Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger

I saw this book sitting in the shelf at the bookstore and thanks to a reference from Ghost in the Shell, opened and started reading it, the beginning is very bold and unapologetic so I guess I am going to read it all and then try to figure out what the reference was. So I finished reading it, excellent reading. It seems to be a high school required reading around here so most people have read it or remember the book. I keep finding references to it everywhere, the night I finished reading it The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson had as a guest Chuck Palahniuk author of Fight Club (the book!) was promoting his new book Haunted and the host compared this to The Catcher in the Rye while I was holding the book and reading the last pages.
As for the Ghost in the Shell reference is this quote that repeats over and over as a theme of the show:"I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes". Also one of the recurring characters is called: The Laughing Man, like one of Salinger short stories, interesting enough The Laughing Man is a fictional character inside a fictional story.
Upon a little research I found rumors of a movie being developed, and also movies that took the essence of the character and used to infuse it with some pop resonance (Igby goes Down, and The Good Girl).
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