. . . "Last Friday, Jessica Roake over at Slate lamented the fall of Holden Caulfield in the esteem of modern teenagers ??? ???The problem is that Catcher in the Rye is no longer a book for cool high school students,??? she writes. ???Catcher in the Rye is a book for cool high school teachers.??? A host of factors have added to the books current lack of cool, the most important probably being its ubiquit" .