Extraordinary that no-one's made a case for Joseph Heller's Catch-22, phrases from which had seeped into the language on a Shakespearean scale by the 1970s.

Renegade, Amos was dozens of posts ahead of you with "Catcher in the Rye! Was it Holden who was mad, or just the world around him? It's not automatic that he'd get a better deal these days, so maybe the book wasn't as influential as it should have been.