'Catcher' didn't do it for me

I just got done re-reading The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger. Although I couldn't recall the story line, I remembered I had enjoyed it the first time and picked it up at the bookstore thinking that it would evoke a similar response this time around also. What I didn't take into account was the fact that I was a teenager the first time I read it and probably related to Holden Caulfield's angst, alienation and depression. Show me one teenager that hasn't experienced one of the three in some form or the other.

To be honest, I found it to be quite the drag and was waiting for some kind of a twist or an increase in pace that never occurred. I am sure it was the controversy surrounding it that it did so well when it was published. Remember, it came out during the buttoned-down '50s America.