Replied to The cult books that lost their cool (bbc.com)

From the self-indulgent to the tiresomely macho, Hephzibah Anderson chooses her picks of previously hip books that have not aged well.

Although no longer ‘cool’, I sometimes think a book like A Catcher in the Rye become uncanny. Although from another time when the world was different, there are still aspects that prevail today?