oh Holden Caulfield was despicable, but that's why the book was so good! because Salinger made his narrator/character so horrible you actually learned to love him. I read another book that was similar which was The Ginger Man by JP Donleavy. The narrator is so horrible he makes Holden look like a boyscout, seriously. but the book was so well-written that I kept turning pages.

that's a sign of a great writer!