The Catcher in the Rye

Paperback, 240 pages

English language

Published May 1, 1991 by Little, Brown and Company.

ISBN:
978-0-316-76948-8
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ASIN:
0316769487

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Story of Holden Caufield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism. Holden, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story of what he did and suffered there.

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This review is crossposted from my blog here: daariga.wordpress.com/2017/02/19/the-catcher-in-the-rye/

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had heard so much about The Catcher in the Rye being a classic that I had imagined it as an American version of a Dickens novel. Within the few opening lines, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that it was a story narrated by a teenager living in post-WW2 1950s USA! J. D. Salinger’s hero is a certain Holden Caulfield, a rich kid who has just been been kicked out for the umpteenth time from yet another private school. Other than English literature, he has no interest in any other school subject, so flunks causing schools to keep dropping him. His narration in the novel covers a few days of his life before Christmas that year in intimate detail as he struggles to find a direction in his rudderless life.

Holden is the stereotypical angsty US teenager whom …

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Meh. I don't see what the fuss is all about. Maybe the book was controversial in 1950's when it was released, but now it just doesn't seem to hold any gravitas. Holden Caufield seems to hate everyone, feels he's better than everyone else and they're all out to get him. It rambles for the whole book, reads like a self-absorbed self-righteous writing you might find online. The style probably was unique in a repressed era which people didn't share their every thought, but now with social media and everyone sharing everything it just comes across as shallow.

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