A review by thanureads
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

5.0

This book was terribly complex, brilliant and a flaming pile of trash all at the same time. The perspective of the main character was very interesting. He is a very deeply depressed teenager, but the things he felt throughout the book, are what most of us feel on a daily basis, but amplified. In the book, you could feel his terrible need to want, to feel alive. He constantly craved stimulation in the hopes that he would feel anything. But, he somehow seemed to suck the life out of everything he encountered. One word he used a lot was phony. Everything was brilliant, yet at the same time, phony. If part of you could sympathize with him, you would have kept reading, and that's what I did. In the end it made sense, and at the same time it didn't. I had the feeling all along, there would be no real, grand conclusion. It just left a sad, and beautiful impact on me that i don't know how to process.