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A review by thotfitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
5.0
This was my great-Grandfather's favourite book.
At first I wasn't connecting with Holden. His actions seem absurd and there was nothing to make me sympathetic to him. However, as the book progresses, Salinger expands on Holden's thought processes and I found myself not just understandings Holden, but realizing how alike we are. We are all impulsive, absurd, immature, rude, cruel. The largest difference between us and the people we see as childish idiots are impulse control and the ability to think things through.
At first I wasn't connecting with Holden. His actions seem absurd and there was nothing to make me sympathetic to him. However, as the book progresses, Salinger expands on Holden's thought processes and I found myself not just understandings Holden, but realizing how alike we are. We are all impulsive, absurd, immature, rude, cruel. The largest difference between us and the people we see as childish idiots are impulse control and the ability to think things through.