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A review by sheilareads_
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
3.0
“… someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.”
This is the third time I've read Catcher in the Rye. I read it twice previously, in middle school and high school, and both times I thought it was the best book I had ever read.
Now that I'm an adult, I'm not sure what it was about the novel that I found so fantastic. Holden’s woe is me, poor little rich boy act irritated me greatly. I like a good “anti-hero”; characters that lack positive traits and what-not. But he’s just so purposeless. When he did something or thought about doing something I just did not care. His sporadic digressions about the most random topics soon grew tiresome as well.
In high school, I read some of Salinger's other stuff, and I definitely need to reread them again. Salinger’s writing was much more complex in those works, like in Nine Stories and Franny and Zooey. If you don’t like Catcher, read his other stuff.
The book is a classic for a reason. It was revolutionary for its time, and readers of all ages still read and study it today (everyone should definitely read it imo).
This is the third time I've read Catcher in the Rye. I read it twice previously, in middle school and high school, and both times I thought it was the best book I had ever read.
Now that I'm an adult, I'm not sure what it was about the novel that I found so fantastic. Holden’s woe is me, poor little rich boy act irritated me greatly. I like a good “anti-hero”; characters that lack positive traits and what-not. But he’s just so purposeless. When he did something or thought about doing something I just did not care. His sporadic digressions about the most random topics soon grew tiresome as well.
In high school, I read some of Salinger's other stuff, and I definitely need to reread them again. Salinger’s writing was much more complex in those works, like in Nine Stories and Franny and Zooey. If you don’t like Catcher, read his other stuff.
The book is a classic for a reason. It was revolutionary for its time, and readers of all ages still read and study it today (everyone should definitely read it imo).