The catcher in the Rye... SNORE, in the Snore. Simply hated it. Holden is a winy annoying brat who needs a kick in the arse. He has nothing intelligent to say, whilst he constantly complains that no one is intelligent. In one part he meets up with a friend from an old school, saying he was looking for intelligent conversation... the he proceeds to ask about said friends sex life. Hmmm not the most intellectually stimulating conversation.
I simply hated this book. Holden never has me rooting for him, I feel no emotional attachment to his "plight". I fail to see anything that happens to him as extraordinary or even insightful. It isn't even the case of a well written account of the everyday. IMO Holden needs to grow up, and realise that life is playing the game. The lack of pragmatism in his character started to grate on me and I found myself wanting to shout at him to grow up and realise that to succeed you need to dig in and work hard.
I didn't like Salinger's style, being constantly spoken in Holden's voice got irksome fairly quickly, as he has an extremely poor lexicon and tends to be rather repetitive. Holden's grammar also started to irritate me, and the prose being no different to his speech made the whole book rather dull and far too similar for my taste.
I would recommend The Perks Of Being A Wallflower - Chbosky over this. I persevered and was thoroughly underwhelmed.
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