J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye Review

Overall Rating

A Catcher in the Rye. An interesting read. I personally got quite bored of the long and quite useless descriptions of, say, a piece of clothing. By the last few chapters i was annoyed by the writing style and how Holden, the main character, thinks. He is very depressing and believes everything is 'phony'. I have read that this book represents youth and childhood. I think that it is inaccurate and Salinger probably didn't understand at all how we think.
Saying all this i must admit that i didn't put the book down and, for some weird reason, liked the way Holden just wandered around New York. The descriptions were bad but it was spontaneous and that kept me hooked.