Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
240 pages
A
copy of this literary classic has been languishing on my shelf for years, so that’s
why I chose it as my July read for my 2018 Reading Resolution (I picked 12
books to read that having been in my library for ages). Most people I know had
to read this in high school, but growing up in Arkansas, we didn’t have summer
reading lists.
And
now I know why I’ve been putting it off for years…what a drag of a story. I
realize that the story is only three days and nights in the life of sixteen-year-old
Holden Caulfield, but omg, what a whiner.
There
is one consolation to this story of Holden’s New York adventures after he gets
expelled from yet another prep school: teenage angst has changed since Salinger
published this in 1951. The biggest difference is that instead of goddamn,
teenagers today use the F-bomb and the MF word.
And the way he called every "old [their name]," drove me up a wall.
“Catcher in the Rye” receives 1 out of 5 stars
in Julie’s world.
