The Catcher In the Rye Review

The Verdict:  After reading The Catcher in the Rye I have decided to give up on reading the classics. Yawn city.

Just the Facts:  I'm not honestly sure what prompted me to read The Catcher in the Rye.  I think it was all the people who raved about it.  Perhaps the feeling that I should read it simply because it is a classic.  Not sure.  But what I am sure about is that I really disliked this book.

The Catcher in the Rye is the story of Holden Caulfield; a well-off teenager who has flunked out of yet another private school.  The book is basically a diary of the two days he spends after leaving school and going home to his family and the situations in which he becomes involved.

The book, at first, was good.  But I kept waiting for something really bad or really interesting to happen. Something that would make me stand up and say "Aha!  I understand why this is such a beloved story!"  Unfortunately that never happened and all I got was the continuing, rambling, boring story of Holden the loser who cannot keep his brain focused on one thought for longer than 2 seconds. 

Closing Argument: For its time this book was very controversial due to the swearing, underage drinking, and general teenage rebellion.  I guess it was the 1940s equivalent of Go Ask Alice.  All I know is that this 2000s reader was bored, bored, bored.  2 stars.