For this week's book review we will be going to talk about The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger. I mentioned this book in the post about my favorite all-time classics. I think this is a good book but there were things I didn't like about it. It has a good plot and story line which I think is imperative for a book to be good, but I personally didn't like the ending. Some people say that the ending would have been weird if it wasn't anything other than what it was, but I think it could've been better. It is a coming-of-age book about a teenage boy who feels alienated and is unsure about his sexuality and who he is in general. This novel was originally written for adults in the 1950s and was censored until the 1980s in American schools because it was thought to be a bad influence for teenagers. This was probably an exaggeration because the only things the book talks about that may be categorized as bad influence are smoking and the boy mentions sex in limited occasions. Overall, it's a great book for all of those teenagers that feel weird in society and don't fit in. I think the book makes us understand that feeling different doesn't have to be a bad thing and we just need to be ourselves and ignore what society wants us to be. It shows us to be happy no matter what and if we need to do what Holden Caulfield does to find his place in the world, then we may as well do it. It has a great message and does a good job of showing what adolescents go through. If it wasn't for the ending which I personally didn't like this would be a 10/10 but I'll have to give it a 8/10 for that ending.
"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."
"Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do."
Comments