Holden Caufield

In my continuing effort to read some important books, I finished The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger.

I didn't like the book. I am doing a little research to see if there was some sub-text, meaning, or english lit crapola that would help me to like this book. I'll be the first to admit that after pages and pages of whining and railing against the phonies in life I was a little numb and might have missed something.

Call me old fashioned or hopeless bourgeois, but I like plot. This book lacked that.

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Holden didn't have to deal with nearly the phonies that I have to deal with.

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