Vickie V. reviewed on 2/21/2010 + 3 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 1

I have heard for years and years that this is one of the greatest works ever written. I never had to read it in high school so I bought it as an adult and read it within a few hours. I personally don't know what all the hype is about. I found the main character annoying, vulgar and repetitive. Annoying and vulgar I can understand because of his age and he was acting like a typical teenager. But the repetitiveness was really annoying. The same exact description was used for two different (nightclub/bar) scenes (which was common throughout the book). Holden kept saying the same things over and over again when describing people. I kept thinking "OK. I know the girls at the club were ugly. How many times do you have to keep telling me that?" It just felt like Salinger didn't have much to say so the quick fix was to repeat himself to make the book longer.

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