Book Review: The Catcher In The Rye

I just finished reading one of the most controversial novels of all time The
Catcher In The Rye by J.D.Salinger. and as my earlier book review
received critical comments from some friends of mine , one of which said
" although we are very interested in your likes and dislikes,
but we will still like to know a little about the story as well '
so in this book review i will tell you a little about the plot ,style and all
other crap along with why i liked or disliked the novel.
As i already told u this book is one of the most debated book of all time,
even in my group one friend of mine( you can recognise him by his
trollish looks) considers it as his BIBLE while the other considers it
( in book's most used word) PHONY. while a couple are waiting eagerly
for my opinion , on which side i am going to tilt.

OK Enough of the build up!! the book deals with the mindset,the alienation and the thought process of an adolescent who has just been chucked out of a reputed school and describes the event's in the next couple of day's during which the protagonist literally roams out in the city
calling and meeting his old acquaintances. the book is liberal in use of profanity,abuses, sex , prostitution (so i can't imagine how the hell is it being taught in english and U.S. school).
but all these things sex,profanity all these things are secondary to the plot.

the main thing described in the book is Holden Caulfied , a slightly
touched (I believe!), cynical alienated adolescent who sees everywhere
around the world ,this hypocrisy this phoniness and detests it . You can
see him in the book running away from everything , disliking everything
and you feel that phoniness he sees in others is either imagined or
exaggerated ,and he is slightly scared bcos he is a little abnormal . the
onlything he likes is innocence which you can see from his intense
liking of his sibling Pheobe and his younger brother who had
died young .the writing is as i already told u is full of profanity.

All these things above are the expected and the obvious points of the books , but one other thing the author tried to show according to me was the transistion of this person from a slightly abnormal indviual to an mentally deranged fellow, and the thought process accompanying this transistion . For in the latter part you can see him becoming at time completely insane , scared and running .

Morever the pace is pretty slow at which story moves. The book tends to get a little boring and
repetitive in between ,and one of the best thing about this book is that it is only an odd 200 pages (God help us if it would have been something like 500 pages ). now enough about the book now i am going to tell u about my reaction.

Personally , i thought the book was crap and after 50 pages or so i only read to know wat happened in the end to the character . the end was also such that it could be interpreted in
different ways , and my interpretion was consistent with my other interpretion that the character was slowly becoming mentally deranged . The author just goes on and on about almost the same things , and the book becomes pretty boring in parts. one thing more a friend of mine said, and i totally agreed with him was that a lot of people read this book from a
wrong point of view , they take the protagonist as the hero and correct , which I
am pretty sure was not wat the author was aiming for.

so finally, MY advice don't read it.
and if u want to read it just wat is all the hue and cry about,
read it from a neutral point of view and don't put holden caulfied at the
pedestal at the starting. From there on it's your choice.

wait, one more advice : don't waste your time reading this ,read Fountainhead instead
which is the best damn book i have ever read.
Enough for now.