Luis's Reviews > The Catcher in the Rye

I tried to read this when I was a teenager and I simply couldn't take all the whining by Holden. Ten years have passed since, and I now have a perspective on how much of a whiner I was. From the first moment, I just couldn't put the book down, and I stayed up until 4 or 5 am to finish it. Obviously, Holden is the prototype of the "modern" teenager, just beating himself up, being good for nothing and wandering around believing that the universe can wait for him. However, the story itself tends to be very, very entretaining, not in the way of a bildungsroman but as a series of fiction events, in which the final can be seen through many over the top prisms (I think of the final of A Clockwork Orange). A good book to enjoy without listening to all the jibber-jabber said about it.