doo78’s Reviews > The Catcher in the Rye > Status Update

Zzzzzzzzzzz

There's definitely some good stuff in here, and it's slowly figuring out its direction. But there's just so much that's pointless and uninteresting. It needs to trim about half of what's written. Maybe you'd be into it if you had curiosity for small and mundane things or just like reading as opposed to stories. But as an experience, it's so dull and slow and bloated. I hope it'll pick up the pace soon.

It's getting better since more things are happening. But I still don't see the point. I mean, there's no goal or conflict or purpose at all. I suspect it might be about consent and relations back then, but that's only a guess since nothing so far has been substantial.

Finally, something happened. I had a suspicion he was gay. Pretty sure that's what happened, right? I hope so because that'd be some well needed spice for this book.

So far, nothing has happened, there have been about ten completely meaningless tangents, and a million 'goddamn', 'and all', and 'sort of''s. Struggling to see why this is such a classic, but I'll wait and see.