Catcher in the Rye? More like Boring in the Boring.

By Brad K.
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.
Little, Brown 1951.
214 pages
I totally stole this book from Andrew Wa.
Dagger
(insulting a classic American novel may not get me very positive comments i am sorry in advance.)
Catcher in the Rye is an American classic. No teenager in America hasn’t heard of this book, but my question is why? This book did not interest me in the least bit. I guess that says a lot about my character. I know the Catcher in the Rye is full of symbolism and deep meanings but I guess I’m the kind of guy who wants everything just spelled out for him. I also like a book with a good amount of abnormality and action. Catcher in the Rye was like something I would have to read for a sophomore symbolism project. Call me crazy if I don’t like to read about a boy in New York in the 50s, but it was pretty boring. One thing that really annoyed me was how the book would have so many dead ends. The main character, Holden Caulfield, would think of things and go on with them for about 10 pages, but it would have no relation to the main plot. I’m pretty sure this book was just a contemplation of a bunch of hidden symbolism. In fact I’m not completely sure what the main plot was. It just seemed like an adolescent boy full of angst just doing things that he wants to do. The author could have followed around any normal 16 year old kid and wrote down everything he did, maybe add some symbolism, metaphors, and angst and there you go, Catcher in the Rye. After reading such a boring book it sort of makes me feel ripped off. This book was supposed to be a classic! What happened? I guess I got one good thing out of this. Classics are BORING. (Citizen Kane for example)