CATCHER IN THE RYE Mass Market Paperback – 1 May 1991

A random fella admired it on YouTube saying that this is one of the seven must read books you oughtta read before U die! So I read it. And I didn't regret it. It's corny, heart warming, simple, spontaneous and straight. Yes you will identify with Golden Caulfield, that I bet. It take guts to write stuff like this. I felt this is his own life story, a peek! JD Salinger, yes.

Good book :)

The story felt real — confused, lonely, and trying to make sense of a world that didn’t feel right. The Catcher in the Rye hits deep if you’ve ever felt a little lost growing up.

It is about a 16 year old boy named Holden Caulfield. It tries to explore the minds of tennagers and what they feel like about people, places, things, relations, movies, sports etc.Holden has an attitude of indifference, cynicism and loneliness which have been portrayed in this book. For him this world is full of phoney, bore, moron and depressing people..Also very apt discussion about the teenage age where you don't have idea where you want to go, what you want to do in your life, what do you like, who are your real friends? Holden feels so much lonely that he sort of invites anybody to join him for a conversation be it cab driver, nun, bar dancers, piano player or anybody..this shows the feeling of emptiness during teenage. After a few minutes interaction, he always classify people as moron, bored and phoney and just want to end the conversation or meeting.It's good and different read but to be honest not that much fascinating as it seemed from other reviews. Book for teenagers or the students of human psychology as they can related many things with the main character 'Holden'.

Paper quality is good

I received the book in a very good condition the print and the cover are all fine 🖤Thanks Amazon for your great service oh yeah and i got this package 4 days earlier.

There's quite a bit of printing mistake here and there but the page quality makes up for it. I prefer hardcover over paperback so I got hardcover for myself. And of course the book in itself, is amazing.

The catcher in the rye is the first and last novel of J.D Salinger, originally published in 1951. The story is about a 16 year old teenager, Holden Caulfield, who gets expelled from his school Pencey and not wanting to go home, he stays outside and wanders along, trying to fit in the adult world. But through his endeavors, he realizes the hypocrisy of it and ends up being exhausted and emotionally unstable. The story details his life in two days and in these 2 days, we come to meet a lot of characters with whom Caulfield has to deal with. Though he mixes up well with everyone, he finds it difficult to make friends and like anyone from his heart. Everything and everyone is phony, according to him and amidst this 'phoniness', he finds himself lost and depressed.One thing to note, he didn't get depressed 'After' being exposed to the real world, rather he has been depressed since his brother Allie died and over the years, he started to question his existence.I really liked the way teenage angst is shown through a language, very raw and informal. The interior monologues of Holden, are described to well, it felt so real and like living the story, feeling the pain and the angst of him. I also liked the character of his sister Phoebe who is a little kid of 10 year old and is more mature than Holden himself is. She understands him well and listens to his problems. Holden talks more when she is with him and it was her who played a major role in bringing back the lost self of Holden. (to some extent?) This book has some major themes including the alienation, fragmentation, lost innocence and hypocrisy of post modern times that Salinger has beautifully captured.Highly, recommended💓"That's the whole trouble. You can't even find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking, somebody will sneak up and write "f*ck you' right under your nose."