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Salinger’s catcher in the rye was shoved down so many of our throats as an adolescent, like so many others in that genre of so called ‘classics’ like Kill a Mockingbird and Lord of the Flies, The Great Gatsby, etc. It took me many re-readings of these so called greats after being able to read them on my own free will, and understand them in my own time, in my own environment, when I was motivated to read that particular subject in a situation that needed it in my life. However I will never fully understand or grasp the grand significance of such a work of fiction, used still in many frosh classes even in the most prestigious of schools, where in today’s market, Rowling’s epic worlds are filled with enough word salad for literature professeurs to salivate over. I found the writing trite, unmotivating, and save the lack of a better word, pretty boring. I remember reading the inserts on ‘A Seperate Piece’ and one of the reviewers called the book one of the most disturbing endings in literature. I still laugh today about that, as I thought A Seperate Piece was excrement, and compare them both to the overhauling of American so-called classics.
Salinger’s book is never a recommendation to any youth that crosses my path. I’d much rather place in their grasp ‘On the Road,’ ‘Farewell To Arms’ or Henry Miller, or a more modern touch of ‘A Perks of Being a Wallflower’ or ‘Everything is Illuminated’, rather than the disgustingly and unnecessarily warranted kudos this book continues to achieve.