Maybe it doesn’t make me want to rush out and shoot someone who I consider a phoney,Bono is too obvious,but it does make me want to reread every couple of years.Simply a must read of English Literature.

It got kinda of tiring reading a curse word every other sentence but other than thought it was an entertaining read and had some funny parts to it.

I like the part where he explains how tiring it is to listen to some blow hard rave on about how important he is because he donoted a bunch of money or such. It reminds me of that commercial where the guy is sitting in the expensive car and shouting out the window “Beacuse I make more money than you”.

I know that most people in America are impressed with money or prestige and that they assume it makes the man or woman. For me I judge people on personality alone, are they happy with life and with themselves. If they are you have usually found a very interesting person to talk to and get to know.

I found the main character a little to childish and cynical. He really hit the nail on the head about how fake people can be though.

I should have read this book when I was younger, the angst and cynicism although I recall and slightly related to, the majority of it was lost on me, and found it quite annoying. Although I did like one section of the novel saying that life was a game but only fun if you were on the winning side “but if you get on the other side, where there aren’t any hot-shots, then what’s a game about? Nothing. No game”

I like this book not because I relate to Holden, although really most people can remember some brief period in their younger days when they were like him. Everyone assumes that to like this book you should like the main character, but the point is totally to not be like him. He’s cynical, inert, and definitely immature; he is like a side of me that I could easily let loose, but to push him aside is more rewarding, which I think is a main point here. I’m not quite sure if I’m making sense but I think that’s why I like it maybe? Plus it’s a fairly gentle read and it has its funny moments…

Finally getting around to giving this book a whirl after buying King Dork—in which it seems to figure promniently—which was recommended by Bookslut and stocked at the local indie store.

I never read this in high school, and I really wanted to read it. So I finally picked it up. I just didn’t get it. This is a classic? I didn’t like Holden. And not just that I didn’t like him….I didn’t care about him at all. I wish I still hadn’t read it.

Either you like it or you don’t.

99% of the time when someone says they love it .. it’s always followed by “I could relate to Holden/it spoke to/of me” etc. and that’s possibly the appeal of it .. where you can put yourself in his shoes.

I think one tends to not like it because they don’t “get” it – they can’t relate to Holden. As for me .. I didn’t get it. It was dull, after I finished it was a throw-book-across-room moment and it made me go “This is a classic?!”. Enough said.

I enjoyed this when I read it in HS 30 years ago, but I tried to read it again when it was assigned to my 8th grader. It sucks. I couldn’t finish it.

This is a book my friend give me so it helps me to get out of this depression thing, I’ve started reading it last night and i like it,
i have a face for the main character, only that is too sad that it just has one handsome side.

Why is it that psychos tend to be reading this book when the police come and pick them up for whacking someone?