After a long time of being on my To Read list, I finally got my hands on Catcher in the Rye and read through it. I read it in fewer than three hours and in two sittings. The truth is that I truly enjoyed the book.
Despite that the era in which the book takes place is not our own, I found that I could connect with the main character. It takes serious guts to write a book from the first person point of view of a mad-man, but to pull it off takes pure skill. Salinger has both.
There is little doubt that Salinger's story is a character story and it is his ability to tell of people in interesting fashions, describing eccentricities more candidly than would be regarded as proper. All this makes for an entertaining and emotional story that breaks hearts and wins laughter with seemingly no effort.
While there was nothing too revolutionary in terms of plot in the book, what there was was a beautiful weave of strong story and stronger character. Take The Grapes of Wrath and remove all the pretension and you'll be left with a story that might be similar to this.
In terms of classics this was really a worthwhile read.
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