This book is one of the first books that actually have made me change my way of thinking. It is unlike any book I have ever read. The sad part about it is that you have to be a certain type of person in order for this book to change you. In fact, you have to be a certain type of person just to like the book. And I did. I liked it, very much.
             Before I tell you what this book really meant to me, and what I got out of it I must say this: Everyone that I told I was reading The Catcher In The Rye warned me so much. They didn't really warn me, they sort of prepared me, or so they thought. They said, "Oh God, have fun, that is the most boring book." Or "I heard that that book is so boring." It is sad that I ever asked those people for their opinion of this book because if they hadn't of told me that I probably would've started reading it sooner.
             Now that that is all out of the way, I must tell you that from the first page of reading this, I could tell this was no ordinary book. You see, this book is not about some narrator telling a story that has a point. I mean, it has a point but not a clear one. The book isn't about one story. It isn't about one specific event that changed someone's life, or about someone falling in love. None of that. It is about a person. It is about Holden Caufield. Holden is a very honest person. He flat out tells you what he's thinking throughout the entire book, and the book, though 214 pages, is only over a 4 day time period.
             The story starts out with Holden getting kicked out of another college called Pencey and it is about 3 days before everyone is let out for Christmas break. Through the story he had encounters with old "acquaintances", stays in crummy hotels and does whatever he can to take up time before he has to go home on Wednesday to break the news to his parents that he was cut from another school.
             Sallinger really reveals true...