Not a Classic

I decided last year that I needed to start reading some of the "classics" that a lot of people read in high school but I never did. Last summer I read To Kill a Mockingbird and Of Mice and Men I enjoyed both of them and it helped me for school as well because they are both options that I can teach. This summer I decided on Catcher of the Rye. I remember a few? years ago when J.D. Sallinger died and all of the hoopla surrounding the book and how good it was and blah blah blah. Anyways, I decided that it would be this year's "classic." The premise behind the book has all kinds of potential, a boy gets kicked out of his school and doesn't want to go home to tell his family quite yet so he stays on his own in New York City. (Sorta sounds like Home Alone 2) Well I was disappointed. First the language. Yes there was foul language but that isn't what bothered me, the narrator used the same phrases over and over and over again and that was irritating. It seemed like the same story with just a few details being changed for each chapter. There are some good points to it but not one that I will be recommending to my students or friends.