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Reading this book for the first time in my 40’s has reminded me how strong the sense of insecurity and how potentially wide the gap between innocence and growing up can seem to be to a young person. The protagonist is a misfit, is at the brink of his adulthood, senses he is about to lose something unique as he leaves his childhood world for good but is not sure what and flails wildly in his attempt to grasp what life is about. I started off disliking the book: the language, the events happening to him, his reactions to those events. But before I reached half-way through the book, I felt sorry for the boy, who came across as sensitive and scared. Three-quarter of the book, I worried for him and wondered if there’s light at the end of his tunnel. By the time I finished reading the book, I thought it a tale told by an idiot, full of sound of fury. Of course it does not compare with Macbeth or Hamlet, but it is none the less a tragically realistic story, touchingly told by an honest and eloquent idiot. (It does remind me of Mark Haddon’s THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME, except the ailment here is depression and not autism. So if you like THE CURIOUS INCIDENT, you will probably like THE CATCHER.)

I think it is a good story told by a good story-teller. It is both a period piece and timeless: Deciphering the American slangs in vogue during that time period has slowed down my reading quite a bit, yet the story is one that can, and probably does, happen in any country through out history. It is an interesting read only if the reader will not be depressed by narratives from a troubled mind.
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