Miguel+V

=Miguel V's 9th Grade Book Review= media type="file" key="miguelv-bookreview-0910.mp3" width="240" height="20" If you're a teenager and tired of all the "phony" people in your life such as teachers and a bunch of other adults who think they know everythng. And a bunch of kids who think that they are all bad-ass. And if you're at that stage transitioning from childhood to adulthood and having a tough time going through it than this book is for **YOU!!!** This book is about a kid named Holden Caulfield who has failed out of 3 schools and is about to fail out of his fourth due to his apathy, and tendency of thinking that almost everyone on earth is a "phony". He also lost of his brother's to luekemia, Then he thinks that his older brother D.B. soldmout to be a writer in Hollywood, but the only character that Holden truly connects with is his younger sister, Phoebe. She knows her brother sometimes even better than himself sometmes. Throughout the whole book he is trying to make the transition between childhood and adulthood. He wants to be and adult but at the same time he doesn't because he believes that being an adult will automatcally make you a "phony". And that being a kid is the source of all truthfullness and innocence. Holden later mentions that he wants to be "The Catcher in the Rye", which I'm guessing means that he wants to keep kids from losing their innocence and from falling off a cliff to adulthood. One of the things I like about this book is about someone I can relate to way more than any other book I've ever read. One of the reasons why that is, is because the main character is a teenager and not some people that you can't picture being George and Lennie in "Of Mice and Men". Since he's a teenage boy he thinks about all the things that teenagers think about friends, girls, sex and a whole bunch of adults that think they know what they're talking about. Another thing I like about this book is that the diolouge actually sounds like I'm reading a teenager's journal or something. Probably the most important thing in this book that I like was that it touched on that of adolescent sex. I'm glad J.D.Salinger didn't hesatate, and decided to go there and talk about that. My favorite part of the book was that when a elevator operator offered a hooker for Holden, then afterwards the elevator operator went to his room and punched him in the face. Another thing I like is that they put that fight scene there, and before when Holden got into a fight with his roomate over a girl and Holden got a bloody nose. Lastly, the thing I like the most about this book is that it's just a story about a troubled teenager trying to figure out his way through life, just like everyone else. That is why that this book is so relatable to many people to of my age. I think that everyone should read this book because everyone at one point in their life was a teenager, and for tht reason I think everyone can be able to resonate with this book. I think that this may be the most compelling and simply the best book I've ever read.