The Worst Book of all Time

The Worst Book of all Time

I have read many books in my time, some alright and meh, and some that change my life on how amazing they were, even going back to reread them at times on rare occasions. I never have really hated a book… until this year. Hop on a rant session of a lifetime as I will be talking about the one book I hate most. 

“Catcher in the Rye” is a book we were forced to read in English four. People often refer to school as ‘torture.’ However, never in my life have I believed that till this book. The amount of crap that was in each page about something the main character disliked or cried about was crazy. It was like listening to someone rant about something, which is fine, but for an entire 270 page long book. It was mentally exhausting to hear him complain about things people do normally or things that made zero sense. Sure, at the near end he realized that he should be a better person, but crawling through the amount of sh*t that was the entire book just to get to an alright end is bittersweet. 

Things that the main character would do is stalk nearby neighbors when doing “dirty deeds” on numerous occasions. He would also pick fights he wouldn’t win and push those people’s buttons to the point of where he gets beaten to a pulp. Don’t even get me started on how he treated women, it was like they were objects to him. When he tried to make up with an old friend, he made a mess of himself and tried to run off with a lady as if he didn’t care about her plans in life, but when she said no, he insults and laughs at her, making her cry and leave. I don’t know if this was based on a real story or not, I am too mad to figure it out. It also didn’t help with how he smoked over 50 packs of cigarettes in the entire book (which was around a week long) and got himself drunk numerous nights. 

I am not sure why this is even a school book, it shouldn’t have been made and shouldn’t have the amount of attention it has for being a “famous” book.