The Catcher In The Rye

First of all this book doesn't have an index for the chapters or it doesn't have a summary on the back or anything. So you pretty much have no idea what's about to happen, which is a really great idea! It keeps you on your toes. All it has is the copyright stuff that's needed or whatever, "To my mother", and then it just starts. And it starts out with the coolest sentence I believe I've ever heard. It say's, "If you really want to hear about it..." For some reason I think that's the coolest line! It sets the story up like whatever is going on, it is not good or not how he's wanting it to go. This is true.
Holden's life so far is not the best life one would dream of. He had a lousy childhood and nice parents, but they were very touchy and emotional as he stated. The story is taking place at around the time he's getting kicked out of school. Pency that is. It's like a private school and suppose to have great kids in the school, but not so true. This book has a lot of cussing and swearing in it. So you have to get past that in order to read it. And by the way, Holden is a very rebellious kid. As he was talking to one of his teachers, he said he was failing 4 out of the 5 classes he was taking! That's pretty bad. His parents haven't known about him getting kicked out of school yet, and he doesn't plan on telling them until he gets home, which isn't too much longer because it's almost christmas break.
Meanwhile I don't have the slightest clue on what this book is about yet. I can only take a guess. Right before he left school, he got into a fight with his roomate about a girl. Holden actually cared about the girl. He used to play checkers with the girl and she always kept her kings on the back row whenever she got kings. And his roomate didn't really care about anything but sex. And his roomate went on a date with her and it doesn't say anything that he didn't do anything with her but Holden just assumed he did. So they got in a fight and he said something funny. He said, "I told him he didn't care if a girl kept all her kings on the back row". I just thought that was kinda funny.
And that is how far I've got into the book. So I will let you know how good it is when I finish it!