Sam Reviews "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger

Mostly I'm just confused.  The story wasn't bad, though I did find the writing style challenging at times.  The writing style honestly reminded me of American Psycho which is another book I didn't necessarily love.   I'm so curious why this is considered such a classic and necessary part of do many literature curriculums.

"What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by. I mean I've left schools and places I didn't even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse."

I guess "giving a girl the time" used to be a euphemism for sex.

"Almost everytime somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad."

"Sensitive. That killed me. That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as a goddam toilet seat."

"I gave her a good look. She didn't look like any dope to me. She looked like she might have a pretty damn good idea what a bastard she was the mother of. But you can't always tell--with somebody's mother, I mean. Mothers are all slightly insane."

"I had her glued to her seat. You take somebody's mother, all they want to hear about is what a hot-shot their son is."

"That's the thing about girls.  Every time they do something pretty even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are."

"I never did find out what the hell was the matter.  Some girls you practically never find out what's the matter."

"New York's terrible when somebody laughs on the street very late at night.  You can hear it for miles.  It makes you feel so lonesome and depressed."

"The thing is, it's really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs - if yours are really good ones and theirs aren't.  You think if they're intelligent and all, the other person, and have a good sense of humor, that they don't give a damn whose suitcases are better, but they do."

"[Money] always ends up making you blue as hell."

"All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to."