you only really understand it when you're young, and you're stupid, and you're immature, and you've got no idea what's going on in the world. it's almost a privilege to have read it at the age i'm at now, 18, freshly an adult. i started reading it right before my 18th birthday. it was practically the best timing there is.

holden is annoying, cocky, and pretentious. he has an ego the size of dinosaurs. but, every teenager is that way. every. single. one. and you lose sight of that as you grow older and begin to hate everything you did when you were young.

holden is the epitome of teenage. of the blurred line between childhood and adulthood. the book makes no sense. it's just some story about some kid doing some shit. but that's what makes it so good. you really feel like you're reading about a human being. a very young one at that, feeling like a ghost. 

that's it. that's all i have to say. i have so many thoughts about this book but i don't know how to put it into words that make any kinda sense.