The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.
So, to this point, I fail to see a coherent plot to the series of events that has happened so far in Holden's story. One thing I can tell you is that this book is almost painful to read. The basic diction and repetitiveness is simply put, frustrating and arduous to grind through. That combined with the fact that none of the story so far seems to have any real plot or value.
"The whole lobby was empty. It smelled like fifty million dead cigars. It really did. I wasn't sleepy or anything, but I was feeling sort of lousy. Depressed and all. I almost wished I was dead. (page 90)"
The disconnected plot events and the diction of a person who speaks in "text language" presents that this story is just trying to catalog what goes through the mind of a teenager who has some real anxiety problems or something.
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