I also like this book. I really just ignore the criticisms about how Holden is a whiny teenager. I mean I was whiny when I was a teenager, and everyone I knew was whiny when they were teenagers. And teenagers I see nowadays are whiny. I think that's just how teenagers are because they are still immature yet are already starting to have adult responsibilities. I remember when I first got my job I was really really annoyed at the fact that for the rest of my life, I will get just around two rest days a week. Nowadays (I'm almost 30 now), I don't even take a full day off (on some days, i just work for less than half a working day), and I don't complain.

It's weird that people read a book about a teenager and criticize it since the said teenager is whiny. It's like reading a book about a serial killer and complaining when that serial killer kills people.