The Dystopian Uncertainty Principle

Very American. Very much New Yorky. Classic Salinger humour yet incredibly tedious and unending. Even though, the principle characters are young adults or are in their late teens, much of the book and story didn't feel relatable. Increasingly snobbish like Salinger's stories,  even more so than 'The Catcher in the Rye", the book feels like it is trying hard to sound intellectual and elite, with an out of the world air of superiority but fails to even scratch the surface. This struggle is quite evident to the reader. To cut short, a very boring read thankfully interjected by classic wit in between although sparsely, which made me laugh out loud in between the pages. This small book also took me around 60-70 odd days to complete and left me exhausted but finally with a sign of relief on completion. For comparison, I recently read Mohsin Hamid's brilliant 2nd Person narrative Novel with the facade of a self-help book, "How to get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia...