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Summary: Catcher overrated- Glass family books J.D.'s best
Review: dum-de-dum. Don't expect another "Catcher" and you'll like it I suppose.
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Summary: A beauty
Review: First of all I must say that Franny & Zooey is one of those books that I "love to death". I got it out of the library three times and before deciding to buy it because I was getting weird looks (nah). I am appreciating it more and more every time I read it. Next, a recommendation: If you liked Franny & Zooey you should perhaps read Oscar Wilde's De Profundis because it is about love, too, and also "hinges on mysticism". That and because Dr. Suzuki also mentions it in one of his essays...
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Summary: Wanna Know More about Life's Big Questions? Read this Book.
Review: If you can ignore the circa 1950's preoccupation with post WW II literature and media, as well as the widespread and annoying tobacco abuse, this book is a timeless classic. Frannie is Struggling With Life's Big Questions, and turns to the Jesus Prayer. Zooey's dialogue with his sister Frannie packs centuries of religious insight and reconciles the Prayer and the search for the purpose of life with our modern age. It may be low calorie Religion, but it makes its point. The close of the book has the sublime clarity of one hand clapping. Salinger's style of writing is pure joy for the reader. He weaves his sentences with images and anecdotes - literary detours that not only amuse, but clarify. How can the author of such a compelling work turn out to be such a misanthrope?
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Summary: My All Time Favorite Book
Review: I've read it six times in the past 18 years
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Summary: What is Good Fiction?
Review: A great read with insights, that if one chooses, can redirect ones path in life. It's unfortunate that JDS has not written more.
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Summary: J.D.'s most brilliant work
Review: I love all Salinger (except maybe Seymour: An Introduction), but this is and always will be my absolute favorite. Salinger's ear for dialouge and eye for detail make F&Z a work of poetry. Anyone who finds it 'too boring' or 'too complicated' would probably be better off reading John Grisham or perhaps Danielle Steele.
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Summary: I can't believe this book!
Review: Everyone always told me never to read anything by Salinger except Catcher in the Rye because it was all anticlimax, but wow! I'm glad I didn't listen. I saw so much in this that reminded me of my own life; for anyone who is at all introspective and/or has ever felt disconnected from society or his present self, I recommend this book. It's incredible!
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Summary: strange, convoluted book
Review: maybe it's just me, but I just didn't get this book. it's too heavy and deep. it didn't make any sense to me. it's also boring in a lot of parts!
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Summary: Inspiring real beautifully simple
Review: This is the thing about all of Salinger's stuff - you read it and then you believe in the people he writes about, and they've GOT to exist out there somewhere, how can they NOT? I read Franny on the train one day and I honestly thought I was reading about my life. Extract from my diary that day: "Wow. I read the best book 'Franny' by my man J D Salinger, basically about this couple going out for lunch and exposing their incompatibilities. And I can see so much of me and [my ex] in it, have to get him to read it, though he'd hate it coz he hates J D Salinger, which goes to show we're incompatible really but I didn't like to think that." So there I was, raving and raving about it, and I leant it to a friend once and her comment was 'Well, nothing really happens' How can you say that? Maybe nothing material, but that's exactly what it's all about. If you want superficial action, read trash, which is far from this. So it's all about the spirit but that's so much more interesting and inspiring and anything more is not the point, it's the way Salinger writes it, it's the way everything's so real and you know exactly what he means. You just have to appreciate the beautiful simplicity and not be dragged down by this modern materialism, which is just what the book's getting at. And if you've missed that you'll never get it.
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Summary: a real page-turner
Review: You may have read other books by J.D. Salinger, but you're missing out if you haven't read Franny and Zooey. This story is split into two sections and is based on a dysfuntional family, the Glasses. Franny, the youngest of seven, is a college-aged girl who is obsessed with reciting the Jesus Prayer. Throughout the book we learn that Franny is in self-crisis, and how her family members cope. As a teenager I was able to relate with her character, and this made the book so much more enjoyable. Yet another well written novel by Salinger...
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