Franny and Zooey

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Summary: The interesting plot and profound characters hooked me!
Review: Franny and Zooey is a classic novel that interested me right away. Salanger uses intellect and whit while creating the characters. Throughout the story we see concise insight into the minds of the Glass family. It gave me a new outlook on the world. I recomend it to all!

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Summary: The interesting plot and profound characters hooked me!
Review: Franny and Zooey is a wonderful novel that interested me right away. Salanger uses intellect and whit to create the character. The book gives concise insight into the lives and minds of the Glass family. It gave me a new outlook on the world. I recomend it to all!

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Summary: Read it for school and enjoyed it.
Review: "Franny and Zoe" was an excellent book. J.D. Salinger wonderously described a brother and sister searching for meaning in their lives through religion. I enjoyed the book and recommend it to anyone who likes J.D. Salinger's writing.

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Summary: Look no further. All is here.
Review: This is, hands down, the greatest book of all time. Don't love it because you loved Catcher in the Rye, please. Don't love it because it is another trial in the Glass Family saga. Love it because the man, the myth, the genius -- JD Salinger, can make you feel. His words describe situations like no other in his time. Just the last page, when Franny lies back in the bed with all or none of the knowledge in the world belonging to her -- that is poetry! Read this book!! I implore you! You won't be sorry... you will thank me, and this legendary scholar who searched for inspiration himiself, and allowed us to find it in him.

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Summary: Mirror Mumbling
Review: I was drawn into this book, from the very first page, by Salinger's word dropping: Yale and collegiate. These points of reference are then essentially proved to be the antagonistic societal thresh-holds by which we are held captive. Salinger cares about his readers, by allowing them to hear his upmost intellectual and spiritual thoughts, but at the same time, he doesn't care if the reader can't keep up with his ramblings. This book delves deeply into the oxymoronic American society of faux-intellectuals, by showing Franny as the unassuming and confused epitome of reality in thought. At the same time, I feel Salinger is actually mocking himself, and her, and notably the reader. This is, without a doubt, an intense voluntary, literary sword-fight between us and him. Franny's key to life lies not only within herself, but within her family, within God, and within nothing. It's hard to describe this (i.e. no cliff notes), as it is hard to describe how much I incidentally adored this book.

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Summary: This book is about a disfunctional family.
Review: Franny and Zooey is a deep book about a disfunctional family. Franny is a young college student who becomes obsessed with reading and reciting prayers from her "Jesus Prayer Book". She has just had a nervous break down after a short visit with her boyfriend, Lane, away at school. During the second story, she is struggling with her relationship with her mother, her brother Zooey, and her obsession with her prayer book. Also in the second story, her brother Zooey tries to help Franny by trying to make her realize that her obsession with this prayer book is unhealthy. He says that it is superficial. Throughout the book, the family members struggle to cope with one another.

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Summary: its like turning on a light in your SOUL
Review: when i read this for the first time, i was disapointed it was not more like catcher in the rye. Now at 18, and in college, i feel, like so many girls in my position, that I am zooey. I identitfy with her more than any other literary figure i can name. In college you absorb everything, and you feel everything 1000 times more than any other tome of your life. Salinger perfectly captures this in his story.

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Summary: give Salinger another chance
Review: If you, like me, hated Catcher in the Rye, PLEASE do yourself a favor and take another look at Salinger. This work is cynical like Catcher but it has an underlying theme of deep love and intelligence. Insightful Salinger knows people, knows the world, and presents his views succinctly and humorously. It's dry, it's a slice of another world. Short and delightful.

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Summary: Missing Message?
Review: I read this book and really enjoyed it, but am also curious if there is some message that I am missing. I was a little upset at the end and wished that there had been more, but after stepping away from the book, I can accept the ending.

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Summary: Shine your shoes for the fat lady.
Review: Stop this! This instant! Stop. Stop. Just listen to him. Stop commenting. You all prove his points. Don't you see? Stop the misguided glorification. Stop the petulant bickering. Stop it. Vomit up the apple. That is the message in this book. We all wake up when we die, right? So stop it. Please. Jerome David Salinger is not Christ. Seymore is not Christ. Buddy is not saying they are. But they see Christ in everyone. The fat lady, remember? Shine your shoes for the fat lady.