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Summary: Unsatisfying
Review: ... Plus i enjoyed The Catcher In The Rye and To Esme With Love And Squalour so i thought i'd see if this one was up to the same standards. It tells the story of Franny and Zooey, brother and sister from a precocious family of radio stars. Franny seems to have a nervous breakdown and turns a bit religious, and spends much of the book lying on a couch crying and repeating "Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me" in an attempt to find spiritual fulfillment, while Zooey offers her his heartfelt advice. I didn't fancy this book much, I thought The Catcher In The Rye was a far superior portrayal of youthful alienation and dissatisfaction and the way the characters spoke was really irritating me by the end. Plus it was awful short. I like a book you can get stuck right into, not one that you can read in about an hour and a half. However if you're torn between watching crappy daytime TV and reading this book, you should definetely read the book.
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Summary: Too much preaching...
Review: I enjoyed reading the backround to the Glass children, as well as the snappy dialouge between Zooey and his mother. However, it seems at times to drift off from two characters having a conversation to long winded comments on religion. Of Salinger's work I have read "Catcher in the Rye" and "Nine Stories", I'd recommend them both over this.
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Summary: This book was very confusing
Review: Maybe I wasn't really paying attention as I read this book, but I found FRANNY & ZOOEY to be very, very confusing. The only things I really understood where the Jesus prayer and the situation of Seymour Glass. I lost the inner meaning (if there was one) of this book along the way, and I found this book to be pretty confusing. But the parts I did understand were good. So, 3 stars.
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Summary: A much warmer "Catcher in the Rye"
Review: I read Catcher in the Rye just before entering high school, but I didn't really like it. The only part I liked was the end with Holden and his younger sister. So I didn't pick up "Franny & Zooey" because I was a Salinger fan. Actually, it was because a character in a book I really loved had read it. It was supposed to be my "on the plane to Florida" book, but I barreled through it the day after I bought it. Imagine my surprise when it was everything I loved about "Catcher".
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Summary: Wow...
Review: Franny and Zooey confirmed in my mind the genius of J.D. Salinger as a storyteller. The Catcher in the Rye is exceptional, but Franny and Zooey is Salinger's masterpiece. The novel is gorgeous in both its simplicity and its honesty. I can't praise it enough. Everyone should read it. Everyone. Although undeserving books have been toted as brilliant, this one lives up to the hype. At face value, it's a book about young people and religion. There is, however, a much deeper message. The characters of Franny and Zooey answer all of Salinger's questions from his other works about society and human relationships. It addresses the conventional institutions of family, religion and education. I read this book at least three times each year and discover something new with each reading. Order it now. You'll be glad you did.
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Summary: Franny and Zooey
Review: This is an amazing book; it is one i read usually at least twice a year. I won't bother with plot summary, you can find that elsewhere. I will say that the first time i read it, there were times that i felt it was dull, and almost put it down, but it only gets better. By the time i was through it, i couldn't believe i ever doubted it. It is a book to read if you want questions presented, not answers. I think the point of the book, and much of the discussions between franny and zooey, is the questions, not necessarily the resolutions. This is a book that grows with a person. A book that srtikes a new chord every time I read it. I reccommend it highly to anyone at all. It's a deep book, but reads like a light novel. It leaves you thinking about things naturally, you don't find yourself irritated and struggling to deseipher the meaning; you long to desipher it. You crave to understand it, which is why this book is an investment. This is not a book you read once and forget. It ia a book you read for the first time over and over again.
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Summary: "you might like this book," ..."It's so simple, I mean."
Review: i read this book at least once a month.
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Summary: too much dialogue
Review: Good, yeah. But the pontification of the characters gets a little tedious, and I found myself losing interest here and there. Good and poignant points are made, and overall a good effort, but not quite a page turner
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Summary: curse that salinger
Review: yes, curse him.
he reminds me of one of those alogether fancy dining places, where you receive the most wonderful tasting things you have ever dreamed of devouring, and yes, they appear in the right portions, and leave you satisfied when done...
but oh, to continue to eat them over and over, for all eternity that is how i feel about salinger
the man takes the first 40 or so pages, franny, to describe basically an incident of eating lunch, which foreshadows the later portion of the book. however, in forty pages, he is realistically describing for the most part, about a half hours worth of time, and it is all enthralling. gladly gladly would i read this book again, just as i am set to soon embark on going back through catcher in the rye, and it occurs to me, much like that wonderfully delictable fare at the extravagant resturaunt, that as good as it is when you know what is coming, the element of surprise at salingers masterfullness can not be topped anyone loving quality descriptive prose, needs to read this.
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Summary: Salinger at his best
Review: I fell in love with J.D. Salinger after reading A Catcher in the Rye in school. The next year, we read Nine Stories, and I knew that he would be my favorite author forever. I went to the bookstore and bought everything else he had written (which isn't much), and I started with Franny and Zooey. What an incredible story. The reason that this book is so moving and important is that it deals with spirituality in a very serious way, yet it can be interpreted in an infinite number of ways. I related to the young protagonists because they, like myself, after being bombarded with a quite serious religious education, are able to forge out their own personal ideas of spirituality. I suggest this book to anyone, everyone can relate to it in some way. A++
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