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Summary: Four days in a cool and sensitive guy's life
Review: I think it is a book that at first glance is easy to read and understand. Although it might seem a simple story without a hard argument if you concentrate in his feelings and become Holden while you are reading it, it is full of sense. As an anecdote I have to say that I started reading it in Spanish, a year ago, and I stopped because I didn't like it. Now, my teacher has made me read it and I have enjoyed it a lot. I think Holden represents all teenagers who are confused,happy and sad at the same time, and who think too much about everything.
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Summary: Best book you've ever read? Read some more...
Review: I think it's really funny that most of this book is devoted to examining "phonies". Holden is a "phony". This is quite useful information if you prefer to search for meaning in the book; it allows Salinger to say two things at once: e.g.-he points out the phoniness around us, while at the same time decrying the hypocracy of American culture (pointing out phoniness when we ourselves are phony). Pretty interesting, but it doesn't stack up against the more interesting, meaningful, and longer studies of culture that followed, i.e. Catch-22, The Recognitions, Gravity's Rainbow, and Infinite Jest.
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Summary: The first (and best) coming-of-age novel
Review: I think people who criticize this book (and Holden himself) for being trite or self-indulgent or whatever are forgetting just how revolutionary Catcher was at the time it was published. No one had written a book like this before. No one had bothered with the confused, imperfect, wise-beyond-his-years, yet painfully inexperienced teenage point-of-view. Since then, we've been inundated with Salinger imitators in all areas of entertainment--books, tv and film. All of these archetypal copies have, unfortuntely, undermined just how unique this story, and this character really are. This is not just the first modern coming-of-age novel, but the finest.
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Summary: T oo real and intimate to be a book !!
Review: I think quite a few of the reviewers here have missed the point about what this book was all about. And the reasons for it becoming the sort of cult classic among young people... For me this book has always been too intimate and real to review objectively in a literary way. When you read it... it's like your own private thoughts are being opened out and put on paper for the world to analyse and amuse themselves with. I don't know about the background and the context in which the author wrote the book but it seemed like I was going through my own diaries of adoloscent years. Disturbing, dark, a sense of endless isolation... a brilliant, inspired work.
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Summary: Catcher in the Rye
Review: I think someone forced to read this book [for school] is not going to enjoy it as well as if you read it on your own. I haven't been asked to read the book for school, but I read it in my own time and enjoyed it. Reading it for a class, I think, would have ruined it for me. Holden is easy to relate with. He's a thinker. You share his thoughts throughout the book and I found myself agreeing with the majority of them. Though it was a fantastic book, I don't think it deserved as much acclaim as it did. I don't think it was a work of genius or a hard book to write. In my opinion, it read almost like a journal, almost. A journal where you are revealed every detail and every thought. If you were to reach into your mind and dig out your inner thoughts, I'd almost garantee you that they would match up easily with Holden's.
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Summary: It is easy to identify with Holden
Review: I think that "Catcher in the rye" is one of the greatest books ever. I could easily indentify with every character in the book. Holden says or think somthing that is so true and I have felt that same way but was never able to put in words. I am constantly quoting it, like I will pull a hat over my head and ask mother darling to give me her hand. But before you do anything like that, you better make sure the people around have read the book or you will end up just looking like an idoit. After reading the book I found that I had adapted holden's remarks. For weeks I said goddamn constantly.I also kept saying that stuff "Killed me". It is a remarkable book and everyone should read it. I have read it about a thousand times.
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Summary: A very good, and deep book
Review: I think that at first, this book might just seem like any other book, but for school I had to make an analysis of the book. I soon discovered that their are tons of hidden meaning, and hidden messages that might not be found if you read the book once through. Holden is a lost boy who only really likes children because of their innocense.
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Summary: The Best Book I Have read
Review: I think that Catcher In the Rye is the best book that I have read. My favorite part is the message of what the catcher in the rye really means.
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Summary: Read it first without the reviews
Review: I think that part of the reason people can hate this book so much is because they began with a preconceived notion of what it was already about. I read it with barely any knowledge on it - I knew it was a famous classic, but I didn't know anything as to its plot or characters or adolescent cynicism, and it turned out to be one of the best books I've ever read.Not because I felt like Holden Caulfied was a great guy or my friend, I probably couldn't stand him as a friend. He's a jerk and as moronic as he states he is. Nor because of the plot - it's not that it lacks one, but that the plot can't proceed because Caulfield is too paralyzed emotionally and mentally to push forward. He just gives up all together. It's great because it gives you a chance to see the world through in a different way. It's that, if you ever wanted to know what life would be like if you just gave up, this book gives you a chance to explore that world in great depth, in the most extreme way, as opposed to the idiotic-American-Pie, mushy-teen-coming-of-age-romance way. And there is a sort-of plot, and there is some heart to it, especially in the scenes where Holden's with his little sister. It's almost adorable.
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Summary: the best book i ever read
Review: I think that th catche in the rye was a good book because even though there was alot of bad cussing it's still very entertaining.I would recommend this book to everyone.
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