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Summary: Great Book
Review: I'm a teenager who 100% relates to Houlden. This is a great book and a must read for every teenager. If your looking for a good book this is it.
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Summary: This book is most certainly a must-read
Review: I'm a teenager, and I was going on a long car ride with my family, so I thought that I would bring a book to help ease the boredom. I chose Catcher in the Rye. This book is the best I have ever read. I don't think that there is a better book to describe a teen than this book. His experiences are some of the same I have gone through (some, not all). Someone said that this book had no physical plot. Well, I think that is what makes it so good. A book this well-written doesn't really need a plot. It's about life, and life doesn't always follow a physical plot. This book is excellent and well written. A deftinate must read.
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Summary: What a boy think about this book
Review: I'm a young man from Italy and I read this book with a teacher and some other guys. I think that this book it is not very difficult. Usually I don't read too much and somethimes I don't understand some strange words, but our teacher says us what do they mean. I think that it is a nice book, but a little boring, that everyone can read and understand. The part that I prefer is when Holden comes back home and speaks to his sister Phoebe. Holden with his book can enjoy guys with different age
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Summary: Good, but not the best novel ever
Review: I'm an 18 year old boy and I most of the time enjoyed the book.The fact that the main character in the book, is a person who is almost as old as me(only 2 years of difference)so I could easy imagine what Holden means, you really can transform yourself into his mind and you can understand the things he says. A lot of other reviewers say the book is written in the "slangy" language of teenagers. I agree with that and although the novel has been written in '51, you see that there hasn't changed a lot for teenagers. Despite this all, I haven't started to read the book with the intention of discovering a deeper meaning and I didn't found one either. So I don't believe people who say that this book can help teenagers to find their true self and the truth about life. Books are in my opinion written to entertain, to let the readers relax. I want to finish with an advice:if you are a teenager, read the book, otherwise :DON'T. Thank you for reading my review and greetings from Belgium.
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Summary: It's really bad. It really is...
Review: I'm an avid reader...been so since a young kid. Heck, I even taught English for a while. Just don't want you thinking I'm some 10-year old who doesn't give a damn about books.I was lent a copy of this book by a colleague at work, saying that it was a "classic" and something all kids in the US had to read (I'm English - moved here a little under 4 years ago - so was fortunately spared reading this arduously long and boring book at school). I figured my kids would someday read it, so I thought "What the heck, I'll give it a shot." To say that it's the most insanely boring and pointless book I've ever read in my life would be an understatement. Aside from that, the style of writing is intensely annoying. Perhaps to give the "uninitiated" a taste of the style of this book, I'll try to imitate the part I found most annoying... "I was really bored with this goddam book. I really was. I know the girl who lent me the goddam thing meant well, but it bored me out of my mind. It really did. Forcing myself to read this brought me back to my school years, when I was forced to read "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. It was back in England, must've been the summer of '85. Man, it was hot. It really was. I remember thinking it had to have been as hot as in the story...." What does this show?
1. The insane amount of pointless swearing that goes on in the book.
2. The frustratingly annoying usage of the words "It really was." or "He really did." or "I really am." as a pointless reinforcement of what had been stated previously. The only thing this "writing style" (and I use that term liberally) reminds me of is back in school when someone would try to pad out their essays or stories with what we called "waffle" - pointless repetition to bump up word count. Period.
3. The author is so apt to digress from a point it's just not funny. He'll be in the middle of a conversation, take you into a 2-page retrospective on some randomly connected incident or memory and bring you back into the conversation expecting you to have your interest still maintained. Some reviews of this book dub the main character of Holden Caulfield as "whiny", and yes, he is to an extent. More annoying is the author's constant effort to prove a point by dubbing everyone that the character encounters as "phony". There is no plot, there is no story line...although I guess you could say the story line is "the day in the life of a manic depressive, borderline paranoid teenager who was just expelled from school again". No character is endearing, no anecdote or memory is interesting. It's just a seemingly endless pile of drivel that I was counting down the pages to finish. Do I want my kids to be forced to read this? A resounding "NO" is an understatement. Make them read the stylish writing of Shakespeare or the evocative and captivating writing of Harper Lee in "To Kill A Mockingbird". Our kids have enough to deal with in this day and age...let's not burden them further by boring them to death. Inspire them, teach them, let them be creative, but forcing them to read this senseless drivel is nothing short of torture.
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Summary: The Graduate of the literary world
Review: I'm damned glad Salinger will never allow this to be filmed. Picture it. Ethan Hawke whining and saying "really" a lot. Ugh!! I will read this book every two years until I'm too old to remember how it feels to be Holden Caufield. BECAUSE I read it every two years, I hope I'll never forget. If you're a 7th-grader reading it because it has curse words in it, read Judy Blume's Wifey or something, cuz you're missing the point People who assail this book for its lack of plot might just as well try to learn botany from Monet's Waterlilies. No other novel of the last 50 years even comes close.
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Summary: Must be read more than once to understand its meaning
Review: I'm disappointed in those 17 year old kids who think they are smart enough and experienced enough to negatively judge this amazing book with just one reading. Holden does not represent all teenagers. He is sick and needs help. This book gives us the opportunity to try and understand what some kids experience. Don't try to be like Holden, try to help him.
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Summary: I love Holden
Review: I'm glad I didn't find and read this book before I did. I was 21 when I first read it and I could REALLY identify with Holdens pov. Holden is a dreamer and he pursues pleasure - he loves people and he hates them, what makes him different from most is his sophistication, the depth of his insight and his analysis of other people and their motives. I have the same sort of wavelength but not his sort of insight. If I had've read this book at 16 I would have been really disturbed and changed by it. I've tried to get my friends to read it but they didn't "get it" - this book does not appeal to everyone. I think you have to be an emotional and deep sort of person to understand his pov. I have always been irked because he never does end up talking to Jane.
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Summary: Wonderful book.
Review: I'm glad that I've read this book, because it's so insightful. Holden Caulfield comes alive through these pages, and the symbolisms and deeper meanings make this book a great read for young teenagers and those more mature.
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Summary: best book i ever read!!!
Review: i'm not even done with the book and already i want to read it again. i can relate to holden a lot and the book is hilarios.
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