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Summary: like it or not, it gets a reaction
Review: after reading all these reviews, i couldn't help but notice how VEHEMENTLY people reacted to Catcher. whether the book is good or not remains a matter of opinion, but if the test of a good book is to get a strong reaction from its readers, then i'd say this book has passed the test. what do YOU think?
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Summary: Um, its OK
Review: After reading all these reviews, I don't know what to think. You could write a book on just the REVIEWS of this book. Its no Lord of the Flies, but its ok. And to all the parents out there offended by the book, spend a day at your kids school, and you'll find Holdens "vulgar" vocabulary mild and infantile in comparison to the average student...or teacher.
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Summary: Catcher in the rye
Review: After reading and analyzing this book i was so impressed because this book was published in the 1950's and it is still a favorite for a lot of teenagers and a classic for American Literature. The author gives us an excellent view of how was the way of living of a teenager in the 1950's and that is very similar to the way the teens live on these days. The author puts the reader in Holden shoes, and makes him feel like if he were living all what Holden lived. I recomend this book, especially to teennagers.
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Summary: I was not impressed.
Review: After reading reviews for this book, I dug it up in my dad's old books and read it. It stunk. It seemed to me that Holden spent too much time whining. It was fluff. If you have the desire to read a book that goes nowhere in 200 pages, read this book!
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Summary: look for your own rye
Review: after reading salinger's the catcher in teh rye.i am as confused as caulfild.when i try to write something affected me,i can easily think out a lot things,but i can't sor out them .it feels like a small river flowing doun your heart but the water is so clear that you can feel nothng afer failed to identify an exact meaning,i found that a good works mayge just like this--you can feel what the author feel,but you can't express it.your heart beats with the author's,just as you have esperienced what he experiened,or you are just experienceing what he is experiencing. but when i read the words if a body meet a body in the rye i cant't help but thinking a beaufiful and peaceful world:there is green green rye in ga big field.some old windmills stand there singing in the golden summer sunlight.windfloweers are dancing in the murmur of the maple trees and the fragrance spreding in the opacity air.a lot of lovely kids playing to therir hearts' content...whtn i read this ,i lost the ability to resist.i must admit that holden is not heroic in the raaditional sense.rather,he fits into the modern antiheroic hero.if you just heard what he said,you couldn't imagine any way how such a bad boy would have so noble quality?in fact,holden's anti-hero figure is a self-guard method,in case he was hurt by the phon and complex society int which teh attempt to seek innocent and comprehebnsion.i. it worl appear then that the misfit hero is in a world which can be quite dextructice to the self yet occasionally offers a chance for growth nd regeneration through love and compassion.he speaks for all who have not lost hope-or even if they have lost hope,have ont lost interset0-in the search for love and morality in the present-day world. the catcher in the rye is not pursued as caazily as in the 1950's and in the 1960's in america.american have passed the stage that confused in the mind.in 12950's usa just after rapidly econimic increaing,but the cultree didn't has such a clear development.the gap in the tiem resulted the bewilderment in spirit.but now this book is hot selling in dangdang book stor and in qinhuangdao you can find any book which is in the same series but the catcher in the rye is sold out.now in china,the economix is developing quite fast,to a certain degree,everyone don't know the direction of it .that is o sya that not only culture ,but alse the culture's base is na uncertain state.and most important,china is on the rurn of her culture,the whole country is coming to opening more and more.all kinds of things are pourig down on the people who are accustomed to the state of being stbgle for may years.in the blood,chinese can't abandon all the taition and also can't receive all the thing of foreigner's but the technology and most of the culture fruit in the west are advanced than chinese.do may colorful temptation are surging in frongt jof us so we are a little aizzy.in this case,the people begin to divide into two parts,one part have accepted all the eemptation on his own initiative no matter whether it's nature is fit for us. not end ---
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Summary: WHAT WOULD HOLDEN DO?
Review: After reading some of these reviews I was moved to write one myself. Many of the reviews are obviously from kids who identify with Holden's confusion and desire to do the right thing. It's a great book, to say the least, but I remember the first time I read it. I came away feeling like Holden, depressed.Holden wants to know what makes people do the horrible things they do. Like Holden I too asked those questions and I see that many of the young people who have written reviews here are asking the same questions. For answers try: HOW TO SAVE AMERICA AND THE WORLD. It was written after many years of asking Holden-like questions in the same naïve and innocent manner. Perhaps Holden would agree with some of the explanations for our world's problems! Joseph Francione [author of HOW TO SAVE AMERICA AND THE WORLD]
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Summary: Wow! What symbolism!
Review: After reading The Catcher in the Rye for English class, I found out what I already knew: every book has more symbolism than you can imagine. J.D. Salinger didn't disappoint me in Catcher. While reading it was a great pleasure, finding out the little details made the book that much more fun. While the book could be considered depressing, it seems to be an accurate view of teenage life. I would reccomend this book to anyone who is, was, or ever will be a teenager. Well, maybe not anyone who will be a teenager, but that's a different book altogether.
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Summary: Questionable Literature
Review: After reading The Catcher in the Rye, I was quite amused after seeing all the reviews that other people had written. To me, it did not seem to be a work of literature that expressed Holden's anguish and him having a breakdown. Please, don't get me wrong, it was a compelling piece of work, but it didn't seem that strong in the sense that everyone had talked about before. In my eyes, I have many questions about this work, where does it come into context that he is having a breakdown? It merely shows his life over a couple of days after he gets kicked out of school and him living in New York, and him telling us about his past. Then again, maybe I should read over the book again and try to see what others are reading in between the lines.
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Summary: it will catch you too
Review: After reading the first 20 pages, I thought " What a crumby book!" In the beginning I found it really difficult to keep on reading it, because of its long and difficult sentences, with a lot of symbolisme. But after a while, and after I had finished this book, I found it a quite amazing novel! Why? Because of several things. Let's start with the style and the language of J.D.Salnger. I think his style is very different from any other book I've ever read in English. He has a, quite genius, way of telling everything very detailed and, in my opinion, very true. The use of his language annoyed me sometimes, because it consisted of a lot of repetition. He used words like 'crumby', 'old', 'buzz', a lot, and after a while, I hated that! The thing I did like was the way he sometimes wrote dialect words. For example: "wuddayacalit" or something like that. Then we have the characters of the book. For me, they were extremely realistic. Not that I had the need to identify myself with them, but I recognized all the different types in a certain way. I'm not saying that I liked them (I think Holden is a rather phony guy himself, to tell you the truth!), but I liked the way they were described and became realistic to me. Finally, I'm going to say something about the content of 'The catcher in the Rye" In my opinion, the story is both original as interesting. It wasn't a book that bored me after 10 pages, because it is full with adventures that Holden goes trough. I also liked Holden vision on everything. His remarks were often smart, to the point and well thought, although they were sometimes exaggerated and childish. So, what I can conclude is that this novel has a lot of different qualities. Some of them are good and some not. But overall, the good qualities dominate and they make the book really worth reading. I wouldn't recommend this book to everyone, because it is written for a certain, young, public. The only thing for me that's left to say is: " All you youngsters out there, read this book and it will catch you to!" M.Geerinckx Engels
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Summary: Good Book
Review: After reading this book, I feel as though it was a good story depicting the life of a teenager boy who goes through the struggles of adolecent life. I enjoyed reading it. It kept me interested the whole time I was reading it.
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