Catcher in the Rye

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Summary: A Witty Novel
Review: The Catcher in the Rye is mature in its immaturity. It took me a while to finally come to this conclusion. When read for the first time, Holden appears to be an immature teen who is too busy complaining about everything he can. I recently watched the movie Loser with Jason Biggs, and took note of the influence this book had on this movie. For example, the red hunting cap made an appearance.

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Summary: Some people just miss the point...
Review: The Catcher in the Rye is much more than a disillusioned youth complaining about life in general. This, at its core, is a very sad story about a boy who lost his childlike innocence too early and recognizes that fact. Holden doesn't want the same thing to happen to all the other "little kids" in the world. I read this book for the first time when I was 14 and loved it. Every time I reread it I get more out of it. Holden's motives and perceptions become clearer to me the older I get. He is not a "spoiled preppie," as some have purported. He grew up in a rarified environment and that is partly to blame for his view of the world. He mentions several times that he wants to move away to the mountains and live as a deaf mute. This isn't intended to show him as cynical. This shows his reaction to the environment he was lived in all his life.

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Summary: The best book I have ever read
Review: The Catcher in the Rye is my favorite book. I'm fourteen years old, and I first read this book about 2 months ago. I really connected with Holden Caulfield more than any other character I've read about in a story. At the time I read this novel, I had basically dropped out of school; I hadn't gone in over a month (I have since returned), and I was feeling really depressed, just like Holden was in many parts of the book. Reading this book made me feel better because it made me realize that there are many other kids just like me; There are lots kids who don't like school and don't have the best relationship with their parents. Many kids don't agree with all of society's rules and values. I realized that other teenagers also felt that the people around them were phonies. It was very interesting to read about Holden's adventures in Manhattan as well. Holden Caulfield is an amazing character. This truly is an excellent book.

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Summary: The Catcher in the Rye
Review: The Catcher in the Rye is one book I really don't know how to react to. Holden the 17 year old narrator of the novel is just plain "phony". I say this because all throughout the novel he is telling us about how he thinks everything and everyone is phony. He narrarated the novel in first person from a psychiatric facility months after the events in the novel occurred. His reactions to people are weird. At first I found them an annoyance but once I kept reading the novel his reactions became kind of humorous. The whole novel took place just about two days before his Christmas break. His sister Phoebe acts as his best friend and he tells her everything. Holden always seems to mess up his chances with the girls he goes out with and always makes dumb mistakes.
He never really thinks over what he does. One person who tries to help Holden out is Mr. Spencer who is a history teacher at his school Pencey Prep. Holden didn't want to listen to Mr. Spencer though because Holden thinks he did nothing wrong. Mr. Antolini was Holden's favorite teacher and when Holden went to visit him, he makes Holden feel uncomfortable. It seems that every time he tries to connect with someone there becomes a conflict. Nothing ever seems to go smoothly for him.
The meaning of the title "Catcher and the Rye" is a person who tries to catch little children as they are about to fall off of a cliff and this is what Holden's goal is in life. I think you can decide for yourself but in the end I think you will agree with me. Holden is a very odd character and you must have patients to read this novel. So that is why I rated it 3 stars.

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Summary: GREAT AMERICAN LIT.
Review: The Catcher in the Rye is one of the BEST books EVER written by an American author. If you like this is book and basically how could you not, then read To Kill a Mockingbird as well. Both are worthy of your time.

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Summary: An Excellent Book
Review: The Catcher in the Rye is one of the Best books that I have ever read! Not only does Sallinger do a wonderful job of presenting the inner-thoughts of a troubled teen, but he also describes this tale in a unique and creative style. This classic 5-star tale is an excellent choice to read. I would recommend it to anyone. Do yourself a favor and read it!

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Summary: You're lucky stop complaining!
Review: The Catcher In the Rye is one of the best books that I have ever read. I am from England and In my English class we read some pretty boring books (Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge for example) and I think that all people who have an oppurtunity to read a book like this for school should be happy, you could do alot worse! Believe me.

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Summary: Catcher in the Rye
Review: The Catcher in the Rye is one of the greatest books I've ever read, it might be on a banned books list, but we should all read it, it is very different from most novels and it's a great book. Read it.

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Summary: A story of a grief observed
Review: The Catcher in the Rye is one of the half dozen books which I've read over a hundred times in the 30 or so years since I first encountered it. Being a troubled teenager when I read it, I identified with Holden, and when I became a writer, it was hard for me at first to shake Holden's narrative voice and find my own. I've studied the book to death, and read most of the critical books about it and its author, J.D. Salinger, but somehow everyone has focused on the book's language and Holden's teenage alienation, without ever getting their brains around the central point to the book.

Holden Caulfield is a teenage boy who's lost his younger brother, Allie, and is terrified that something equally horrible might happen to his younger sister, Phoebe. All his obsessions -- the title of the book itself -- has to do with his inability to deal with the grief of his loss, his distrust of a universe that could do this, and his wish that he could wrap his arms around innocent children like his lost brother and protect them forever -- protect them from falling off a cliff as "the catcher in the rye.".

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Summary: A book helping young people cope with their lives.
Review: The Catcher in the Rye is one of the most entertaining books i have read. The characters in the book are very real and entertaining. We all know Jane Gallagher, Maurice, Sally Hayes, and even Holden Caufield in our own lives. Salinger is very in tune with the youth of the 40's and even the 90's when he wrote this book. Alot of the problems Holden faces in this book are the same problems faced by teens today. This book is not required reading material but a damn good book. The book's profanity may seem a little damned gratuitous at times but that is how life is to some. I would recommend this book to anyone i gaurantee you will laugh through tears