Catcher in the Rye

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Summary: One of the best books i've read to date
Review: The Catcher in the Rye is worthy of all the praise it's gotten throughout the many years it's been around. It proves to be a timeless classic to me. Many times when I try and sit down to read a book I can read it for a while but eventually slip away from it, and never finish what I started. I found this to be one of those books that kept me interested the whole time though. The one thing I would compare this book to would have to be the classic sitcom Seinfeld. The reason for this is simply because they are both very well written and regard things we all relate to in some way, but in the end when all is said and done don't have a major plot to it that really jumps out at you. Of course I do not mean this in the bad way at all. I really enjoyed this intricate and groundbreaking way the whole book is brought together. The book is narrated the whole way through by the main character, Holden Caulfield, starting as he has just recently been expelled from his last school, Pencey Prep. Pencey Prep is different from most other schools. To attend the school you must stay in dorms they have like you would for college. It is also broken into semesters with a christmas break splitting up the 2 semesters. The Catcher in the Rye takes you on Holden's journey as he decides to leave Saturday night before everyone else who will be going home for Christmas break on that next Wednesday. It follows him as he travels around New York. He isn't going home yet because he is waiting for his parents to get the letter of his expulsion and giving them time to cool off. Although it is many people's belief that Holden is, as he would call himself, "a madman", as I read the book I couldn't help but relate myself to him in some ways. He really is the epitome of a teenage guy in many ways, just in a way over-dramatized. It's my belief he really has a good heart. It's just sad he doesn't see anyone's actions as "real". He interacts with everyone the same as most teenagers really, he just won't see past the negative in people. It's funny how he creates excuses for things just like any teen would too. For example he's "never in the right mood" to call Jane, a neighbor of his when he's at home, who you can tell he has a big crush on. This is really in my perspective just him doing what all of us seem to do by creating an excuse he views as a good reason not to do something that he really wants to do deep inside. I think he does this because of fear of rejection in some ways and also nervousness. The one thing he never will put down is his family. I really like the fact that no matter what other flaws you may see in him u will not see a moral decay when you look at the way he treats his family. He loves and respects all his family members and is very genuine in his feelings for them. The book basically concentrates on Holden, the main character, struggling with great depression that's overcome him. He can't get away from it. He tries to overcome it by talking with others all the time but keeps turning the people he talks with away for some flawed reason. He's trying to fit in this society but at the same time pushing himself away. We all can relate to this, especially as teens, when you want to see the reasons behind things we all are obligated to do, such as getting our education in school, but sometimes find ourselves becoming fed up with the way our system is. I hold this up as one of the best books I have read to date, and highly recommend you read this book no matter who you are.

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Summary: The catcher in the rye
Review: The catcher in the rye J.D.Salinger

I must admit that I don't really like reading books but I liked this book very much. I think the book has a very good subject for people of our age. The book is about a boy that has about our age so it is very easy to enter yourself into the part. The boy in the book, Holden, has a lot of problems with schools. In this story he had to leave school and because he had still a couple of days before he had to go home he just went to a hotel and stayed in the city for a couple of days. What I really liked about the story was the fact that it wasn't to long and it was easy to follow. Sometimes you had to read a thing twice because it was written in spoken language, but that wasn't bad. The book didn't count to many characters so you didn't have to concentrate to hard to be able to follow the story. I really liked the main character, Holden, because he was just a regular boy that didn't really know what to do so he just did the things that he could think of. The book wasn't what I had expected from it, it wasn't just an ordinary book like we always have to read. The book wasn't exciting but it was good to read, I enjoyed it.

Nick Oris
6MWb

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Summary: My Thoughts on "Catcher In The Rye "
Review: The Catcher in the Rye Review
The title, The Catcher in the Rye, still catches my eye. After reading the book it still intrigues me how the author chose this as the title. I think it's brilliant. The book is just as brilliant.
Everyone can relate to Holden Caulfield, the fiercely honest and stubborn headed main character, in some way. As Holden recaps his journey through some hard times in his life you realize just how like him you are. He reminisces about things like getting kicked out of Pencey High School, "the very good school," according to all whom have yet to and never will attend it. He struggles with his fellow peers who he can't quite see eye to eye with. He predicts on how his parents will feel about him leaving Pencey, " Well...they'll be pretty irritated about it. They really will. This is about the fourth school I've gone to." After leaving Pencey, he figures he can stay at a hotel so his parents won't suspect he's gotten kicked out of another school. Holden thinks to himself, "I'd put on my red hunting cap when I was in the cab, just for the hell of it, but I took it off before I checked in. I didn't want to look like a screwball or something. I didn't know then that the goddamn hotel was full of perverts and morons."
Holden was in for a surprise when faced with life firsthand instead of the "candy- coated" life he had experienced in his elementary schools and boarding high school, Pencey. He's faced with pimps, prostitutes, strange cab drivers and just life in the streets.
He calls on old friends to comfort him in his struggling downward but even they are no comfort to him. It takes time and bad experiences within the few days Holden lives on his own to see the truth. He comes up with his own resolution to face life head on. He figures that maybe he doesn't have it so bad and discovers a sort of self-respect. Every challenge he is faced with helps him discover that he is just as important as every other person on earth. He finds out that by letting his care for school, friends and life go, that there are people who care for him and would be disappointed if he made a decision like dropping out of school. Once Holden claims he's going to run away, his little sister Phoebe starts crying and Holden says, "I'm not going away anymore. I changed my mind. So stop crying and shut up." But for the most part, Holden realized he would be disappointing himself the most.
The author J. D. Salinger approaches Holden's story with a comical irony that still captures the harsh realities of life. It's a pretty easy to read book. Salinger portrays Holden as a person who expresses exactly how he feels on all the issues at hand without leaving the reader to wonder. It was exciting to see what Holden would do next. He was full of many good insights and pondered upon things people usually don't take the time to think about.
I recommend this book. It captured my interest till the end. We all, as people, face hardships and sometimes feel like giving up, but we eventually pull through. Without those hardships we wouldn't be the people we are now. Everyone will take something different from this book. For me, I learned that life isn't half as bad as we think it may be. Everyone has his or her own problems to deal with. You're not alone.

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Summary: It was pretty good, but it did get boring in the end.
Review: The Catcher in the Rye started off as a funny and interesting book. The jokes that the author would crack, and the storyline and all made for a really exciting beginning. I got really into it and couldn't put it down. But as the story went on, it got really boring. The story started getting a little dull. Actually, very dull. If someone asked me, I wouldn't recommend this book for anything.

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Summary: Outstanding but also a bit disappointing
Review: The Catcher in the Rye talks about problems that teenagers face every day. While I can identify with Holden and his situation, I find the transition between childhood and adulthood a bit too negative and there is no real development. Holden describes the adult world too negative. The story is good but I think that it isn't a very typical story of people finding themselves. The book is easy to read because the vocabulary isn't difficult but there are a lot of deaper meanings in it that make sence if you try to figure out what they mean. A down point is that Salinger goes on and on about unimportant things and that it is too pessimistic. The Catcher in the Rye was outsanding but also a bit disappointing.

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Summary: THIS IS A GOOD BOOK!!!
Review: The Catcher in the Rye tells about a boy who flunks high school and roams around New York City. This book shows the psyche of a 'normal' kid. It is not all stiff and adultish. People who are obsessed with not swearing will not like it, and people who are obsessed with swearing should enjoy it.

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Summary: interesting
Review: The Catcher in the Rye was 'interesting' for lack of better words. I read it in three days and was quite intrigued. it got my attention. but i don't feel that it improved my vocabulary or intelect in any way. That's what a good book should do. When I read it, I didn't feel like I was reading 'The Catcher in the Rye', from all I'd heard of it. I thought I'd be at least a bIt hard to understand. Ironically,it reminded me of this boy I know who lives up the street from me and that distracted me.

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Summary: Great none the less
Review: The Catcher In The Rye was a great book and it keept me intrested the whole time I was reading it. The only problem I have with it is that there seems to be no point to the story. I know it is supposted to show the difficulties of being a teen and all, but the story dosent go anywhere. Other then that the book was very good and involving.

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Summary: My Review
Review: The Catcher In The Rye was a very entertaining yet desturbing book. The story opens up as a boy telling a story in first person point of view. About how he ended up in a California rest home after sufering a mental breakdown. He goes about telling the reader about him self and the problems he encountered in boarding school. Holden Caulfield is a 17 year old high school who got kicked out of his boarding school for not aplying him self. Holden failed all his subjects except for english. Holden goes on to decribe his rommate Ward Stradlater who goes on a double date with Holden. On apon returning from the date Holden and Ward get into a fight over the way Ward was treating his date. Holden then leaves and boards a train for New York City. Holden tells about how he was expecting to only stay in New York for a couple of days but it turns out to be longer than that.Holden wonders around New York finding all kinds of encounters. After wondering around New York Holden calls his student advisor to meet for a drink. While there his advisor calls Holden inmature and Holden gets mad and leaves. He goes home and wakes up his sister and askes her if she could give him her Christmas money to borrow. She gives Holden all he had and promises she wont tell their parents he returned. Holden then goes to his former Engish teachers house and sleeps on his sofa. When he awakes his teacher is patting his head, Holden gets scared and runs away to the train station. He decides to head west, he leaves a note for his sister telling her to meet him when she arrives she comes with her bags to go with him. Holden refused to take her with him so instead he took her to the zoo. Holden then stops telling the story and is not sure if he is going back to school or not. Then the story ends with Holden in the mental institution confused on where his is going or if he is geting out.

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Summary: Hmm...
Review: The Catcher in the Rye was a very funny book to me. It centers around a young man (I forget his name as I read this book two years ago, but plan to read it again soon) and his crazy life style, with girls, a little too much swearing, smoking, and "Interesting" friends from school. He has a little sister named Phoebe (isn't it amazing, I remember HER name) who is not mentioned often but who sort of is an influence, and this book just made me happy, sad, and full of mirth all at once. Great book to read out of or in school (in my case, I read it out of school)...The story of 'his' interesting life.