Catcher in the Rye

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Summary: just read...
Review: the Catcher in The Rye. i don't really know exactly what to say about this book. i picked it up for the first time in about the sixth grade and i've read it about four times since then. although i don't relate to Holden, the main character, as well as i used to, this book is a worth while read for anyone. you will fall in love with Holden, and feel good to recognize the underlying compassion he has under all that cynisism. i'm not going to write a synopsis because i'm sure you've read about a hundred of them already, but i tell you, read this book. i'm not a very big ready whatsoever, but i could not put this down. it offers a glimpse into the mind of a teenager in the fifties, who doesn't sound very different from a teen today. you will be moved, thats an order. give this one a try.

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Summary: The catcher in the rye
Review: The Catcher in the Rye.

The Catcher in de Rye, written by J.D. Salinger is a good book. It's about a young boy, Holdon. He's only 16 years old. He tells us the story of his life. It's a funny book, sometimes one has to laugh very hard. Other times, it's a little bit boring.

Holden, the main character of the book, is kicked out of Pencey Prep, when the story begins. He tells about his life at Pencey. It's funny how he describes it: he's only sixteen years old, but sometimes you think he's an adult. He's very clever, but also very lazy, that's the reason why he's kicked out at Pencey. That part of the book I like most. Certainly when he tells about his roommates, I had to laugh a lot.

The second part of the book, when he left Pencey, is more complicated. He is in New York all the time, and he doesn't dare to go home because his parents will get very angry. They don't know yet that he's kicked out at Pencey. He misses his little sister Phoebe most. He's spending much money. He goes to cheap hotels and he drinks a lot. He calls old friends and he thinks a lot about his childhood, about his dead brother Allie, about his life. He always uses the word 'phony', for instance for people he doesn't like. That word is cool, but he uses it too much, I think.

After strolling in New York a few days, Holdon decides to go home. There he finds support by his little sister Phoebe. She's a very nice person, he likes her very much. In the end of the story, he goes home, but he doesn't want to tell what happened then.

It isn't an easy book to read, there's a lot of spoken American language in it, for instance 'helluva' and 'watcha', I don't like that much. The vocabulary isn't easy, a few times I had to use a dictionary. The story is fascinating, but you spent a lot of time to read the whole book because there's much text on each page.

The story has a few strange turnings, for instance when he left the house of Mr Antolini. Some things I didn't understand, but the story in general, I understood. This isn't a boring story. In the beginning, I thought it was a stupid story, because I didn't understand a lot of words. But when you keep reading, you start to understand the words better because you are in the English mood.

At last, what I liked the most about this book, is the title, and how it's explained in the book. Holdon is standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. He has to catch all the little kids - that are playing there in the big field of rye - that starts to go over the cliff. That he does all day. He's the catcher in the Rye.

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Summary: How to get caught by it
Review: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
(J.D. Salinger)

~ Opinion by Annemie Thijs ~

At the beginning, this book only made little impression to me.
The way it is written was quite nice, I won't deny it: the American youngsters' tongue seemed very sincere to me, although it started to be boring "as hell" after a few days of reading.
An other thing I would like to treat is the account of what happened the story itself. The events in this book really don't keep you reading it. Holden is getting more and more depressed, page by page, because of what he does and sees, and what happens around him, which is getting boring after a while. But I do understand that this book isn't about what Holden does or what happens to him, but about what goes trough his mind during this crazy period in his life. These thoughts are really interesting, in a way. By following his thoughts, we can learn what is important and precious to him, and what is not.
Little by little, we learn Holden has a certain attitude to life, which clashes with the attitudes to life of others, or even with our society: for example, Holden dreams about being mute-deaf, becouse he wouldn't have to have stupid conversations.
There are two thing I truly like in this book: first, there are the ducks in the lagoon, and second, there is the way Holden gets over his depression: Phoebe on the carousel.
Maybe I can conclude that, after a while, when you start understanding Holden better, and when you start sympathisizing with him, and maybe even finding him likable, you also start understanding -and liking- the book itself. It is special, in a certain way.

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Summary: its a my review! mankitgod.irishotstuff
Review: the catcher in the rye

Holden Caulfield, a 16 year-old, goes to a boarding school in Hagerstown, Pennsylvania. His school is about to expel him because of his bad grades. He wanted to stay out away from home and school so during his vacation he lived out and didn't go home. During that time he lived in hotels in New York City. He got the money from his grandmother who never remembers his birth-date and gives him money. One day he bought a gift for his sister whom he loves respectively, Phoebe, at home. Because they are close, Holden told him about how he is flunking school. Next day he went to find his sister at her school and was going to say good bye because he is deciding to leave and run away from home, but because she cried, the then doesn't have the heart to leave anymore.
J. D. Salinger wrote this book in a teenager point of view, which was very smart. The words and the language she used to write this book are commonly heard from a lot of teenagers. I think this book is well written because of the way she wrote this book and how it¡¦s about a teenager. It's good how she writes about his feelings not just what happens and what is he doing.

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Summary: NL-S approved book
Review: The Catcher in the Rye

J. D. Salinger's book, The Catcher in the Rye, is one of the better books that I have read. It deals with a major problems that one may have in their life.

Salinger did a wonderful job of expressing the feelings of the charactors so that I could relate. The main charactor, Holden Caulfield, goes through many different kinds of problems and does not try to seek help, instead runs away from them. The book points out to the readers that you can't just run away from all of your problems because your going to have to deal with them no matter what. "You can run, but you can't hide." That would be the main lesson learned by reading this book.

I recommend this book to people who are fifteen years of age or older. I do not recommentd it to younger people becuase of all the profound language in some places. This book would even be a good one for older people to read because it took place in the 1950's and they could try to relate it to their childhood. This book was fun to read and kept my attention. So if you want to read a book that will keep you wanting to read, you should read The Catcher in the Rye.

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Summary: the catcher in the rye
Review: The Catcher in the Rye

I'm not such a good englishreader. It took a lot of my time to read this book. In the beginning it didn't read fluently because there were a lot of words I don't know. But to the ending it went a lot better.
In this book the author wrote, like people speak in our real live. I like that sort of writing but it also has disadvantages because there were also a lot of words that aren't in a dictonnary. I think it's a bit of a strange book. Most of the time it bored me because in fact there wasn't a real story. It only goes about a boy, Holden, people descripe what he does but that's it. He doesn't go through adventures. While I was reading, I've never felt tension from the beginning till the end. I like more story's when you can replace yourself with the person in the book. I never felt, I would like to be that boy, now way, he has a bored life and does nothing sensfull. Sometimes there were funny parts in it, for example : Holden asked everytime when he took a cab where the ducks rest during the winter. I like books with a lot of tension and adventure. I don't like open ends, this book doesn't realy have an open end because there nothing happened. But we also don't know how Holdens life made progress. I like to know the confrontation of Holden with his parents.
The book didn't fascinate me and I was happy when I finished it. I don't want to break off the hole story, I didn't feel bad that we had to read such a story, for a time it's fun to read it once but not to much of those story's.

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Summary: Keep the Dust off this Book
Review: The Catcher of the Rye is an excellent book told through the cynical views of Holden Caulfield, a troubling teenager in the midst of sort out his ideas, beliefs and values, and figuring out what is next in life.

After finding out that he was to be again expelled from his prep boarding school, Holden decided to get away and go home early for Christmas break. As he travels home and explore Manhattan doing whatever whenever he feels. Holden does lots of wandering around he's hotel room and bar observing people and trying to entertain himself so that he would not feel so lonely and sad. He feels depressed from getting expelled and tries to cheer himself up by doing whatever he wants. Although Holden was feeling almost hopeless, through numerous chats with people and alone time, Holden clears his mind ending the book in a fresher more optimistic view.

The book has a rather simple plot dealing with Holden and his self conflicting issues mainly of wanting to grow up and be accepted as an adult but also wishing to become a kid again. As his ideas flexures between he wants and what he thinks he wants and his opinions. This back and forth thoughts and tension between opinions fills the pages, leaving the reader with a frustrating yet suspense feeling. As Holden's thoughts become clearer the ideas straightened out leaving the reader with a pleasing feeling.

This rather addictive book is not a plot through the actions but a plot through the thoughts. A reader would either really enjoy it or hate it. If you're looking for a more cynical bedtime read, dust this book off the shelf.

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Summary: changed the way of adolescent life in the 1990s
Review: The Cathcer in the Rye not only opened our High School English classroom into a realm of unexplained thoughts and language, but it made most of the students realize that literature (required reading) isn't always dry. Holden expresses himself the way children in today's society do, with explicit actions and vulagarity, and if people aren't willing to except the morals and lifestyle of their youth, then they can band it, and similary books of extraordinary thought -but reality. It is the only book I read twice, and the first book that I thouroughly enjoyed, both times. To be honest, it changed the way I act in society, instead of behaving like a turtle in my shell, protected and shy - Now, whether it is exceptable in society or not, I say what I think and act on instinct, and many more people respect that then they do a scared turtle. Thanks Holden!

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Summary: This is a book that I recommend to everybody
Review: The Cathcher in the rye is a book that I recomend to people my age (15 years)or older. This is the age when we are experiencing so many changes and we don't understand them, just like holden. The author make us emphatetic. The only thing I did't like about the book was it's ending. Because is kind of an intense book that has apretty long Climax, and then the aouthor writes a prety weak ending.

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Summary: THE ORIGINAL TEEN COMEDY
Review: The cult American coming-of-age novel every teenager should read - and every adult should re-read or discover for the first time with a shamelessly young-again sense of nostalgia. Written in a chatty, slangy style, the novel's teenage narrator Holden Caulfield makes an immediate connection with the reader as he recounts his life story, confiding in us his most intimate thoughts and feelings and gaining our trust and sympathy with his honesty.
The book was banned when it was first published in the fifties and remained controversial for a decade afterwards. At the time it was deemed too rebellious for teens to read ... the reason why it is still fresh and relevant today, and why the sentiments at the heart of this eternal teen angst story will never date and always be read by each new generation of teenagers growing up.