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Summary: A powerful, authentic and moving master piece!!!!!
Review: The day I read 'The catcher in the rye' is the day I realized that I wasn't alone in going through changes, loneliness and periods of anger. I could totally relate to every of Holden's emotion and thought. His desire to be 'a catcher in the rye', is more than just wanting to stop children from falling over the cliff, It actually shows how much he desires to conserve his youth of which he is so afraid to let go. This book is a beautiful testimony of how tough it can be to grow up!!!!
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Summary: This book captured me becaue I am in the age area of Holden.
Review: The day we started reading "The Catcher in the Rye" in my Junior english class, at first I really didn't understand it for the first couple pages. But after those first couple pages, I was so engrossed in the book that I could not put it down. I wouldn't stop reading the book until early in the morning. And I had to get up early the next morning. This book is my favorite and I'm glad me High School is allowing us to read it in class. They should make more books like this.
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Summary: Two Old Maybe?
Review: The entire time I was reading this book I was expecting the next page to become "The Great Book". It however failed me. I guess I may be too old or distant from my teenage years to fully understand Holden. (Wait, I am only 23.)I can however say it may have taught people lessons about life, especially young adults or it wouldn't of become this "GREAT MASTERPIECE" everyone has been talking about for fifty years. To me it was like phantom of the opera, although I really didn't want to read the book, I did, because it was supposed to be a great Literature Masterpiece. Maybe I should stop being a follower. I am wasting too much time.
Two Stars because 1. I liked some of the dialouge and 2. It only took me three hours to read.
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Summary: Lame in '51, lame today.
Review: The famed 'edge' of this book and its protagonist is about as sharp as a bowling ball. The book reads like Salinger wanted to be cutting edge and acceptable for publication by a conservative 50's editor all at the same time. Want it on the edge? Then read "The Rules of Attraction".
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Summary: I'm not a fan.
Review: The first 40 pages of this book are fine. Then, the dialogue becomes monotonous and boring. Holden says the same thing over and over again. It's always "old Pheobe" or something. Everything is "old." He cusses when he doesn't need to.
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Summary: A phony in search of innocence
Review: The first book i read in 1999 was Catcher in the Rye, and I have never seen nor experienced a more delightful piece of literature. However, looking over the past 739 reviews, i was dismayed at the number of people who remarked that the book was terrible due to the fact of Holden being a "phony" himself, those who remarked that missed the point of the book entirely. True, Holden is a phony, however, he's a unique phony. In the world we have today, it is impossible to find one who is not in part a phony. However,what sets Holden apart from all you lousy phonies out there is that he is a phony in search of innocence, and there's nothing phony about innocence. And in the end, Holden found it. i'll admit that it wasn't a matter of glorious spritual triumph, but it was a discovery entertaining us in everyday life, and it is as weighty as victories such as the Battle of Waterloo and acheiving Nirvana.
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Summary: Greatest Teenage Character Study Ever Written! A MUST-READ!
Review: The first thing you need to know about the book's plot is this: nothing happens...and yet everything happens. It's that simple. Salinger takes us on a journey through 48 hours of one boy's life as he gets kicked out of Pencey Preparatory School ("molding boys into splendid, clear-thinking young men"). He's flunking every class but English. This is just before Christmas, so you can just imagine what this must do to his peace-on-earth-goodwill-to-men spirit. He decides to ditch the last couple days of school and heads for home where he hopes to say good-bye to his much-loved younger sister Phoebe before he heads out West where it's pretty and sunny and nobody'd know him and he could pretend to be a deaf-mute. That's it. That's the "action." Over the course of those 48 hours, the sixteen-year-old Holden fights, smokes, drinks, hires a prostitute (unconsummated) and writes an English composition about a baseball glove. Through it all, there's his voice. Oh, what a voice. Salinger builds the book based on the cadences of language. Every "anyway," every "boy," is carefully calculated according to the Principle Law of Staccato and Repetition. The art of this book is that you don't see the art of it. Salinger took ten years to artfully create an easily readable, stylized first person narrative that to this day remains unmatched. If you haven't read this book yet, you'll enjoy it now. Other books I highly recommend: To Kill A Mockingbird, The Losers' Club by Richard Perez
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Summary: just a godamn book......
Review: The first thing you'll probably want me to say is how great 'The Catcher in the Rye' is, and how it changed my life, and all that existential angst crap - but I don't feel like saying that, if you want to know the truth. It's just a book, for chrissakes, about some lousy goddamn kid who goes to New York for a few days. If there's one thing I hate, it's phoney books. Don't even mention that Holden Caulfield guy to me. So he's a bit screwed up and all. So what? And don't start talking about the human condition, either - I'm touchy as hell about that. We've all gone through that madman stuff; I don't need some goddamn crazy author telling me how it feels. I know how itfeels. I swear to God, if I ever saw that JD.Salinger I'd go right up to him and tell him what a corny book he's written. I'd really get a bang out of that. You know, I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw. If I read a great book and somebody asks me if I liked it, I'm liable to say I hated it. It's awful. 'Catcher in the Rye' - a masterpiece of American vernacular and all.
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Summary: I wonder what really does happen to the ducks?
Review: The first time I read the Catcher, I hated it. I realize why, now. The reason is this: I consider it a cardinal sin to not finish a book the same day I started it. So I tried to read the Catcher all at once and, really, I like Holden and all, but how much of his rambling can you take? I sat there for hours listening to him going ON and ON and ON and ON. I pity the poor psychiatrist who had to sit across from him and listen to all that. But, to make a long story short, I rediscovered my copy of the Catcher under my bed one morning and reread it. This time I stretched the reading over a week and discovered that I enjoyed the book MUCH more! To those who complain that the book is plotless, I agree with you completely. But that doesn't mean it isn't good! For those who say it's 'vulgar' and 'inappropriate', well, let me tell ya, the language Holden uses is very mild compared to what I hear every day at school (I am a thirteen-year-old attending middle school). You know, there must be certain advantages to being crazy -- J.D. Salinger is obviously a raving lunatic and yet he created this masterpiece. I wonder what really happens to the ducks in the winter? I wonder what happened to Holden? I can still see him, looking the same as the day I discovered him, walking the streets of some big city and waging a private war against all the phonies in the world.
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Summary: Well done
Review: The first time I read this book I thought that Holden had the world figured out. The second time I read it I saw how deeply troubled he actually was. The last time I read it I realized that this book was about me.
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