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Summary: Fantastic book for young teenagers
Review: This book should be a coming of age ritual for all adolescents. I remember picking this up, in the dredge of hormone burst around fourteen or fifteen that left me with a constant snicker and cynicism I was not accustomed to feeling. Right away, the growing cynic in me began yelling "amen Holden preach on!" as he nailed those phonies for what they were and went it alone. Me and Holden, we had it all figured out. However, while reading the book a transformation and realization took place. The more I identified with Holden, the more I could see how his outlook was dragging him into a depression. I started to disagree with the outlook, and while sympathetic, I felt like there was something more to people. In a way, this book helped me grow up, helped me realize just how arrogant I was, how scared I was and how much of the world was left for me to discover. I have never found another book so perfect for the time of my life when I read it. A masterful work. A great painful gift that every young man should experience. The Catcher and The Rye showed me what a great book can do.
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Summary: HORRIBLE AND BORING
Review: THis book should have been called: " THE BORING MEMOIRS OF TWO DAYS IN A TEENAGER'S LIFE ".. Nothing happens here !! I'm not a little bit shocked by the supoosed " alienation " demonstrated by the mais character, the awful Houlden Caulfield. What a waste of time !!
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Summary: Required reading for all young teenagers.
Review: This book should not only be read but studied by all students during their first or second years of high school. I did both and have been rereading it ever since.
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Summary: A High School Novel About a High School Kid.
Review: This book shows the life of a teenager who decides to go on his own. Holden Caulfield ( the main character) gets tired of school and his surroundings and leaves. Salinger is a brilliant writer by the way he brings teenage life to reality so readers can understand what its like. He writes about how his life is impacted by what goes around him in his journey through New York. While in New York he searches his life to find some kind of truth in it. He goes through a depression and almost loses it but the dramatic events that happen change his view of life.In the beginning of this book he writes about how Holden struggles through different prep schools. Each school he tries to help out some of his loser friends but not one changes so instead of confirming to their ways he leaves and heads out on his own. This book is a must read for all teenagers, or whoever is considering buying it and reading it or giving it to someone, I strongly believe you should. Take the risk.
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Summary: What's the point?
Review: This book started out pretty good. In fact, the middle was fair, but the ending was atrocious. This book is about Holden Caulfield, a young man that isn't enjoying a whole lot of life. He's been kicked out of yet another prep school and he's on his way back home to be chastised by his family. The book is in first person and it is Holden telling the story. Throughout, we are introduced to several of Holden's old acquaintences and what he thought of them. The story progresses all the way to the point where Holden returns home and visits with his younger sister. And THEN.... bam.... the ending... which wasn't there. I really didn't enjoy this book much. It reads quickly, which is about the only thing going for it. Even in it's briefness, it was wordy and had many two page paragraphs, which most high school English teachers would blow a gasket over. I enjoyed the slang, but it seemed overdone. It's not one of the worst books I've ever read, but in it's in the lower 10%. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone who actually enjoys reading for a well thought out story with a good ending. I would recommend it to high school students who have reading requirements. Like I said, it reads quickly.
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Summary: A Coming of Age Novel
Review: This book tells the tale of a 16-year old boy, Holden Caulfield, who got expelled from prep school and throughout the book he seems to be looking for something, kind of like an aimless wander to find subtlety. It gave a new dimension to reading, with the narrator being more sagacious and cynical, as opposed to the more amaible narrators in previous books up to that time, and it realistically gives an accurate insighty to a cofused adolescent's life during a time of such confusion and experiences. It's definitely an honest and a no-holds-barred book, and it may be a stretch to say that this book is almost 'mandatory reading,' but it should definitely be read no matter who you are.
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Summary: I absolutely loved this book.
Review: This book took me by surprise. I picked it up at the beach one day and couldn't put it down. Holden is such a disturbed, but loveable character. He purifies himself by analyzing people so well. He can not be fooled. There's nothing really special about the book, other than the fact that it is truly titilating and extremely interesting. You never know what he is going to do next and it keeps you reading. I've read it three times already!
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Summary: Greatest Adolescent I've Ready So Far
Review: This book touched me in many personal ways. I read it my junior year of high school and was amazed of the similariies between Holden and I. I can understand how some people may not enjoy this book becaue of Holden's pessimistic view on life. But to endeavor into his world when everything is falling apart is entertaining and compelling. By far, one of my top books of all time.
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Summary: this book was a peice of dung
Review: This book wansn't that bad. the story couldn't have been better. I was described as if Holden was talking to you. I think J. D. Salinger is a great author.
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Summary: A Classic. Why is it banned?
Review: This book was a classic tale of teenage angst. Holden's character was compelling as an anti-everything kind of guy. As far as the extreme vulgerness that is supposedly in this book, it is minor and probably equates to 5 minutes of MTV
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