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Summary: The man who wrote this should be in an asylum.
Review: This book was a complete waste of paper. It had some interesting points but, it had no plot. It also turned out to be a major dissappointment because it ended so poorly. It should have been some elaborate lie that he had thought up while telling his sister. His parents should have played a bigger role in the book. The one part I did like was him talking to his brother.
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Summary: awsome
Review: this book was a great read i recommend it for ages 13-100 i thought it was a very well written book.
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Summary: Well written but confusing!
Review: This book was a little confusing but it was well written. It didn't really keep my attention through the whole book but certain parts I liked. The parts I liked the best were all the sections about Allie. I don't really like books that are about peoples lives. I like to have a plot and if not a mystery. The book was well written and was defininately not hard to read. Holden was a great character for the book. J.D. Salinger really captured the voice of a teenager. While reading you could really give Holden a voice and you could hear him talking. This book lets people know what the life of a teenager back in the forties was really like. It captures some of the problems and the turmoil that someone might and could of had back then. J.D. Salinger has written a good book.
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Summary: The most overrated book of the 2nd half of the 20th Century
Review: This book was a sensation when I first read it in 1956 as a teenaged prep school boy. I loved it then. Today I can't understand what all the noise was about. Salinger was known for his alienated presence. Today this is a common trope in literature and films. The prototype of all teen angst books, it seems incredible to me that anyone can read it anymore without laughing out loud. He gets points for being early (though he was predated by decades by Stephen Dedalus, the anti-hero of James Joyce's Ulysses). All in all this book is best left a fond (read:foolish) memory.Lest some find this an ungenerous appraisal, let me refer them to my review of "Mrs. Dalloway," a truly timeless book whose protagonist has far less in common with us today yet whose prose remains brilliant and untarnished by time. EKW
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Summary: Could be one of the most overrated books ever
Review: This book was a sensation when I first read it in 1956 as a teenaged prep school boy. I loved it then. What the hell, it was about me. That's how we all felt in 1956, we preppy, suicidal virgins. Today I can't understand what all the noise was about. Salinger was known for his alienated presence. Today this is a common trope in literature and films. The prototype of all teen angst books, it seems incredible to me that anyone can read it today without laughing out loud. This includes modern teens who have to see this museum piece as stilted and embarrassing. Salinger gets 3 stars for being early, but like a pop record that everyone just loved 45 years ago and today seems tinny and phony, it just doesn't hold up. All in all this book is best left a memory. EKW
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Summary: I Loved This Book
Review: This book was a truely good book. No joke. I had to read it for school and I figured it'd be like every other "good book", like to kill a mockingbird. this book is simply good. Its the best book i've ever read. I could identify with this book more than anything else in my entire life. I'm a 15 year old kid and I loved it. I give it my best reccomendations but be ready to think about the stuff he says its truely deep.
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Summary: prep school drop out
Review: This book was a very good book to read as a teenager. Holden is going through alot of stuff that some teens have to go through. He was being kicked out of almost every school that he went to and was just sent along to anouther one. He left his last school after being notified that he was being kicked out and started roming the streets. Now Holden did have money that he had saved up so he went to hotels and bars and aventually turned to getting girls weather they were ones he met at clubs, bars or even a prostitute once. He didnt want his family to know that he had gotten kicked out yet again, like any normal teenager, so he decided to only go home to see his sister late at night. He loved his sister, basically because he could talk to her, even if she was really upset that he got kicked out. This book shows holdens life and all of his struggles, many teens are either kicked out of school or they drop out not really knowing how the real world is. Holden went through many money issues and even being manipulated by people of the outside world that he didnt even know. He lived by the day at either hotels or at old teachers houses. Something I really like about the book is the ending the last chapter when he says " I could probably tell you what I did after I went home, and how I got sick and all and what school I'm supposed to go to next fall, after I get out of here but I dont feel like it". He dosent really tell you what is going to happen in his future maybe because he dosent know. you can tell by the end of the book that he is tired of people asking him questions about applying himself and wanting to go to school and all of that but he dosent know nor it seems like he dosent care what really happens, and teens act the same way, that is why I think that this book is a fantastic book to read if you are a teen.
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Summary: Great, but not always fully understood
Review: This book was a very interesting portrayal of a young mans mind. The author did a good job of explaining things in way of thought. It seems to me that this book is sometime misunderstood, though the meaning lies in the thoughts of the reader. I believe that there is more to this book than meets the eye. Otherwise, it's simply just a book about nothing in particular, which would seem quite usless to me. You see, some believe that the meaning of the Catcher in the Rye is different in different books. This book has been a favorite of almost all serial killers, and the basis for some movies. I belive that there is a reason for that. Couldn't it be that the insane or mentally disturbed see something that the layman can't. Mabey common folks don't look into the depths of this novel. Now, when I first starting reading this book, I wanted to go into it with a open, and deep thinking mind. You must try to be the character to relate with the thoughts, and it actually works!!! If your just starting to read it, try to understand the way Holdens mind works. I believe that it is inevitabel that you'll understand the book, and even give it a meaning of your own.
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Summary: Not So bad not so good
Review: This book was actually pretty good. It was full of humor and adult themes that keep you turning pages as long as you can. The book is well written but is sometimes hard to follow due to its stream of consciousness style it is written in. The one thing i can say is i do not recommend this novel for younger readers as it has many foul words and adult concepts such as underage drinking drugs and sex. Overall if you enjoy a good book with great humor whit and excitment this book written over half a century ago is for you. Just don't expect to get a moral or theme out of it.
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Summary: A Masterpiece!
Review: This book was almost impossible to put down once I started reading it and after finishing it I knew why. It was so easy to read the way Salinger worded everything almost like Holden Caulfield was telling his story to you in person. The characters were almost three-dimensional, making them quickly identifiable with people in real life easier than in any other book I have ever read. Also to my amazement the language seemed quite shocking to me considering it was written during the 1950's-even though I was aware that it was widely banned at that time. Still nothing can take away from this perfectly written masterpiece whom I would recommend to just about anyone.
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