Catcher in the Rye

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Summary: Holden is very abnormal
Review: This book was pathetic and very unreasonable. Not every teenager is like Holden so I really can't relate to the book. A seventeen year old student generally does not wonder off to the city especially in 1945.

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Summary: Not THAT Good (3.5 Stars)
Review: This book was pretty good. At first, I really liked the main character (and narrator) Holden Caulfield. But as the book progressed, I started to like him less and less. While he criticizes people for being "phony", he at times is very "phony". He also made me hate the word "phony". He gets pretty annoying, and he is pretty immature. I really don't feel that sorry for him at all. But don't get me wrong, the book does make you want to keep reading and reading, but in the end, I felt that the book really was like, nothing. Sure it was very different when it first came out, and people all ran to get it, but it wasn't the best book I have read. I can name many books that are far better than this. I got mad at Holden a lot. There is nothing wrong with being a pessimist, but he just hates everything. His sister even asks him at one point in the book if there is even anything that he likes. It's stupid, also, that he keeps flunking out of school. The book is interesting and is worth a read, but it really isn't that great. It starts off kinda low, then gets better and even really good at one point, but then it just goes downhill and I really didn't like it in the end. Read it, though, and make your own conclusions. As Mark Twain once said "A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read." This may be a classic, and I am glad I read it, but I really don't want to read it again. Umm, Enjoy! (?)

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Summary: Who Cares!!! Very Boring. Get 1984 Instead
Review: This book was pretty much a waste of time. Its about a little rich white boy in the early 20th century who make alot of social observations on the formality and un personalness of human interaction in a capitalist system. He get depressed and sees everything as phony and wants to throw away a good education and actually the darn boy doesn`t have any REAL problems. there is rape and murder and oppression and bondage going on and this boy is just so sad that nobody really means "How You Doing" when they say how you doing. This book is just about observations that I thought of when I was 12 or something. Really son go tell it to somebody else. He doesn`t even want to apply himself.

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Summary: ???
Review: This book was probably the most interesring book I have ever read in my 17 years of being on the planet. It was tear jerking, discusting, and best of all- Hilarious. But after I had finished the book, somebody asked me what it was about. I found mysely struggling to answer them and I finally said, I'm not sure. So I give Mr. Sallinger 3 Big stars for a great book. But please-- what is the point??

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Summary: Possibly one of the Worst stories I have ever read
Review: This book was quite simplistic to read, so I gave it a star for that...but the story, or lack there, was awful. I am 15 years old and all I got out of this book is no wonder adults hate teenagers. The narrator, Holden Caulfield, complains throughout the story. Basically he is an umotivated rich kid obsessed with sex. Maybe I am an exception to the whole teenage thing, but I really could not relate to his view on the world. (If Holden met me, he would hate me I think)

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Summary: It is the best book I have read during high school.
Review: This book was really interesting. I thought it would be boring at first, but as I continued reading it I started to enjoy it. Holden Caulfield was a very complex character. I felt that he contradicted himself a lot in the book. Sometimes he would say he didn't like a person or a thing and the next minute he would change his mind. It was a funny book too. I never laugh aloud while reading, but this book was funny in some parts. The things Holden said would make me giggle. In a way the book was depressing. It was about a confused teenager. I thought that Holden lied a lot throughout the book. He would come up with outrageous stories. Overall, I would suggest reading it sometime.

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Summary: I am Holden Caulfield
Review: This book was reccomended by my English teacher to our 11th grade English class. I loved it. I feel a lot like Holden Caufield, because he makes all these little discoveries that other people might miss. Like when he says you can never find a peaceful place, because someone's always writing f-ck you on the wall. That's great. I see that some people gave it one star, and it seems as though a lot of those people were pretty young. I don't think i would have liked it when I was 13, but I sure like it now.

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Summary: The greatest novel of all time; really!
Review: This book was recommended by a friend, and I frankly wasn't at all excited to read it, but I couldn't put it down from the moment I started reading it -- it's truly a classic. You will laugh and cry with the narrator, Holden Caulfield. You are doing yourself a huge disservice if you don't read this book...

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Summary: Magnificant.
Review: This book was recommended to me by a random book store woman in Las Vegas who just came up to me and said, 'I really do think you'll enjoy this book. You seem like you would. I loved it when I was younger.' I was very excited to be recommended such a famous book, and to be told that I seemed like I'd enjoy it. Let me tell you-it isn't worded like any Establishmentarian, but even so, it is still extremely well written. J.D. Salinger really delivers this novel. He tells you straight out how the character feels. No super-fancy wording to describe it. This book is somewhat metaphoric at parts. It seems to make you think-which is good! I highly recommend this book from ages 9 and above. If you don't understand it while you're young, read again later when you're sixteen, and it may make more sense.

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Summary: the "Catcher" in post-modern America
Review: This book was referred to by a teacher in a school for gifted students as- "one of the filthiest books I have ever read" I guess that's one way to see it. I see it as a wonderfully funny and sad experience of our world, where education is done by people who are not educators to students who have other agendas than education and where families have no parents and no children and where the world has lost those strange creatures formerly known as human beings. Not to despair, however, because the book is wonderfully alive with humanity, and is also bizarrely edifying and real