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Summary: the best
Review: This is one of the best novels I have ever read. It is funny and real. The character is very realistic and one is able to really relate to him. Salinger wrote a great American novel.
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Summary: A True Mastepiece!
Review: This is one of the finest books I have ever read. Salinger writes well on Holden's thoughts and feelings. We know exactly what he feels about people, aka phonies, and society. I would recommend this book to anyone despite its controversies. In fact read every single banned books for they are banned because they raise clever yet, rebellious questions. This book enforces that we shouldn't be controlled by phonies in this cynical world.
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Summary: Absolutely Amazing
Review: This is one of the most amazing bokos I have ever read. It touches upon so many subjects, and even though written half a century ago, it still captures the whole span of human experience.
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Summary: AWESOME BOOK!
Review: This is one of the most captivating novel. i like the fact that Holden is not the typical teenager who has to follow "phony" grown ups. I indeed enjoy this book and recommend this to any teenager who doesn't like read, you sure enjoy it after reading this novel.
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Summary: This book rocks!
Review: This is one of the most famous of all "Coming of age" novels. It's right up there with Twain's "Huck Finn," Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird," and McCRae's "Bark of the Dogwood." This is a totally awesome book and it's amazing to think that it was banned at one time! Great story told through the eyes of a teenager! This book rocks!
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Summary: I am the illegitimate son of Holden Caulfield and Boo Radley
Review: This is one of those books that haunts you. Much like a great film or a great piece of music The Catcher In The Rye stays with you, and that is how I judge greatness. This book is pretty much the angy loner's handbook. It seems like every stalker or mad gunman has a copy in his back pocket. I just gotta respect a book that makes people go insane...you know...like the bible. I would have to say Catcher is my second favorite book next to Paradise Lost. These are my opinions and I am absolutely correct.
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Summary: Tools of Ignorance!!
Review: This is one of those books where your interpretation changes as you yourself change. I guess that means that you have less sympathy for the character, an angst ridden adolescent, the older and more mature you get. Yogi Berra said it best....to paraphrase "I thought Catcher in the Rye was about baseball, but it was just about some whiny kid." That being said, the book, released in the early 1950's, portrays Holden Caulfied as the paradoxical "all-knowing/totally confused" adolescent. The story takes place over a period of several days after Caulfield has been expelled from prep school. His cynical observations on his sorry state of affairs and his contempt for teachers, phonies and apparently all adults in general ring amazingly contemporary despite the book's being nearly 50 years old. I read this book in college, then later as a married adult and parent. It speaks volumes to the alienation of youth in a fast-paced engaging prose. For those who read this growing up, it is worth another look from an adult perspective. You'll be amazed at how different your reaction will be from the first time you read it.
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Summary: Holden Caulfield's Teenage Crisis
Review: This is one of those novels you keep for years because you know you will re-read it eventually. My dusty, yellowed copy was first read over 30 years ago when I was in high school, and has been passed along to both of my daughters who also had to read it in high school. Since my 15 year old is reading it now, I decided to re-read it and remind myself why I kept it around all these years. Obviously, my perspective has changed, but the most remarkable feature of the book is its sheer timelessness. Holden didn't have to deal with the temptations of illegal drugs, or AIDS, or the frantic pace of the internet age, but all of his feelings of depression, loneliness, and teenage cynicism are still a part of the coming of age of our youth today. The antics of Holden after he is expelled from prep school are hilarious, frightening and heart-warming. He goes to New York City, gets drunk, smokes pack after pack of cigarettes, has a near-close encounter with a prostitute, gives away some of his dwindling hoard of cash to two nuns, calls up old girl friends, and generally fumbles and stumbles his way back to the safety of his home where all is forgiven. He's basically a good person at heart, but can't stand the phoniness and emptiness of the lives of many of the people around him. The stream of consciousness thinking and dialogue make you feel like you're in Holden's head. With just a few changes of scenery and dialogue, the book could easily be applied to living through the teen years in 2001. 'Catcher in the Rye' is a powerful, significant portrayal of a troubled young person, and it will surely remain on the required reading list for many years to come.
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Summary: Real, Genuine, and Heartbreaking
Review: This is perhaps my favorite novel of all time. While Holden is a whiny, unambitious teenager, his observations on life and the world around him suggest a sadly wasted intellect. As a teacher, this is the aspect of the novel that draws me to it. In the beginning, Holden is telling his story from an unnamed place, where he claims he "came out here to take it easy." He confesses that he doesn't want to share his life story, but rather a few interesting days in which he was expelled from a prep school and made the concious decion not to return home, to roam the streets instead. He cleverly describes that day as "that kind of crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road"(5). And so Holden's misadventure begins. One of the most common complaints involving this novel is its negative language. This is simply a reflection of Holden's pessimistic and negative outlook. Regardless, he is surprisingly insightful. Perhaps the most outstanding scene of the book is when Holden has discovered graffiti at his sisters school, the "f-word" in fact. He is angry, thinking of his sister discovering it. Holden rambles in hos own way about how nothing is sacred: "That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "F--- you" right under your nose. I think, even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a cemetery, and I have a tombstone and all, it'll say "Holden Caulfield" on it, and then what year I was born, and what year I died, and then right under that it'll say "F--- you"(204). In spite of Holden's whiny, negative personality, it is the spark of hope and wasted intelligence in him that gives this novel its life. Brilliant and impressive.
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Summary: American Classic
Review: This is possibly the best book that I have ever read. What Holden tells the readers is not to be fooled by phonies. There is so much going on in this book, it's hard to believe. You think while reading it, it's just a cynical 16-year-old telling us about whats going on in his life, but there is a lot of symbolism. This is the classic "teenager coming of age" story, and every book like it should be judged by this.
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