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Summary: One of the Best Novels Ever
Review: This was an awesome work. It is truly a classic book. Brilliant!
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Summary: Easy to understand.
Review: This was an easy to read book. As I read this book, it felt as if I were reading about myself. If the book wouldn't have said that it was written in the 50's, I would have thought it was written in the 90's.
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Summary: Great book, great buy
Review: This was my favorite book from highschool reads, i like how it had a not sad ending. And had some funny moments,that were so true to life. Good short read, great price.
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Summary: Timeless
Review: This was my first Salinger work. Having been one of the few people amongst my friends to not have read 'The Catcher in the Rye', I decided to finally pick it up and give it a try. I knew nothing about the book's premise or character(s). Having gone into the experience blind, I feel that I came away with more than I may have otherwise. On the outside, Salinger provides a story way ahead of its time. He achieves this by using amazingly modern prose in a book half a century old. What I thought were late-20th, early-21st century concepts are mentioned in varying degrees of detail, while others are merely implied. Nevertheless, I was taken aback by the coarseness and realness of Salinger's words. They made the Holden Caufield character that much more tangibly real and relatable. It also seems that Salinger was intent on making a social statement with this book. My interpretation of it is quite different than other readers, but that is this book's greatest quality--it's packed with symbolism in so many places and in so many ways that every reader can guarantee herself a unique, one-of-a-kind experience. While the story seemed a bit too unimportant at times, by the end, Salinger leaves you with a growing sense of reflection and intrigue as to what Holden is really about, and what the author was really trying to say through his famous disgruntled teenager. I would definitely recommend this book to just about anyone; should you choose to make its story a personal mantra or write a dissertation on its implied social views, you'll enjoy the book all the same. 'The Catcher in the Rye' provides a large gift in a little package.
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Summary: "Loaded with rocks.."
Review: This was my introduction to "real reading". Before reading this book, I had kept to what I will call "easier" reading. "Catcher in the Rye" was assigned to us by our English Teacher, as a part of our undergraduate English class. Our teacher, Ms. Syring, knew the book by heart. She seemed to tell us each day what was coming next. At times, this was the most annoying thing that she could have done. Yet in the beginning while reading the book, her telling us what was to come kept our class interested. (Imagine teaching English litterature to a bunch of Accounting students!) I sat many hours on the train back and forth to school, reading the book, chapter after chapter. (And I have read the book many times since then..) Holden is a character I can identify with. I surely believe that at some point in life, every single one of us goes through a stage such as Holden's. The book reflects on the different situations and insecurities many of us have, or will be facing, in life. J. D. Sallinger wrote the book in 1951, but Holden's struggle in life is as valid in 2001, as is was back then. If you only read one book this year, make that this one!
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Summary: This was a great book
Review: This was one of the best books I ever read. I can relate to Holden because I have some of the same opinions he has. The only thing I did not like was the ending, it sucked.
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Summary: great
Review: This was one of the best books i've ever read it was grea
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Summary: Beautiful
Review: This was one of the best books I've ever read. The Catcher in the Rye is beautiful. I could totally relate to Holden, he was such a complex character; he actually seemed like a real person, something so hard to find in a book. I started the book two days ago, and finished it this morning. I was so disappointed when it was over; I didn't want it to end.
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Summary: Am I missing something?
Review: This was one of the worst books I have ever read! I thought that I was missing out on not reading the "classics" while I was in high school....so, I decided to work my way through them now that I'm in my 30's. If this book is an example of what I will be getting into, I'll stop now. The Holden charactor rambled on and on about things, jumping from one subject to another and mainly focusing on his self absorbed thoughts of life and people. I felt nothing but distaste for him because he was such a whiner that wanted to blame everyone else for his laziness. At the end of the book all I wanted to do was say "WAAAAAAAA!". How in the world do these books get a classification of being a "classic"????
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Summary: Hauntingly sad...
Review: This was one of those books that they made you read in junior high. I read it back then, wrote the paper that was required of me and moved on. Now...12 years later, I decided to re-visit the classics and see if I could get something out of them this time around. Of course, "Catcher.." was on my list and I'm glad that it was. This book really deserves two or three readings (at least) in order to really understand where Holden is coming from. Holden is so far ahead of his time. He still is. He will always be ahead of his time. He is a young man struggling to comprehend a world that makes no sense and one that offers him nothing in the way of challenges. I have not yet hit the big 30, but I constantly find myself looking for something to question. Enlighten me. That's what this book has done. It's a shame that teachers have to force a child to read a book such as this. Wouldn't it be nice if teachers could just put the suggestions out there and let their students decide for themselves. Wouldn't students get a lot more out of their reading if they did?
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