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Summary: Not the best book I have ever read
Review: To begin with I must write that this isn't certainly the best book I have ever read. Sometimes it's boring, especially when Holden complaines all the time. However, I liked this guy. Especially his critical comments on all these fools around him. The fact that I can somehow relate to this guy is the best thing in this book.
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Summary: My Favorite Book- A True Masterpiece
Review: To everyone who has not read this book, I say to you read it. This book is my favorite book as I have read it at least four or five times. Everyone can seem to identify with the main carachter Holden and his teenage rebellion. It also shows us, through Holden's love for his sister, that even the seemingly roughest people we know still have a smooth, tender heart. Salinger has written an excellent book with of great prose, beautiful flow, and great monolouges and dialouges of Holden. His ability to show us so clearly how Holden feels is simply extra icing on a great cake. I would recommed this book to anyone, despite any contraversies that arise around it. Although it hasn't changed my life, it has changed the way I think. Please pick it up, because you won't be able to put it down.
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Summary: It's there for you to read, but I won't pick it up again.
Review: To Joseph Childs, previous reviewer, I couldn't have said it better myself. I, too, had not read this book until my 20s. And I, too, had thought I was missing something. But I echo your comments that this book was not great nor was it bad. It was just ho-hum. After I finished the book I wasn't enlightened, happy, sad, or anything on the spectrum of emotions that lie on either side of average. I probably yawned and said, "well, done with that one." Holden is one of those characters who represent people that I have never particularly cared for in life. In fact, people like him annoy me something fierce. But, as these reviews and history shows, there are a great number of people who can relate and who love this book. I only give it two stars, because it was just an average book for me. Even so, I would still recommend that it be read, because if these reviews are any indicator, chances are you'll probably like it.
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Summary: My Absolute Favorite Book of All Time!
Review: To make a long story short: this is a great book, one of the best ever written. I read this book last year in 8th grade and it kept me interested until the very last page. The author, J.D. Salinger really does a great job creating sometimes sad and dramatic moments while narrating the story in a very informal way, like he's your friend. This helps the reader to see everything through Holden's (the main character) eyes even more. You become immersed in the story. Although Holden doesn't appear to be very smart, I think he is a genius. If you take a closer look at what he says you can really get a lot out of this book. I promise you won't want to put this book down.
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Summary: A true dipiction of the problems with coming of age .
Review: To many times teenager's beliefs and emotions are taken for granted. Teenagers are often left feeling that there is no one that feels as they do. One great book for proving to all
teengers in a humorous way that they are not alone is "Catcher in the Rye". "Catcher in the Rye" is a book that all teenagers should at sometime read, the sooner the better. In the book the main character, Holden Caulfield,
is unable to deal with the problems that he is facing with himself. As a result of his inability to handle his feelings he
seperates himself from his peers and sociaty in general eventally driving him crazy. Holden teaches teenagers that they must deal with the way that they see themselves or suffer the rath of they're own hormones.
Though the results of Holdens actions might seem a tad harsh, the way it is presented is as real and intense as the emotions that everyone feels at puberty. "Catcher in the Rye" not only gives the reader a good laugh but a sense of belonging. Reading "Catcher in the Rye" will leave a smile on your face and something to talk about
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Summary: THE CATHER IN THE RYE IS GREAT FOR THE MIND
Review: To me this book is very good. Some people may find that this book starts off slow. To me though this book starts off fast enough for me. you will find that this boy describes how some peoples life go. He will show you that life is not always fair but sometimes you just have to deal with it. In this book the author dives right into the book. There is no delay. This book is worth you entire summer to read it. If you don't understand the book then just put it down for a little while and let you mind do the thinking for you. I suggest that you read this book as soon as possible. There was nothing that I did not like, everything that was in here I liked. If you are 13 or older you must read this book. The reason why I say 13 is because this book has alot of cursing in it. Otherwise dive right into the book. Jerome David Salinger was born in New York in 1919. His older sister’s name is Doris. His father, Sol, was in the meat and cheese business. His mother, of whom he was very fond, was Irish Catholic. The catcher in the rye was his classic book that everyone knows him by.
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Summary: Much more than a rites-of-passage novel
Review: To quote the author, Catcher in the Rye is the kind book were, "Once you've read it, you wish the author was a great friend of yours and you could ring him on the phone whenever you wanted". On first sight, we are stuck by Salinger's simple style, and as readers we grow more and more appreciative of Holden's language, as he appears to draw us closer and closer as first a friend, then a confidante. We notice upon further reading the downward spiral the lead character's mentality is beginning to take, but never does the book become painful to read, our sympathy for his character remains unaltered. Perhaps this is due to the singular style of writing that Salinger seems to possess, the ability to expertly involve the reader, or perhaps it is due to the sensitive, real - world characterisation. Whatever the reason, seldom has a book representing aleination from modern American culture (see for example Lolita or A Confederacy of Dunces) been so sensitively and delicatly construsted. After reading such a book, you will find your view of conventional society radically altered!
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Summary: the top of literature
Review: To see anyone relate their experience reading this book as one that evoked jealousy of an illiterate is truly sad. This is, in my opinion the best book that has ever, and ever will be written. Anyone who cannot see the bittersweet irony and melancholy Salinger shares with the reader in this masterpiece of literature exposes their incapacity for depth of thought and feeling.
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Summary: The Catcher in the Rye
Review: To start off this review, I think it'd be best to point out that Holden Caulfield is one of the greatest characters in literature history. There are few characters that can claim to be as memorable, as iconic, as Holden, let alone be the kind of partner in pain to all of us that Holden has become. The only two people that could possibly be equal to what Holden has become are James Dean and Kurt Cobain, and those two aren't even involved with the world of literature. Holden Caulfield is indeed mroe than just a great character; he has become the voice of pain to all of those people are depressed for no reason, the disgruntled teenagers going through their troubled phases, the people who think that the world is full of phonies, the people who just can't fit in or become a part of society. Holden Caulfield is a symbol. We all know the plot; nothing. And this is one of the things that I have noticed that people dislike about the book, the fact the book is virtually plotless. And I have to say, I laugh at those who are so narrow minded that they can't even accept such a "drastic" branch off from normality as a book that is more like a series of connected events rather than a plot. I can't wait till you get to read Finnegans Wake. But, as I've already stated, the book is "plotless," more like a series of events then a story, and that just contributes all the more to what the book is. The book is just a window into a mind that has come to symbolize the eternally unhappy. And what an eternally unhappy mind it is; everywhere he goes Holden calls people "phonies," talks about the things that bother him, the things that sadden him, attacks the word "marvelous"-just pretty much Holden's stream of conscience. And as the novel goes on we follow him wherever he goes, from his professor's home (can't remember his name, or even if he was his professor) before he leaves him boarding school (can't remember that either,) to his room where he meets his roommate that he just hates, to a New York hotel, to a club, to a rendevous with a prostitute, to just about everywhere else. And through the novel we peer into his eternally unhappy mind, watch him make all sorts of observations about what's going on around him as well as life, just watching him live and exist. Hopefully, you'd think that this novel'd be for everyone. I really do doubt that there are many of us here who feel exactly the same way about exactly the same things as Holden. But there are however, many of us, millions of us, the majority of us even, who do feel for Holden. There are countless observations of his and feeling sthat went through I personally couldn't help but know, one example being the lonely depressed walk that eh takes through a New York park. And there also many among us who do feel there are at least a few "phonies" in the world, Holden's trademark. And if you don't feel any way in relation to Holden, not even to a minal degree, then chances are that you are one of those people that Holden attacked.
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Summary: Wanted to like it, but didn't
Review: To start off, I realize it's just this side of sacrilege to not like this book, but the frustration of hearing Holden blaming everyone else for his predicaments just got to be too much work for me to endure. I started reading this book with great expectations, given the wonderful reviews this book has received since the time it was published, but after the fifth time Holden ranted about how everyone but him was screwed up I started to stop caring. It's one thing to read about childhood angst, or the pressures and stresses of adolescence, but Holden's attitude at first made me concerned, then sad, and finally, apathetic. There was no growth on the part of Holden, nor was there any inkling on his part that a majority of his problems are of his own making. Even the pleadings of his "favorite" teacher fell on deaf ears. I've got news for you Holden, life is hard, and it takes a lot of work. Maybe Holden will someday grow up and start to see life differently, but within the confines of this book, Holden is just one of those guys you end up shaking your head at while thanking heaven you aren't him. Perhaps I just missed the point...
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