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Summary: Teenage Angst Galore!!! You'll love Holden and his Antics!!!
Review: Catcher in the Rye.... well talk about zany characters that can be real... whew... they're all crazy in the head... you'll have a blast of the past.... where Holden ( the main character) meets these mundane characters as he ventures the streets of New York after being axed from school... You'll meey queers and over-acting Actors who seem to be enjoying themselve... well you have to read it to enjoy it....
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Summary: one of the best...
Review: Catcher is one of the best books I've ever read. Every teen should read it...they'd like it. Just sit down one day and read it. It goes by quickly... Happy Reading!
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Summary: everyone is a little crazy, but methinks that is kinda nice
Review: Catcher is the perfect book to read when you are in your angsty teen years. Not only did this book inspire me to purchase a hunting hat, i also intend to name a child, or perhaps a dog, after our disaffected antihero Holden Caulfield. the boy every high school student should feel at least some empathy toward. Holden Caulfield let us know that sometimes it's fine to be a little offbeat. touching, funny and just a little whimsical, my life would be all the poorer without knowing that the world is full of Holden Caulfields. A masterwork of touching human understatement.
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Summary: punchy,gutsy,absolutely true-no appologies for being human
Review: Caution: loyalties to traditional ethics may become tarnished. Once you read this book it seeps in and eats away like intelectual cancer urging you to realise certain things that you may not want to, or are unwilling to accept - it exposes the frivalty of social behavour, placing a wholly impotent charge on the effect of one person on another. It will be the best book or it will be the worst book you ever read, either way it effects you.
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Summary: The Catcher In The Wry
Review: Contrary to popular opinion, I think this book is slightly misunderstood. J D Salinger's famous novel is actually very amusing and witty. It is not all morose teen-angst and frustration. By far the most enjoyable bits of the book, (to me anyway!) are when Holden is making fun of the 'phonies' around him. Like the guy outside the cinema who has to take a step back before he can speak just so everyone notices him. That cracked me up. I don't quite know how this book has gotten such a strange reputation as being connected to psychotics and conspirators. It is a shame because there is a lot more charm to Holden than a bunch of loony bins.
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Summary: SIMLY OK
Review: Contrary to the fact that this book is considored a classic, I disagree. This book, though it gave an interesting interpretation of the world through a "brats" eyes, was not beautifully written or delievered by the main character. Many my think that i was turned off by the books raw language, believe me, that was one of the ups of the book. I also thought the the story and the other characters could have been more developed and more 3 demsional, as a result of this it would help the reader feel a much more personal relationship with the main character. Also who the heck wants to read a story about a kid who complains about everything, just send me back to highschool. If you want to read a book that deals with life and human beahavior, and has and interesting, in-depth story to accompiany it, just read "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kensey.
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Summary: Best book I have ever read
Review: Cynical teenager, Holden Caulfield is expelled from yet another prep school. Deciding to leave early, he spends two days in a void, after his time at this school and before confronting his parents about the rejection. He roams his hometown of New York City, pondering his sketchy future and looking sneeringly at the lot of phonies and conformists that make up the society. The entire book is written in the insignificant tongue and stream-of-conscious of its protagonist whose observations are sharp amd stinging. Many people walk about in an aura of pretense but never really seriously think about it. This book will change that. Every condemnation of a braggy peer, self-absorbed night club crowd, pretentious movie, show-off piano player and the serious consideration that it may be best to just leave the world behind and find a new career in a faraway western town is so sharp and well exaplified. After the Second World War, society called for a return to normalcy, including steady incomes and material status symbols. Salinger is the only writer I have read to display just how much is wrong with that and I am sure anyone reading will see how little the book's themes of psuedointellectualism, clique-monging and celebrity worship have deteriorated. I greatly enjoyed what the book was written about and I also liked how the book was written. In chapter 8, Holden walks from a hotel lobby to a cab. On his way out he thinks about an old friend, her personality, her family, her lips. One feels less like he or she is reading about a walk out to the street, but reading the thoughts of the main character. An irreplaceable book.
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Summary: Catcher in the Wry
Review: Cynicism, ennui and negativity... it must be a guy thing.Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from boarding school and is rambling home. On the way he examines life from a purposeless, directionless man-child perspective that is totally lost on me. My husband, however, tells me that "Catcher in the Rye" is a true representation of the male internal life in late-adolescence. Too bad they make both genders read it in school. Seems like a no-brainer that the grrrls won't understand. Well, I suppose it's good training for the rest of life...
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Summary: Poor Holden
Review: Dawson's Creek for the literary set.
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Summary: Holden is me.
Review: Dear Prospective Readers I am very glad that I had a chance to read this 'one of a kind' book through the process of my life. I am confident that you will appreciate it as much, if not more than I. Holdens thought, perspective, and view of his life and his ambition captured me. Not to mention that he is a perfect gentleman. Something that we all should be. Pick up this book, read it, pass it along.
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