Catcher in the Rye

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Summary: Dont Read the Cliffnotes, Read the Book...it Rocks!
Review: I am a high school teacher. And let's face it, most of what we have you read is kinda boring. However, there are a couple of books we assign which are really worth it. NO, not a Seperate Peace or Alls Quiest, but books like To Kill a Mockingbird, Julius Caesar, and Catcher in the Rye.

Catcher in the Rye is a great book. The adventures of Holden Caufield will be enjoyed. Holden's mental collapse and visit to NYC are just as relevent now as when Salinger wrote this book years ago.

This is a book that after you are forced to read it in school, that you will read again on your own. Its worth it. Dont Cheat, forget Cliff and Spark notes...read this book. You will be glad you did.

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Summary: True to real life
Review: I am a junior in high school, and I have just finished reading this book on which I have to write a paper. I decided to see what other people thought to get a jump start on my thoughts. And what I found was that from all the people that posted I tended to agree in some way with most of them. I agree that it is a book of teen angst and grief, but one important part is that Holden's own phoniness. Another reviewer gave this book a 1 because he believed that Holden's phoniness was bad. But I believe that it is true to many aspects of the teenage spirit. Holden hated "phonies" but more than once was a "phony" himself. And I often see this own fact in myself and others. Even before I read this book I hated people who protect others from the truth and were phony, yet I protected people from the truth and was a phony as well. "Catcher" also reinforced my idea that private schools are bad. Where everyone is "phony" in private schools to the same degree, it is different in public schools. Each person has their own degrees of phoniness; some people are "super-phonies," while others could be called "phony minimalists." Wiht all these levels of "phoniness" Holden possibly could have found his niche. Please send any comments to :[e-mail]

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Summary: My favourite
Review: I am a reader from Germany. In my mind this book is one of the best I ever read. The reader is able to feel, what the main charakter feels. If you are reading this novel you are Holden himself. I can't stop reading, because I was really moved by this novel. There's no part in this book, you are boored while reading it. The way Salinger wrote the novel is really fantastic. It is written in a very lively stile. It's a really moving story, describing a young boy having a lot of problems. After, and while reading, you start thinking over all the characters in this novel, and about human beiing.I also started reading a german translation which is really terrific, 'cause the way the translator interpret the story is not the way Salinger wanted us to interpret the story. But this is only my own opinion. Please read this novel and build up your own.

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Summary: Greatest Book Of All Time
Review: I am a sophomore in high school and enjoyed reading this book from front to cover. How anyone can possilby say this book is terrible I will not understand. I have to admit that in the first chapters of the book i wanted to quite reading it because it seems boring but once you've read the second chapter you cannot put it down. Adults who say they are only hoping to pull it of a required reading list but are against cencorship are just plain confused. Holden may not be the most "Cheery" person in the world but that doesn't mean anything. I have read this book only once and would read it again in a second. I feel that Holden is not just another case of a manic depressent but is a teenager who just has different views than most people. In many instances Holden proves that he is caring and has a great heart that is in the right place. I am not saying everyone has to enjoy this book but those of you who don't please try to find at least a smigin of good that this book does. If you cannot you are really not a critic your just as sinical.

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Summary: An Easy Read
Review: I am a teen, and I mostly appreciated this book for its easy-to-read style. It flows smoothly and doesn't have sophisticated language that teens have to dig through. Also, it's about problems and stuff that teens can relate to so many appreciate this novel. I knew one guy that you wouldn't expect to even pick up a book, and he read this book just over and over.

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Summary: A very Exiting book
Review: I am a teenager and normaly, books aren't very amusing to me. But one day I took a glance inside this book and I loved it. It was very funny,well written and I recomend it to anyone, especialy teenagers.

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Summary: Awesome.
Review: I am a teenager, and unlike the review below, I read this for pleasure. This book has to be one of the top five of my favorite books. I think that a lot of tennagers cannot relate to Holden because they have never had the feelings of being alone and scared but also trying to grow up at the same time. I do not feel that I can persecute people for the way that they feel about certain things, but I do not think that these people have actually put much thought into their reading. This book is very good and makes you think about things that go on about you. I can understand where Holden is coming from because I feel the same way about people and authority. During a time in his life when he needed his parents most they were not there for him. When he went to New York and talked with Pheobe, he realized that he was very troubled and needed help. If you haven't ever read this book, i recommend it.

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Summary: an ordinary life story
Review: I am an english learner and my teacher told me to read this book for summer.many of you would think that this is a very good book but i don't think so. the book is about a boring story, the only thing that makes it good is the writing. the author has used a very informal language which makes the book natural and more real.if the plot would be more exciting this writer would rule!

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Summary: Something of everybody in this book
Review: I am an italian 18 year-old boy, who has just finished to read the book. I heard of some people who think that in Holden there is nothing of the teenagers of today; i don't agree!! I know that the most of "us" would never want to spent a night with a prostitute, or to get drunk as Holden does, and i agree it is a disgusting style of life, but at the same time i am pretty sure that almost everyone on the earth, teenagers and not, sometimes feels to be depressed, alone, scared by what is around us, weak....

I liked this book because teaches how to solve certain problems and how to respect those people like Holden who seem bad people, but actually are really, really generous.

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Summary: Depression
Review: I am aware that there are a lot of readers out there that believe this to be a classic book. You would think after reading such a 'classic book', I would be forced to give a perfect review, but instead, I am going to be honest in my review, just as I always am. For starters, let me say that this book has a storyline, but no actual plot. The title of the book, "The Catcher in the Rye", would make one think that this is the story about some off-the-wall kid and his baseball story, but instead, it was about an off-the-wall kid and his depressed outlook on life. I will admit that there were parts of this book that caught my interest, but there were not many. By the time I got near the end of the book, I was glad it was so short, because I could hardly tolerate reading it anymore. The main character and narrator, Holden Caulfield, kept speaking in such simple-minded terms that got frustrating very quickly. I hate when people repeat themselves twice in one sentence, that's what I hate, when people repeat themselves twice in one sentence. I also dislike it when a narrator uses the same word over and over again in the same paragraph that you get annoyed when you see the word. In this case, that particular word was a cuss word. I am not saying cuss words in books bother me, it is just irritating to see it used so often that you actually find yourself being insulted by it. Out of this entire book, the only part of it that I think I really enjoyed was Holden's little sister, Phoebe. Perhaps if the book were about her, it would have been better (in my opinion). Overall, I almost gave this book 3 stars for being a 'classic', but then I came to my senses and decided to be fair. This book deserves 2 stars. J.D. Salinger is a nice author, but this was a boring title.