Catcher in the Rye

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Summary: No Offense Intended.
Review: I don't want to sound nasty but I'm a 15 year old girl and I read The Catcher In The Rye because I'd heard so much about how it was a timeless classic and how it perfectly portrayed teenage life etc. But I found the book incredibly boring, very unfunny and totally unrealistic so to speak. This Holden guy was behaving like a 30 year old, not a young teenager like myself and I found the book quite insulting to teenagers. I can't even describe how disapointed I was. Even Sweet Valley High is more realistic than this piece of nonsense.

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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I enjoy reading and I haven't read all the so-called "classics" so every once in a while I'll pick one up to see what all the 'fuss' is about and to say that I've actually read it. This way I don't have the bias of teachers and/or professors etc.
Perhaps it is my upbringing but Catcher in the Rye, for me, was in a word, boring. Holden Caulfield, to me, was not a "psychologically challenged" youth but a whiny teenager who needed a good kick in the pants. It was well written but I found myself continually asking "what's the point?" and when I reached the end my reaction was "That's it?? That's all?" I suppose 'intellectuals' will insist I missed the point but I will remain off the bandwagon and say that I would not recommend this book.

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Summary: The Catcher and the Rye
Review: I enjoyed reading the book a lot. It was really interesting and it was different than most books you usually have to read. I enjoyed that there were a lot of different things you could relate to. Such as the drama of relationships and your grades. At times though, it was hard to follow because he jumped around so much with different topics, but overall I enjoyed the book a lot!!

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Summary: The Catcher in the Rye
Review: i enjoyed reading the book. it was the best one that my class read the entire year. the only reason that it got a 4 instead of a 5 was because i really didn't like the ending to it. i thought that it would end differently than it did. other than that it was one of the best books that i have ever read.

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Summary: Great Book
Review: I enjoyed the book very much. It had great detail and showed how a teenagers mind thinks. It made you always wonder what was going to happen to Holden. It was easy to read and follow along. I recommend it highly.

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Summary: Phony World
Review: I enjoyed the book while I was reading it, the language Holden uses is really good and the slang words suit him perfectly. I liked how JD Salinger gives life to Holden to the point that you feel identified with him and the phoniness of the world.

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Summary: Good and fresh- though not a masterpiece
Review: I enjoyed this book, but would not consider it to be a great piece of literature. It was a great character, one of the best, but still not a very memorable book, in my opinion. Still recommend though, especially to teens.

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Summary: Classic
Review: I enjoyed this book. It remains a classic about the alienation
felt by teens.

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Summary: A major Disapointment
Review: I entered into this book expecting the timeless classic everyone talks about. But it's not, the writing is so-so the story is a bore, the characters are dated and the twists are so overly perfect that it couldn't be real life. The connections Salinger makes throughout the story are so obvious and forced that it made me want to laugh, I could write better then this. A complete waste of an hour!

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Summary: Pointless, Plotless..... !!
Review: I expected The Catcher in the Rye to be an exciting book filled with many lessons and events, but to my disappointment, the novel followed no real plot line ... it was basically a pointless book. Holden Caulfield is just a rich little kid that takes everything for granted and thinks everything and everyone in this world is "phony". I think the only phony in this novel is Holden Caulfield himself. There's really not much else to say about The Catcher in the Rye... it's not as good as everyone makes it out ot be, and Holden Caulfield is a little twerp!