Rating: Summary: A good look into teen depression Review: I loved The Catcher in the Rye. Im not a big reader but I read this whole big and I loved it. Its a book that makes you think while you read and laugh. Holden lets you in on how he feels and how his mind works. I would definitly give it 5 stars.
Rating: Summary: Good idea but would work better in a shorter form Review: I loved the narrator's "talking style" as someone else here referred to it. I was amazed that a book written in that common language style of the 40s would fit in very well with the language many teens use today. Almost undated at all. Only in his outward respect to elders which today's cynical kids don't display.My problem with the novel is the humor and freshness wears thin after about 80-90 pages. I think this novel could have been half the length and would have been much more effective.
Rating: Summary: Irony at its best Review: I loved this book because of its brutal honesty and its irony. The main character Holden Caulfield is the extreme of most people, he thinks like the majority. It is ironic because Holden is everything he hates and everything he complains about. Some people may not like the book because it is so brutally honest and sadly a lot of people think like him. People are always judging and act the way they don't like others to act. Overall it is a book of bluntness and hypocritcal acts. I read this book on my own free time and not as a school assignment and I am glad I did. This book is for people who have a deeper sense of humor and not the generic kind. By all the irony and everyday situations it eventually drives Holden insane. Anyone can find alittle bit of themselves in this character.
Rating: Summary: One of My Favorites... Review: I loved this book the first time I read it and it just gets better every time. You get to look into the mind of a boy, Holden, who is obviously having trouble dealing with life in general and even though this kid is not all there you can connect with him. Some of the things Holden feels I am sure we have all felt before such as the way he looks at people as "phonies". He looks at society as being full of people that just aim to please others and don't speak their mind even though he is one of those people. This book is a must read!
Rating: Summary: An interesting observation Review: I loved this book, but since over a thousand people have listed why this book is so good, I won't go into it. This book has obviously influenced a lot of the current writers out there (I almost felt like I was reading Nick Hornby or Brett Easton Ellis), but the thing that gave me the biggest kick was when I finally made the connection between the characters named 'Holden' and 'Banky' in Kevin Smith's movie Chasing Amy. Obviously taken from this book. (Remember Ed Banky, with the car?) I love little bits of trivia like that. Read this book, and re-read it if you hated it, because it is truly hilarious. I read it at thirteen, at seventeen, and now at twenty five, and it is still awesome.
Rating: Summary: Read this book!! Review: I loved this book, i couldn't put it down! If you have a chance to pick up this book at your local library. It was very intellectually written and I would read it again if I had the chance!
Rating: Summary: very good, takes a couple of reads... Review: I loved this book, personally. I rate it four stars only because of a few parts (Holden TRYING to get drunk, but not even doing a good job of that... etc.,) I would highly recommend it though. Try reading it a couple of times first- it helps to grasp the author's message. Also see 'leo@fergusrules.com' and 'portrait of the artist as a young man' for good books of this subject matter.
Rating: Summary: awesome Review: i loved this book. even though i could not relate with everything that holden was going through, i could understand a lot of his problems. his actions prove that teenagers have a lot harder lives than most adults want to admit to. holden is the poster child of evrthing that is screwed up with this world and shows that we seriously need to fix it. even though it was written a long time ago, it easily transposes it self to the modern time. everyone should have to read this book.
Rating: Summary: enthralling Review: I loved this book. I have several copies (no, I am not crazy) and I give them away to my friends when I think they need to read some good literature. Will someone please tell me the importance of this book in the movie Conspiracy Theory?
Rating: Summary: ONLY INTELLIGENT PEOPLE WILL UNDERSTAND THIS. Review: i loved this book. i'm telling everyone out there who actually has one iota of intelligence that this is one of the most revealingly honest books ever written. as holden caulfield would say, "this is for real". if you have any interest in the truth of the human condition, you better have an eye on the catcher, and that's a fact.
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