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Summary: Fair- depends on who the reader is
Review: I read this book for required reading sophmore year. (In Salinger's defense, one thing which affected my enjoyment was a terrible English teacher...) but still, while I found its voice was excellent and its assessment of teenage life interesting, I really wonder how many of us have thoughts and experiences like Holden's. Most of us are functioning teenagers, not psychiatric cases like Holden- indeed, the book seems to drift from scene to scene of abandonment and depression. I feel sorry for Caulfield, but I have enough problems in my life to deal with, let alone those from a neurotic fictional character. It's more than a body can take!
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Summary: Awesome!!
Review: I read this book for school, but i'm definitely glad this is the book they assigned us to read. It was absolutely amazing! As a 16 year old, I can personally say I relate to some of the things Holden has to say. The way he expresses what he feels, and the language he uses, are highly amusing, in my opinion. I thinkmany teenagers will find themselves interested in this book because many of the problems Holden has to go through, are things teenagers have to go through nowadays as well. All in all, this book is simply fantastic, and I recomend anyone who hasn't read it to goread it this instant!!
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Summary: A superior piece of work..
Review: I read this book for the first time at 17. I was exceptionally curious about the book, as I'd heard so much about it for some time. Expecting nothing more than a good story, I began to read. However, I got much more than just another good story, more than an exquisite writing style, more than a book of exemplary yet classic adolescent indignation and mercurialness. As Holden's story unfolded, I began to think, and I began to put some things, insignificant as they seemed, into perspective. If this doesn't seen quite comprehendable now, perhaps you will understand after reading the book, which I very highly recommend to anyone searching for a little more. As I mentioned, I felt the writing style to be exceptional. It is said from the mouth of Holden Caulfield, an adolescent boy who has been expelled from school. Rather than go home, he spends three days wandering the streets of New York City. Holden willingly excludes himself from anything phony, and tells us of his experiences while doing so. I'm sure that just about any teenager can relate to him in one way or another. I know I certainly can.
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Summary: The best book ever!
Review: I read this book for the first time in high school and was convinced that this book was by far the most amazing piece of classical literature I would ever encounter. Salinger is absolutley brilliant and has the reader completley engulfed in the life of Holden. His rebellious ways, his complete disgust for all the phonies of the world, and his showering love and protection for his little sister Pheobe proves to make him a truly unique and untouchably strong character. This book has all the elements of a true masterpiece. A definite must read!
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Summary: inspiration
Review: i read this book for the first time when i was 14 (over a decade ago)....and haven't managed to delete it from my memory even to this day...its left an unimaginable impact on my mind as it depicted the trials and tribulations of a teenager with such genuine accuracy....that as a teenager i was overwhelmed to read that i wasn't the 'only one'. Perhaps the teenage years of one's life are the most lonely that one goes through....and to find someone else who identifies with you at that point in time seems ineffable....even today i enjoy reading this book as i can now at this age understand the finer tones and nuances that were missed at a younger age....i recommend this book highly....
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Summary: One for your inner adolescent...
Review: I read this book for the first time when I was 15 and felt (as do many teenagers) that I was Holden Caulfield. Forget that Holden came from a priveleged, urban background, while I was lower middle class and from a small town. The experience of feeling alienated, wondering if you were even sane, and discovering that the world is populated by fools and "phonies" provided all the identification any 60s teen would need. Rereading it now, in my late 40s, I have a somewhat different, perhaps more mature perspective--I have made my peace with the "phonies", as we all must to survive in this world. In fact, I have even come to see that the phonies can be lost souls in their own right and perhaps deserving of a little compassion. But Holden still speaks to my "inner adolescent" and his righteous anger at the ways of the world invokes something beyond nostalgia in this reader. Holden's experience in post-WWII America reflects the confusion and spiritual hunger we "post-Moderns" are still experiencing. We emerged from the 40s with no easy answers and no absolutes. Holden had no idea, but in his own awkwardly adolescent way, he was walking the Existentialist path.
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Summary: Grow Up Holden!
Review: I read this book for the first time when I was 15 years old. I thought that in Holden I had found my alter ego, my true self. I absolutely identified with Holden.
I'm not 15 any more, in fact, I have three sons who are much closer to 15 than I will ever be again. I read Catcher again this summer, and I have only one thing to say. Please, please, please God, don't let my boys grow up to be as sef-absorbed and immature as Holden
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Summary: my most favorite-est book ever!
Review: i read this book for the first time when i was a freshman in high school. i fell in love with holden caufeild, and could so easily identify with him. i felt like he was with me, like he was inside my head! i have read it many times since then, and each time i discover something new. it is a perfectly spun tale, coated with beautifully vivid anecdotes that will keep you smiling even through natural disasters. to know holden is to love him. what else can i say
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Summary: please read this book, it is refreshingly honest
Review: i read this book for the first time when i was about thirteen, and i must admit, while i fully enjoyed it, i did not see the reason why it was such a critically acclaimed classic. now 16, and having reread it twice in the past few years, i really understand the brilliance that is in the novel. reading some of the other reviews, i came across many that criticized the book for not having a "plot." if you think that then you do not understand the book at all. the catcher in the rye is not about the plot at all, nor is holden caulfeild. it is about a boy coming-of-age in an honest account of his life. nowhere near perfect, holden caulfeild is refreshigly real and honest. but perhaps even more importantly, the most winning quality about this novel is what it says about human nature. although holden exists only in new york city in the early forties, the reader becomes aware through reading this that human nature is no different in that setting than anywhere today. "who wants flowers when you're dead? nobody" -- holden caulfeild
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Summary: My Review
Review: I read this book in a couple of days last summer. I'm going to have to read it again for school this year. I really like the first sentence. I like the beginning, and I like the way the book is written, but I wouldn't say I like this book. I guess I don't see what sets it apart. Holden, the main character, who is sixteen, wasn't as cynical as I thought it would be. I mean, I'm probably more cynical than him. I like the way Salinger didn't find it necessary to use correct grammar or anything and that he wasn't afraid to swear and stuff. I'm not sorry I read it or anything. I thought the characterization was good. One thing I didn't get was why Holden was so concerned with little kids not finding out about stuff, like the way he didn't want them to see the swearwords carved into things. I don't get why everybody always hides stuff from little kids.
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