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Summary: catcher in the rye
Review: a fascinating view of the desires and unconcious that goes along with the traumatizing experiences in life
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Summary: One of my favorites
Review: A friend who is an english teacher loaned this book to me, because I wanted something to read. Once I started reading this book,I couldn't stop. It's really interesting, I could PICTURE everything that happen in the book clearly. It felt like I was "there" watching everything happen.
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Summary: I like it.
Review: A good book for young boys. You can read it with your own ways, and got the same feeling.
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Summary: Days in the life of a cynical teenager
Review: A great book about a few days in the life of a cynical teenager. Instead of accepting everything around him and "going with the flow," as so many people do these days, Holden Caulfield chooses to judge everyone and label everything he dislikes as phony. This book made me think a great deal about how I look at other people--people I disagree with and prefer to avoid, and makes me wonder if I am like Holden in some ways. Be warned, though, this book uses a mass of profanity.
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Summary: Good but Mystifying
Review: A great book one of the best I have ever read, one of the best ever written. It made me laugh and feel sorry for this troubled, truthful character who will never leave my memory. The banning of this and any other books is absurd. The author should be able to express his feelings in any way that he feels it no matter if he wants to use bad language or sex or whatever. It's his right. I am writing a book now and am taking no crap from anybody on how to write it because it's my own creation. And it shouldn't be banned from schools because kids should be able to read any book that they want even if they don't really understand. I was eleven or twelve when I first read it and found it funny and sad then. I still do. But someone please help me--what does it all really mean? Is there some hidden meaning behind everything? What exactly is Salinger trying to say here? If anyone has a guess e mail me please.
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Summary: Excellent Goddam Book
Review: A lot has been said about this wonderful book and what I am going to say will probably be much of the same. I loved this book. I bought it for my dad for xmas and I ended up reading it myself. It's on the reading list for my english class so i figured i'd read it ahead of time. I read the book in two days, i couldn't put it down. I found myself really identifing with holden. I have gone through a lot of similar problems that holden went through in the book and I came out of it actually feeling smarter and wiser about life, the first time a book has ever done this to me. The relationship between holden and pheobe was my favorite aspect of the book, especially the chapter when holden is in pheobe's room. The book is pretty funny too, like when he gets all nervous when the prostitute comes to visit him. I very much reccommend this book to everyone, especially teenagers. I'm on my way to re-reading it now, it's that damn good. Easily my favorite book.
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Summary: I saw, I read, I loved
Review: A lot of people I have talked to have either loved the book or hated it. I just happened to love it. What I found extremley important was the relationship Holden had with his sister. I loved the way Salinger was able to describe that. It's a fast read and it may like there is no real plot, but that's what makes the book so special. Here is a boy that has just made a drastic chage in his life, and it feels mundane.
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Summary: Classic Novel
Review: A must read for any fan of literature. Salinger puts us in Holden's world and never lets us go. Excellent book!
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Summary: If the script [stinks].....
Review: A play can have brilliant actors, brilliant sets and a brilliant director, but if the script is no good the play isn't worth a [darn].It's much the same with Catcher In The Rye. One can posit all this book's themes as brilliant: The story of a boy beaten down by society, draining away in its downward spiral. The purity/innocnece/cutting genius of youth. Emptiness, running on a hampster wheel with nowhere to go. Wandering, lost in society's black hole. The death of being bourgeois. Society's turning of a boy with potential into a hopeless boy, searching for meaning in a world with none. The hypocrisy of labeling everyone a fake while being a massive fake oneself. These are all great themes, but the bottom line is this: they're worth nothing if not presented properly, and Catcher is just not a good book. It packages all the above themes poorly; one feels as if one is running on that same hampster wheel as Holden with each sucessive page turn. Some might say that's part of the book's genius -it makes one feel exactly as its main character feels- but feeling that a book is pointless as one reads it just doens't inspire one to continue. Ultimately, this book does not deliver.
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Summary: OUTSTANDING. A real fun read.
Review: A popular review of the book states "Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent."". Based on a lot of the reviews I have read on Amazon.com, this seems to hold true! So many "students" gave it a poor rating. One reason may be because they are forced to read and spend days upon days analyzing it as a part of class. Jus read it for fun! I read it for the first time at age 32. I went to boarding school and could relate to a lot of the book and actually liked the character. But why analyze it? The only interpretation I would care to listen to is Mr. Salinger himself and fat chance of that happening.
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