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Summary: what I think about..
Review: I read this book in the reading class of summer school. I'd like to mention that I'm a ESL student and my gramer isn't that good. First of all, although I had some part which I couldn't understand, I simply liked this book. I think I've been having similar feeling like Holden has. For instanse, I really like very young kids or old people. I couldn't get along with the kids around my age. I always had the feeling people don't need me, and seeking people who simply like me and don't hurt me. As I reading the book, "the catcher in the rye", I remembered what happened to me last winter at my school. Just hate people and don't know what is going on around. Even though liked the people, or wanted to like people, but I couldn't do that. I think that "winter" makes people depress a lot, and I believe that Holden has the same feeling, or much bigger than mine. Holden, I think, wants to escape from everythin which bothers him and make him rereaved, but both tring to deal with the plobrems and escape form the plobrems aren't easy. That's why everything is hard to him and makes Holden so sad. I think that most people around my age have this strange feeling;have to be grown up, but afraide to being gruwn up and want to be child forever. Again, I think that I'm not compretery understanding this book, and I think when I get older I would understnd this book more and different way. That's why I didn't give parfect score for this book. When I could undersatnd what the book was telling to people, then, I would give the parfect score for this book. Lastly, I really enjoyed reading this book.
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Summary: This book killed me, It really did!
Review: I read this book last year when I was 16 years old and have since read it several times. Whenever I am bored I pick it up, open to any page and just read. The people who cant understand this book or dislike it are the type of people Holden is criticizing in the story. There is so much energy and emotion and life in this story that it is just incredible. When I first finished reading it I just sat there squeezing the book, it created such intense feelings inside of me. Every page Holden said something that I relate to 100%. He is by far the best character ever created in a story. I feel like Salinger was personally writing about me. Holden is struggling with growing up into a world filled with phonies. Every page Salinger says something that makes me stop and think. For instance, "I dont care if its a sad bood-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse" or "King on the back row...".
This book changed my life. If I could only have one material possesion for the rest of my life it would be The Catcher in the Rye. You have to read this book, it is so amazing.
-----Sean Manning
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Summary: A great book!
Review: I read this book not knowing anything at all about it, only that it had an infamous reputation. As I was reading it I related to Holden, which worried me as I knew that this book has been an 'inspiration' for serial killers! Some of his insights were spot on the mark, and I thought I was was some sort of weirdo for appreciating them! I carried on reading with a sense of impending doom as I thought something was going to hurt Holden, or Holden was going to hurt somebody, which didnt happen. Just shows you what a bit of commotion can do, sometimes its not as bad as first thought once you judge it for yourself. A wonderful book full of emotion, which I am glad I have read.
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Summary: most bad reviews about this book sound like they're from H C
Review: I read this book not out of interest from others but from its scandalousness. People who killed celebrities (or attempted to) were found with it in their possessions. It's also a "book-burner's and book-banner's favorite". I read it to look for anything that resembled "bad messages". I found nothing but the mindless bitter ramblings of a depressed and confused brat. It had no basic plot, no real storyline, nothing of the sort. To say the least, by the time I was finished I was quite angry at the book's fame (or should I say notoriety?). My first idea, apparently, was it was an utter piece of trash. BUT, when I spoke to others about it, I noticed the way I spoke of it sounded just like what I had read. That's when I found the secret: The Bitterness is the REAL MAIN CHARACTER, just like the Chaos of the movie "Natural Born Killers" was its main character and the Nadsat Dialect of "Clockwork Orange" was as important a character as "Your Humble Narrator, Alex" was. It was a primary example of the line about when we don't like other people or other things because we see something we don't like about ourselves in them. That's how I understand it anyway. So, next time you see or hear someone who seemingly can't stop whining and complaining for two seconds, hand 'em a copy of this book and tell them to go FIND themself.
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Summary: One of the best books I've ever read
Review: I read this book on reccomendation from my English teacher uncle. I'd heard a lot about it and I said "ah, why not?" I couldn't put it down. When describing the book, I could hear how, to someone who hasn't read it, Holden Caulfield sounds like a slacker who cannot even think straight, has no morals and no self-dicipline. But when you read it, you see that while he's low on common sense, he's got a lot of really "deep" thoughts. He sheds a new light on various things, such as where do ducks go in the winter, phonies @ expensive schools and "flits." He's extremely opiniated and sometimes you find yourself swinging to his way of thinking. I reccomend this to everyone who could read it.
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Summary: This book is clearly very overrated
Review: I read this book only cause everyone was talking about it and I wanted to know for myself, what it was about. First reading it, I thought how stupid and lame the boy was... I kept on reading cause I felt maybe there's more to it, maybe it'd get better. I was very wrong. This book is very predictable and has no plot. The character was annoying and boring. I wish there was a choice in 0 stars cause it's what this book deserves. I gave my copy away to my fiancee hoping she'll agree with the crap that is this book. NOTE: Monica don't be taken in with the simple closed minded readers!!
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Summary: My Review on Catcher............
Review: I read this book some months ago but I really did not form any strong opinion of it. My first thought was that I thought the character Caulfield unrealistic. I could never imagine a 13 year old boy with these thoughts and fears. Perhaps that is beacause I was raised in a very protected environment, partly in California and Oslo,Norway(Europe). Now that I am 20 and it has been 6 years sisce I moved back from Calif. I realize that American kids have it totaly diferent than the protected environment of my little Scandinavian country.
My point is that what Caulfield goes through is not only common for teenagers but also people in there 20's, all over the world. Everyone meets a wall one or two times.
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Summary: Great read!
Review: I read this book some years ago in HS. I feel that this book gets alot more hype then it deserves, But the main Charecter is one who is easily related to by a good many of people. Its difinatly an american classic and is well worth the read for pleasure as well as edjucational porposes.
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Summary: i love it and hate it at the same time!
Review: i read this book the other day....straight through without stopping. Although i found it a great book and some of the discriptions amazing and the feelings so easy to relate to and true to life, especially well ahead of it's time, and extremely clever the way it u know so much about stuff in the past despite it's short present tense, about 3/4 of the way through to book i began to get bored. It was getting kinda repetative....u just wanted him to go away, or go home, ring jane or do SOMETHING! but he doesn't and much to my suprise (due to the fact i had loads of blank pages at the back of my book) it ends! The only tiny glimmer of an ending being him finding a moments happiness.
I s'pose that's the clever part of the book...to catch the reader by suprise...but it wasn't half annoying....i had a good mind at first to write my own ending!
oh, i don't know what i think...well i'd recommend this book to anyone who likes to think, it's a very deep book but to anyone who can't stand things being unfinished don't even begin to read it!
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Summary: Very accurate potrayal of teenager
Review: I read this book twice, once in sixth grade, the other when I was a sophomore. At first I thought it was good solely because there was a prostitute in it, but now I see how it tells the tale of a cynical teenager. I can really relate to Holden Caulfield, me being a cyincal teenager myself. But this is book is for people who are made angry by everyone that isn't cynical.
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