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Summary: worst book ever
Review: I recently read Catcher in the Rye for my English class. It didn't go anywhere it just kept going on about different things that happened to Holden. The book didn't have just one story, it had a bunch of storys that didn't go together. The Author didn't tell what happened at the end or what even happened to him. Nobody who reads this book can relate what happens to Holden. I wish I wouldn't have even picked this book. The only good part of this book is all of the cussing. An example would be in his dorm room and he is talking about a football game he isnt even at. The book has no plot it is about a boy who fails out of prep school and doesn't want to go home to tell his parents. The writer should have focused on one thing instead of trying to make the story together with other stories . It goes nowhere It just tells a bunch of different stories. He keeps going off and doesn't keep up with what he is talking about. This book should not be sold anywhere because it has no meaning. The story is too long and it has too many different stories it never goes with one thing he always goes off on something else. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone under the age of 40 because its too boring for younger people. I think this book only deserves 1 star because it has a lousy plot.
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Summary: Caught 5 stars.
Review: I recently read the book The Catcher in the Rye for English class. When I first started the book I thought it was going to be another boring classic. But I was wrong. I completely loved the book. Holden Caufield is the main character and narrator of the novel. He is very cynical which I found amusing. He tells this wild story about 3 days of his life before Christmas break. As I was reading the book it seemed like a lot more than 3 days. I think Salinger did an excellent job writing this book. He wrote this book and it wasn't really based on anything. It didn't have some huge plot structure or anything fancy. The book just had extremely well developed thoughts and characters. I simply couldn't just put the book down I read almost the whole thing at once. What made me stop was the fact that it was 3 AM! On some levels I could relate to Holden's despair at being in a world full of weirdo's and wackos. And also highly dislike or hate most of the people around you. But you have to put up with them because they are the only ones around. The Catcher in the Rye is a good vehicle to demonstrate how society was taking a turn for the worse. Like in the one part he keeps talking about how sick it is how he keeps seeing "F@%$ You" written all over the wall. Salinger uses a lot of popular slang consistent with the setting of the story, which made reading tedious at times because I didn't understand half of it. But other than that this is definitely a book to read!
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Summary: JRayTribe
Review: I recently read The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. I did not like this book at all. It should die. Slowly. I can see the significance of it, but it seems that Salinger has a swearing problem. I'm not sure but this book may have more swear words in it that Mark Twain's Huck Finn and n-words. All of the swearing is funny at first, but after a few, um paragraphs, it gets too annoying. I have two words for Mr. Salinger: Paperback version, page 201, second paragraph. It is what was written on the wall.
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Summary: Amazing Book
Review: I recommend this book. It captured my interest till the end. We all, as people, face hardships and sometimes feel like giving up, but we eventually pull through. Without those hardships we wouldn't be the people we are now. Everyone will take something different from this book. For me, I learned that life isn't half as bad as we think it may be. Everyone has his or her own problems to deal with. You're not alone.
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Summary: Holden became like a real person for me.
Review: I red "The Catcher in the rye" in my english class at Tabor Acadamey, Massachusetets. But I am not from the States. I am living normaly in Monaco, their I go to a girl-school. I give this book highest rate and is not with no reasons. From the beginning it doesn't looked specialy attractive with is plain cover and I thought it was one of this boring books that you usally have to read. But I felt from the beginnig that Holden was an interesting person. Even that he almost was "depressed" all the time, was he funny with all his quick lines he said to diffrent persons. Holden become almost like a real person when you think about him and disscus him in class. One of my favourites scenes is actully in the ending of the book. The scen is between Holden and his sister Phoebe. The scen is taking place Central Park Zoo, New York. Phoebe is riding a carusel, in the mean time Holden sitting on a bench watching his sister riding the carusel. he doesn't care tha! t it begins to rain, because he thinks it is so beutiful.
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Summary: The Truth About Teenage Angst And Cynicism
Review: I regret that I am reading this book for the first time at age 25, and not 10 years earlier, because it feels like it was written either to: 1) placate teenage insensibilities and insecurities;
or
2) urge parents to make peace with incomprehensibly rebellious
children. The result of my perusal is that I am unable to identify with either audience and hence, felt utterly disconnected with Holden Caulfield's travails and misery. In fact, I detested the protagonist and found it hard to sympathize with what felt like self-wrought despair. Therein lies the mystery of literature -- I suppose if I ever harbored thoughts similar to Holden's, I would be embracing this much-loved anti-hero. It was not until the final chapter that I found myself feeling sorry for Holden. Come to think of it, he does not even fit the official definition of an anti-hero. An anti-hero tries, but fails. He is defeated by the forces of nature (which includes human nature, in my book). His downfall is sometimes the undoing of an unsuspecting individual. Perhaps the closest Salinger comes to defining the anti-hero in his piece de resistance are the early references to Thomas Hardy's The Return Of The Native. Sadly, Holden does not even come close to the tragic heroes that are Clym Yeobright and Eustacia Vye. But in a strange and probably effective way, that disconnect sums up the person of Holden Caulfield. He is an empty shell of a boy, as compared to his peers, and the irony of it all is -- for all that Salinger tries to convince us being "true" is about, you realize that truth is manifest as a human being that amounts to nothing, one who has been defeated by his own principles and beliefs. Prejudices against Holden Caulfield aside, there is no denying that the writing is sharp, engaging, and brilliant... it does unlock the part of me that identified with Holden at some point in my life. I don't like this book because of its irrelevance to me, now, but I applaud Mr. Salinger for putting into words what every 16-year-old has always found it hard to say aloud, especially to adults. For capturing so succinctly the experience of growing pains and the disease of socialization and acclimatization, that the anti-hero has become a hero.
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Summary: One of the best books ever written.
Review: I remember reading this book as a child and laughing as I read it. The boy sounded exactly like my own brother so of course I could appreciate it even more.
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Summary: Good book, but overrated
Review: I remember reading this book in about three days when I was in high school. I think the reason most people like this book is that they can imagine themselves writing it. The plot is non-existent, the dialogue is very straight-forward and there is lots of subtext that can be deciphered in a million ways.
We can certainly all see ourselves as Holden Caufield. He does a lot of the things we wish we could do. He's like the narrator in "Fight Club". Sounds like a great idea until you have to live there. You can't imagine Holden as a grown-up, and you certainly can't see yourself taking this book seriously if you're over the age of 30, unless your a Lit professor.
The best thing about this book is Will Smith's speech about it in "Six Degrees of Seperation".
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Summary: Read it again - as an adult!!
Review: I remember reading this book when I was in high school, but many years have passed since then. My own kids recently were assigned this book for their own literature class, and I decided to pick it up and re-read it. Wow!! This book is awesome. I got a lot more out of it now, as an adult, and it put me in better touch with some issues that kids face when they reach that point in their lives where they are expected to make a life transition. I would NEVER forbid my kids from reading this book. It is very insightful and touching, and was even more powerful for me today than when I read it 30 years ago.
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Summary: Because we wanted to be just like him (some time ago)
Review: I remember when I was that age. I hated everything that didnot fit into my world. I hate the world too as a matter of fact. And the came Cauldfield. We wanted to be like him, but we did not have the guts ro run away, get expelled, and feel free. If we go back to 1951, think on the impact of this book on that generation. Rebellious, insatisifed kids (and more) felt compeled to be like Holden, and the attraction was inmediate. I don't loose sight of the political and cultural epoch of a bok; it will give us a wider persepctive of who and why. Salinger, who then intelligently (and what a great marketing act that was) vanished, knew what he was writing, and imagined that he could not get any better than the Catcher. He did not have any more to say, and he decided to shut up. Good move!
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