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Summary: this stays in your mind for a long time
Review: i reviewed this right after i finished it and gave it four stars. but after a while i realized i was still thinking about this book. and usually after i read a book i stop thinking about it after a day or two. but this one stayed in my mind for weeks. so i still agree with most things i said in the first review i'm just changing it to 5 stars, because of its staying power. if you want to read my original review keep reading.well i read this because i am a 16 year old male. so i was supposed to really identify with holden, and i did at some points in the book, but at others he was a bit too cynical for me and i can be pretty cynical. my favorite was near the end when he was with phoebe, his little sister. that got to me the most. sometimes though his problems became a little bit too much. I also think the word "corny" was overused. all in all though it was a good book. i am definitely going to check out salinger's other work.
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Summary: Dare to admit!! then you will love this masterpiece!
Review: I rushed to read "The Catcher In The Rye" after I watched "Conspiracy Theory" by Mel Gibson. He was so obsessed with this book and so am I. It is indeed an interesting and a well must read book. If we dare to admit our phony attitude in our life, then you will love this book!
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Summary: Varying Opinions Shouldn't Be Surprising
Review: I see how some of my fellow teenagers found The Catcher in the Rye to be a boring or frustrating or pointless book. After I got over my initial shock, I realized that while this book was extremely special to me, it could just as easily be seen as trash by someone else. It is a highly subjective piece of literature, unlike, say, The Odyssey, which can be dissected as easily and unpleasantly as a frog. For certain types of people (myself included), books like this and Catch-22 provide characters to identify with. Other people with valid opinions might scoff at Holden and Yossarian and look to Beowulf-type heroes for proper role models. Quite simply, the anti-hero isn't everybody's cup of tea. I don't recommend this book to everyone--just to those that have ever felt alone and misunderstood because of different beliefs or paradigms.
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Summary: Way too Late
Review: I should have read this book when I was in junior high, 9th grade at most. Perhaps the archetype for the modern me-against-the-world genre, the book is written and read like its character - on its own terms. One thing I enjoyed reading Catcher(which is a breeze, if you don't know) is Salinger's characterization. Holden Caufield is a thorougly original literary creation, and this is precisely why he resembles some of us so much. Making a stand against growing up, the adult world, Caufield's account of life is entirely internalized. His is a world so many of us encounter in the tender-rough years of the midteens - desolate; the people around us - alien; anything that makes us tick - wrong and immoral. Holden Caufield has become synonymous with rebellion, so much so that it was inevitable for him to become a symbol. Breathing life and a fierce air of independence into his hero, Salinger made him so understandable because of his own inability to understand anything. Caufield's inner life, the momentousness of noneventfulness that is the all-too familiar teenageemotional rollercoaster is given full expression. Neither a novel of adventures nor really a novel of "ideas," you might call this the novel of protest - not of social protest, but of man against the world. Caufield is the expression of our latent dissatisfaction and bitterness with the way life shoves us along and time steals itself. He is the audacity to walk out on a dishonest lecture class, to escape the friends who all seem so ignorant during a soul crisis, to ditch the drudgery of duty and responsibiliies on a whim. Caufield is Peter Pan with a drinking habit and leery eyes. He has vigor and the failure of rebellion. Caufield is a palpable reality of the man who tries to step outside the sphere of the life he's thrown into. He finds the door, but finally sees it's lonely on the other side. Much like the choices we make when we open the door, Caufield steps back.
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Summary: A horrible book, about a horrible person
Review: I simply do not understand how anyone can say this book is anything more than a worthless story about a worthless human being. The central character is a spoiled brat, who can not be happy with anything his privelaged position has given him, and instead seeks to spread his misery to all the people that he comes into contact with. Whether it be a hooker, or a school chum, or his own family. If it wasn't for the main characters constant whining, there would be no plot at all. This has to be, without a doubt the worse book I have ever read. The authors only real accomplishment is that he seems to be able to write complete sentences.
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Summary: the best book i ever read ! ! !
Review: i simply looooved that book.currently i am reading it for the 3rd time and defenitly not the last time.i found alot on common with holden,his dipression and bitterness towards people around him,little things,him over-analyzing everything,the way that everything made him sick.im not like that anymore though i understand the chracter so much.i simply adore salinger for building such a complex,real,intresting chracter such as holden.the plot is like never ending which i loved cause i just didnt want it to end :) everytime you read it you find out more things and details you missed before,and understand that you can read it a dozen of times and never get sick of it..just like a good movie.salinger was/is brilliant..too bad he thought we're not good enough for his writings so i understand.
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Summary: I can relate
Review: I sincerely believe that every teenager should read this book. The Catcher in the Rye is definitely the best book I've ever read. I am sixteen (like the main character) and I mean to read it again after all my friends read it. This review isn't revealing anything about the story. I don't like it when reviews give stuff away about the plot so I'm not going to. Just read it. It really doesn't matter what age you are- you won't be able to put it down.
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Summary: Best book ever writen or at least the best one I've read!!!
Review: I started reading catcher in the rye because my dad thought I should. I thought it wold be some stupid old book like all the other books people told me to read. It took me a little wile to get through the first sevan or eight chapters but after that I could not put that book down. It was probably the best book I've ever read. I think most teenagers who "don't like to read" (that's what they all say) would love this book because it relates to them getting kicked out of school and facing your parents are things kids worry about. It's very interesting but at the same time the plot is very easy to fallow. Everyone needs to read THE CATCHER IN THE RYE because it's worth the cupple of hours, at most, it will take to read it and It's a great Amarican book I give it five stars only because I cant give it a million(or more).
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Summary: Entertaining Book for those who Hate to Read
Review: I started reading this book prepaired to be bored out of my scull. To my surprise, it was very entertaining and hooking.
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Summary: It Makes you think
Review: I started to hate Holden because he frustrated me so much. His constantly negative remarks about everyone, his lazyness and uncaring attitude,and his superiority all bothered me. As I read, I began to understand his character more and I liked him. As soon as it is accepted that there is a little Holden in all of us, the book is more enjoyable. It taught me many lessons about motivation, superficiality and understanding. Read it, it's very well written.
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