The Catcher in the Rye

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Summary: great plot, awesome subject, very creative, shocking ending
Review: I read the book "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger. It takes place in the 1950's. This story is about a 16 year old boy named Holden Caulfield, a boy in a mental hospital undergoing treatment. He tells the story from here about what happened in his life from the end of the fall school term to Christmas.

Holden is a kid who is at his fourth school, Pencey, because he failed out of the other three, he just found out he is failing four of his five classes. After getting aggravated with some of his teachers and an argument with his roommates, he decides to head back to Manhattan early. When he gets there, he stays at a hotel and goes all over the city to have fun. He hangs out with some old friends and girlfriends. One girl, he gets mad at for not running away with him. He gets drunk with a bunch of kids and gets Luce upset because Holden was making fun of him.

After getting everyone mad at him he heads to his sisters house where he finds out some shocking news about what he wanted to do with his life. He wanted to catch little children from falling off a cliff. He got this idea from a poem by Robert Burn's. He thinks it says "if a body catch a body, coming through the rye." But his sister reveals some news that changes everything.

I thought this book was great. I could relate to Holden because he was a teenager. He did drugs and was pissed at everyone. He wasn't happy with school or how life was going. Many teens can relate to some of this, especially going through changes from an adolescent to an adult. Holden learns a very important lesson involving this in the end of the story.

Overall, this book was great and I would encourage anyone to read it, especially teens.

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Summary: nopointtothisbook
Review: This was the worst book that I have ever read in my life. I kept waiting for something big to happen throughout the whole story, and nothing did. All the book is about is a kid that walks around New York and complains about everything that happens to him. He's very depressing. I would rather read the dictionary than read that book again.

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Summary: one of the best books ever
Review: i wish more authors wrote books like this. This is one of my all time favorite books. Any guy in his early teens to early twenties can't help but relate to some of Holden's problims. Holden is a traggic hero and I love the way he tells things like they are. This is an absolutely must read. I never read books twice but I'd read this book again and again, etc...

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Summary: Must Read
Review: I think this is a must read for all kids in junior high. I read it in graduate school which made me think as I read the book that it would have benefited me more in junior high or high school. I got out of the book that you should not drop out of school and you should apply yourself. It was pointed out to me that this book is also about a kid with mental background issues that need to go to counseling. Very good book if read at the righ time in your life but still a valuable read later on in life.

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Summary: The Catcher in the Rye By J.D. Salinger
Review: "If you want to know the truth, I don't know what I think about it. I'm sorry I told so many people about it. About all I know is, I sort of miss everybody I told about. Even old Stradlater and Ackley, for instance. I think I even miss that Maurice. It's funny. Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody." -J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, page 213- 214

The Catcher in the Rye is a great book that can really hold your attention if you get into it. Holden Caulfield has trouble staying in school. He went to many schools before going to Pencey. He has an annoying, self-centered roommate who could care less about him. Holden was kicked out of Pencey for bad grades and not trying. He only passed English. He decided to leave Pencey earlier than scheduled and live in New York for awhile. There, many funny things happen to him. You have to read the book to find out the different kinds of people he meets there.

I would definitely recommend The Catcher in the Rye to anyone who likes to read. I would give this book 5 out of 5 stars because it was so fun to read and kept me wanting to read more. It really lets you get to know Holden and his very different perspective of the world.

Holden Caulfield is definitely the protagonist of The Catcher in the Rye. You really get to know him as a person throughout the book. Holden is a really unique person. He thinks almost everyone in the world is a phony, except for, maybe, his younger sister Phoebe and his dead brother, Allie. As I said before, Holden is not a very good student. He likes to read and writing is okay, but he really doesn't like school. Holden is kind of stubborn, he doesn't want to go back home. Holden often times speaks the truth. When he has something on his mind he usually says it. Holden Caulfield is a fun guy to get to know through this novel.

One of the best parts of this book was when Holden snuck into his house to talk to Phoebe. They start to talk about the play Phoebe is acting in as Benedict Arnold. After talking, they decide to listen to the radio. Then, they start dancing, it turns out Phoebe is a great dancer. They love each other so much, it is a great scene to picture. Another scene I liked was when Holden was on the train going to New York. On the train he met a nice woman who turned out to be a mother of a Pencey student. He started telling her information about Pencey that was incorrect. He had the best time talking to her. It was also very fun to picture as I read.

The Catcher in the Rye is an awesome novel to read. I absolutely loved it. If I had the time, I would have read it in one sitting. One thing I wished would happen was that Holden would call Jane. He kept saying he would but never actually talked to her. I was waiting to find out what they would talk about. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to read books written in first person because you really get to know Holden Caulfield as a real person. You definitely have to read this book sometime in your lifetime!

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Summary: catcherintherye
Review: Being a jerk teenager who constant complains about everything and everyone to myself, i thought i should read this. Of course, like everyone who's read this book, i could relate to alot of what holden caulfield did or thought. Especially because both holden and many other misanthropic youths complain about the most minute, stupid things, stuff that really shouldn't matter.
Another thing that was addressed that hit me like a load of bricks, was hypocrisy, such as holden's labeling of all the "fakes". Such as when he's talking to his teacher, and he's (in his mind) yelling at him and such, but what he actually says is just as far from what's on his mind, as the what the teacher says, and i do this ALOT. And of course, reading that, didn't inspire me to say whats on my mind, didn't change me at all, so i guess it did nothing but raise my hypocrisy up another level. As much as holden thinks he does, he really doesn't want to hurt anyone, or else he would say all his critical thoughts.
I also found myself criticizing Holden, himself, for stuff like: how can he be soo disgusted with humans, and still dance with those women, who are by my standards some of the wrost examples of humanity (not all women, but the ones at the bar), How could he buy them drinks, and so on. And that single-handedly proved the point of the book, even the ones who complain so much about how bad humans are, arent perfect themselves, maybe equally bad. I don't mean holden by that, but it applies to him too.
If you've ever wanted to slap every human that ever walked by you with a goofy smile on their face, read this, and you will either miss a few major points, and continue to want to slap people (like me). And/Or, you'll recognize those points, and be too much of a hypocrite to change yourself(like me). And (not or) you'll enjoy the book, no matter what you think its point is. There isn't any hard-to-get college english course stuff in here, its a GREAT human story (keyword: human). that should affect everyone in some way.
At the bare minimum, you'll be occupied with a good story for a couple days.

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Summary: A Witty Novel
Review: The Catcher in the Rye is mature in its immaturity. It took me a while to finally come to this conclusion. When read for the first time, Holden appears to be an immature teen who is too busy complaining about everything he can. I recently watched the movie Loser with Jason Biggs, and took note of the influence this book had on this movie. For example, the red hunting cap made an appearance.

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Summary: This book has good and bad points
Review: This book is very interesting. It shows the attitude of a teenager as well as the way one thinks. However, I found it hard to read because it skipped from one idea to another often. Overall, I saw this book as a good read for anyone who is trying to look in to the way a teenager thinks.

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Summary: Classic
Review: I enjoyed this book. It remains a classic about the alienation
felt by teens.

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Summary: One of the best books i've read to date
Review: The Catcher in the Rye is worthy of all the praise it's gotten throughout the many years it's been around. It proves to be a timeless classic to me. Many times when I try and sit down to read a book I can read it for a while but eventually slip away from it, and never finish what I started. I found this to be one of those books that kept me interested the whole time though. The one thing I would compare this book to would have to be the classic sitcom Seinfeld. The reason for this is simply because they are both very well written and regard things we all relate to in some way, but in the end when all is said and done don't have a major plot to it that really jumps out at you. Of course I do not mean this in the bad way at all. I really enjoyed this intricate and groundbreaking way the whole book is brought together. The book is narrated the whole way through by the main character, Holden Caulfield, starting as he has just recently been expelled from his last school, Pencey Prep. Pencey Prep is different from most other schools. To attend the school you must stay in dorms they have like you would for college. It is also broken into semesters with a christmas break splitting up the 2 semesters. The Catcher in the Rye takes you on Holden's journey as he decides to leave Saturday night before everyone else who will be going home for Christmas break on that next Wednesday. It follows him as he travels around New York. He isn't going home yet because he is waiting for his parents to get the letter of his expulsion and giving them time to cool off. Although it is many people's belief that Holden is, as he would call himself, "a madman", as I read the book I couldn't help but relate myself to him in some ways. He really is the epitome of a teenage guy in many ways, just in a way over-dramatized. It's my belief he really has a good heart. It's just sad he doesn't see anyone's actions as "real". He interacts with everyone the same as most teenagers really, he just won't see past the negative in people. It's funny how he creates excuses for things just like any teen would too. For example he's "never in the right mood" to call Jane, a neighbor of his when he's at home, who you can tell he has a big crush on. This is really in my perspective just him doing what all of us seem to do by creating an excuse he views as a good reason not to do something that he really wants to do deep inside. I think he does this because of fear of rejection in some ways and also nervousness. The one thing he never will put down is his family. I really like the fact that no matter what other flaws you may see in him u will not see a moral decay when you look at the way he treats his family. He loves and respects all his family members and is very genuine in his feelings for them. The book basically concentrates on Holden, the main character, struggling with great depression that's overcome him. He can't get away from it. He tries to overcome it by talking with others all the time but keeps turning the people he talks with away for some flawed reason. He's trying to fit in this society but at the same time pushing himself away. We all can relate to this, especially as teens, when you want to see the reasons behind things we all are obligated to do, such as getting our education in school, but sometimes find ourselves becoming fed up with the way our system is. I hold this up as one of the best books I have read to date, and highly recommend you read this book no matter who you are.