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Summary: This review is not for people from New York.
Review: The book The Catcher In The Rye was a very bad book. It made no sense whatsoever. I found the book humorous in a few places. For example, it was amusing when Ackley came in and started looking through Holden's stuff. I also found it boring to read about Holden getting drunk and walking through the park. That whole part makes now sense. He talks about getting pneumonia, and if he would die who would come to his funeral. I couldn't rate this book any lower than one star; otherwise it would have negative five stars. I really didn't mind the language that Holden and all of the other characters used because I hear that kind of language every day. And what does Catcher In The Rye mean anyway? What does it have to do with anything? I mean J.D. Salinger could at least made a title that went along with the book. And another thing, what is with the ending? It's a whole chapter about nothing. Just skip the last chapter and end the book sooner! I would not have read the book if I had known what I was in for.
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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: The catcher in the rye
Review: I didn't like The Catcher in the Rye all that much because it confused me at the beginning. Holden Cauefuild, the main character talks about getting kicked out of his high school and staying in a hotel for three days because he can't go home because his parents will be mad. While staying in a hotel in New York, Holden talks about his life experiences with love, girls, drinking, and his brother dying. He talks about how he misses his brother very much. Also he mentions another brother in Hollywood. He often goes back and forth about different situations in his life. He really doesn't stick to one thing. Holden acts as if he as all these problems and no one to talk to. He goes to bars in New York to clear his mind but that doesn't work. He just creates bigger problems for himself. Holden also goes out with one of his friends to try to get his mind off things but instead he gets ill. I understand how he feels, but I didn't like how he cusses. Yeah, that's how we all talk, but the language got annoying after awhile. I would read this book again only if I had to. But if you heard good things about it that interested you, then read it and find out if you like it better than I did.
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Summary: Contemporary Classic in a small town
Review: This book is an excellent example of real life. It puts all the phonies in their places. Speaking as a high school student and a well- read young adult, I would recomment this to ANYONE over the age of 13. Reading it has removed the blinder of my fellow students . Even though some have written bad reviews, it has given them a new insight of the tortured souls of their peers. I liked the fact that it was alluded to in the movie Conspiracy Theory. When I had to read this book as an assignment I thought it would be a treat for others. Instead, I think it horrified or confused them. It was like nothing they had ever read and most of their opinions on this book were negative because they didnt understand the meaning of the book. I know that it can be very easy to hate this book because Holden Caulfied rambes, lies, and does nothing but try and get drunk throughout this book. But what are the majority of high school students doing? I just wish one of my fellow students would have just gotten some glimpse of what Holden was really talking about when he used the metaphors such as the ducks or being the catcher in the rye. The duck represents his personality frozen to everyone else and one caring about what really happened to him. To be the catcher, Holden is trying to catch the other children before they fall into the abyss of adulthood. A no bull acount of the life of a misfit teen, this book inspires me to think and question my own phony actions and try to better myself. I believe this book will always be one of my favorites and Holden always my favorite characters.
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Summary: Contemporary Classic in a small town
Review: This book is an excellent example of real life. It puts all the phonies in their places. Speaking as a high school student and a well- read young adult. I would recomment this to ANYONE over the age of 13. Reading it has removed the blinder of my fellow students , even though some have written bad reviews it has given them a new insight of the tortured souls of their fellow peers. I ejoyed about this book is the presence of it in the movie Conspiracy Theory. When I had to read this book as an assignment I thought it would be a treat for others. Instead, I think it horrified or confused them. It was like nothing they had ever read and most of their opinions on this book were negative because they didnt understand the meaning of the book . I know that it can be very easy to hate this book because Holden Caulfied rambes, lies, and does nothing but try and get drunk throughout this book. But what are the majority of high school students doing? I just wish one of my fellow students would have just gotten some glimpse of what Holden was really talking about when he used the metaphors such as the ducks or being the catcher in the rye. The duck represent his personality frozen to everyone else and one caring about what really happened to him. To be the catcher Holden is trying to catch the other children before they fall into the abyss of adulthood. A no bull acount of athe life of amisfit teen, this book inspires me to think and question my own phony actions and try to better myself. I believe this book will always be one of my favorites and Holden always my favorite characters.
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Summary: adolescent classic
Review: I read this novel when I was slightly younger than Holden and found that I had a lot in common with the main character. We both lived in NYC, went to prep-school and had dysfunctional families. It is because I identified so closely to the main character that I would not want to revisit this text at my age. I know that I am far more cynical than Holden ever was, and don't hold the author (Salinger) in the highest esteem. I believe Salinger has been afraid to come out of his self-imposed exile because he knows he will never find another voice as authentic as Holden's. I had a friend in San Francisco who absolutely insisted that Salinger and Pynchon were the same person. I guess it makes a certain amount of sense in an Oliver Stone kind of way. I would urge a young reader to read this book as it truly is one of the best accounts of adolescent angst and mistrust of the older generation that has been produced in literature. And if there were such thing as a perrenial theme, wouldn't that be it? If I were still teaching English, however, I might get a bit fatigued in rehashing this work; for in hindisght, I find Salinger's dystopian viewpoint and Caulfield's negativity about as puerile as a latter day Ellis novel.
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Summary: Must-Read - for not just teens
Review: This book explains many teenager actions to other people who do not understand. It also shows insite of the auhtor, that he did not tell us, but showed us these facts. This is a must-read for everyone
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Summary: A Great, Misunderstood Novel
Review: While reading other reviews on this site, I find myself saddened by two problems people have with this book: 1) nothing exciting ever happens 2) Holden Caulfield is merely a cynical whiner In response to those who hold the first as a fault of the Catcher in the Rye, perhaps you should learn a greater appreciation for literature and the human soul. In this age of shallow films and pulp Stephen Kingesque fiction, people seem more concerned with cheap, "action-packed" thrills, and (not to sound like Holden or anything) it is depressing to see that people are unable to be moved by a book unless it involves a homicidal clown or a rebellious Soviet submarine. In response to those who feel that Holden is just a mindless cynic, I feel as if you have failed to see what lied beneath his very blunt (though often true) observations of the numerous rituals that are plentiful in American society. After finishing the book, Holden did not seem to be a cynic, but rather a figure of both youthful desperation and enlightened sympathy. He was by no means just an ass for he saw beauty in such innocent things as his little sister's joy while riding a carousel and the strange excitement felt by a humble drummer as he prepares to play a few, almost meaningless notes, and reflecting upon such things, one is lead to the belief that Holden, deep within his heart, wishes not to merely criticize but to help others by showing them the pointless suffering caused by their own arrogance (a self-glorifying form of cynicism) and self-centered attitudes. Thus, it can be concluded that it is not Holden who is insane, but the world itself. Holden sees through their insanity, and criticizes the disease, not the diseased.
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Summary: Vintage Classic! AMAZIN'''' v I B e S
Review: I borrowed this book from the moms, apparently its a classic tale. And I'm telling you, the most accurate description of adolesence and the "crap" that goes along with it. A pure character study, it revolutionized literature. Hail Holden!
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Summary: A Must Read
Review: Buy this book! This is the best of the banned books that I have read.
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