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Summary: descriptive as hell....
Review: "Catcher in the rye" is one of my favorite books. One of the reasons is because it is "descriptive as hell" (If you read it you would understand the meaning of my title..) If you are one of those psychos like me..Holden makes you feel like your not alone..And that there are other people in the world just as "unique" as you...
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Summary: Great Even if You're Not Young
Review: I first read Catcher years ago and loved it, as anyone in their right mind would! Since then I've been looking for a book that reminded me of it. Recently Brauner's Love Songs of the Tone-Deaf comes close, in a different way, but nothing really compares with the original and still the greatest. Holden Caulfield will be enduring as a character 1,000 years from now!
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Summary: Yep, that's real alright.
Review: This is the most accurate, precise depiction of adolescence. Perhaps if this book has something wrong with it, it's that it's too real. Not much amazing stuff seems to happen in real life, and the same goes for what happens in this book. After a while, Holden's cynical, often hilarious observations get a bit old.
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Summary: a real catcher
Review: Personnally, I really liked it. It's all about this teenage boy dealing with teenage problems like: what will my future be like and also pressures from his parents. the author wrote just like a teenage boy would talk. This book is extremely alive and refreshing but at the same time, a book that encounters the problems of adolescents.
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Summary: A classic (and I love it), but why?
Review: I hated J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" when I had to read it in high school. I thought main character Holden Caulfield could have been killed off in the first chapter, and it would have made for a better story.The book takes place over a weekend in the life of Holden, a perennial dropout in virtually anything he does. He gets kicked out of the latest in a string of colleges in the beginning, so he heads home, for New York City. Once in the Big Apple, Holden looks up old girlfriends, visits a prostitute (and winds up haggling over the price), is reunited with his beloved sister Phoebe and does a host of other stuff one typically does over a weekend or when one has been thrown out of college and doesn't want one's parents to know. The entire story is told from Holden's point of view, and in a stream of consciousness that bounces from one subject to another at random. The character ruminates on where the ducks in Central Park go in the winter, his roommate's clipping of toenails and sex. He also has developed the incredibly annoying habit of saying something, then reiterating it as if his audience does not believe him. He really does, I swear to God. After a while, classic or not, defining character trait or not, you want to smack him. You really do. But that was really the only left-over hostility I felt for what many consider to be the Great American Novel. Maybe it's because Holden is now a fellow college student, and I can commiserate with him when people drop into his room unannounced or are obnoxious. Maybe it's because I have grown into a very random thought pattern myself, so I no longer find the subject jumps to be quite so annoying. It could be because young Master Caulfield is a cynic, and I am an individual who celebrates cynicism and sarcasm, as these are characteristics which seem to be even more the rage today than they were in the '50s. Or could it be because there's still such a fervor over "Catcher," even though it was originally published in 1951. And while we're at it, exactly WHY is there such a fervor over the book? Is it because Salinger, after completion and publication, slipped away from the American public and became a recluse, writing (or so we think) in the comfort of his own home behind a great wall of silence? Would we still like the story if J.D. Salinger were the century's Stephen King, pumping out novel after novel after novel, and "The Catcher in the Rye" was just the book between "Franny and Zooey" and "Hapworth 16, 1924"? Would we still applaud if Holden Caulfield were the adolescent cynic created by a one-time author named Milton Nosepicker? Or does the story transcend its author, his seclusion or the fervor around it? The answer is up to you. I'm stumped.
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Summary: A Grrrrrreat Read!
Review: I read this book when I was thirteen years old and I fell in love with it. I read it for twenty four hours a day, page after page, reading it through everything, putting it in a plastic bag in the bath...going to all extents to finish it. I finished the whole book in two days and I absolutely loved it. The whole story is witty, funny, sad and you feel really involved with the story and you know the character like a friend, perhaps even part of your family. It is hard to believe the book was written such a long time ago but it is definitely one of my all-time favourites. It brings out the best in J.D Salinger.
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Summary: 15 Years Latter
Review: I read this book as a sophomore in High School and didn't think too much of it. But 15 years latter the book name still pops up in references all over so I decided to give it another read. Well it is defiently worth the reread if your in the same boat. So much of the book makes a lot more sense today and I see it's words in action today better than I did back then. The greatest thing I find about the book is it's simplicity in story and words showing the shallowness of people and life yet it still brings out the bright spots out there that make it all worth while when you look deep down.
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Summary: real life situation
Review: this is my all time favorite book.ive read it 6 times straight in a row .i would reccokmed it to any one betwwen the ages of 15 to 17. what i liked about it is that it tells it like it is.not like how these tv sitcoms portray "the perfect life" its something ANY high school kid can relate to.
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Summary: A SAD DISAPPOINTMENT
Review: This book is known as a classic for it's simplicity. It is not symbolic, beautifully worded, are even an elegant story. It is not the crude language that turned me off, I liked that because it set tone for the book. It was the fact that I do not believe this story has any artistic value, other than it's over 100 pages. What can I say, different strokes for different folks. The only reason I would suggest this book is for experience sake. Any well read individual should know this book. That doesn't mean that you have to appreciate it. I also think that this book is not as universal and does not apply to ever adolescent or teenager, I think the only person this book applies to is the author himself. It is a selfishly written , unintentional classic. This book should have a Surgeon Generals Warning or something like that reading... WARNING: This book should not be read while operating heavy machinery, for it strains all intelligent thought from your brain.
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Summary: If you think this is a baseball story, think again. Read on
Review: This story is about a teenage college failout living in the late 1940s in New York City. He hangs around the city for a few days. Finally, he comes to his senses and visits his little sister. He tells her that he wants to be "the catcher in the rye" or the saver of the innocents. He hopes his dream will one day come true so that he can do this. I enjoyed this story because it tells of a normal teenager in a normal setting. It does not show a phony person or someone who has a perfect life. I would recommend this book to friends because they, like me, enjoy reading books about real people in real places.
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