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Summary: Overrated
Review: This book is extremely overrated. While I appreciate Salinger's writing style, the story itself is pointless. Holden Caufield whines for 200-odd pages. This is somehow supposed to be relevant or edgy, but really it is just boring. The reader is given no reason to like or care about Caufield or his story. Why people gush over this book is beyond me. All Salinger has done is to paint a stereotype of a weak, callous, angry young man. I feel sorry for anyone who says they "relate" to this book, because it is clearly a condemnation on Salinger's part of youth in general, which I believe is unfair.
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Summary: OVERRATED- salinger's other works are much better
Review: Although I do have to agree with most of the people below that CATCHER is entertaining and a page-turner, it definitely did not give me the feeling of enlightenment reading other Salinger books did. CATCHER doesn't really have a plot or a meaning to me. Holden Caulfield is a boring, predictable, spoiled-brat prep school kid. Salinger's other characters (the Glass family) are much more multi-faceted and interesting. Do yourself a service and read Franny & Zooey or Raise the Roof Beam High, Carpenters & Seymour.His other books appeal to anyone on a spiritual search or who just want intelligently written books, not just teenagers who need to be coaxed with a mindless plot including lots of swearing, smoking, and sex to read a book. (by the way, i am a teenager, not a whiny middle-aged person)
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Summary: My Favorite Book
Review: I have read and reread this brillant book so many times that I have lost count. Holden Caulfield is a character that I can relate to. I fell in love with him by the fourth chapter just by the actions that he was doing (turning the facuets on and off). It's the small things that I appreicated. When Holden asked Sally to run off with him, I wanted to go. I felt like I was right there watching the whole scene. This is my favorite book.
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Summary: Loved this Book!
Review: This is a wonderful book of observations from the eyes of a teenager. Salinger does a great job of explaining the world according to Holden. It was easy for me to associate my experiences with this character.
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Summary: definitly a 5 star book
Review: This is a book about a 16 yr old boy,Holden living in New York, and two days in his life. There is a large amount of deep descriptive writing which really allows you to get deep into Holden's mind. The carefully chosen useful words and the style in which its written makes this the best book ever. You really feel like you have connected with the character anhd the book really speaks to you.
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Summary: A male point of view...
Review: Salinger presents the hardships of growing up through a male point of view in Holden, and it was very easy to identify with his overall disgust of the world and some of its more "phony" members. However, the narration is not necessarily geared toward males or teenagers. There are universal themes to be found here, hence making this novel the classic that it is.
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Summary: The Catcher in the Rye
Review: Although this book is world known and acclaimed, in my opinion, The Catcher in the Rye is over rated. I heard so many higholy esteemed remarks about this book. People had told me it related to the youth of today so accurately. They told me the main character, Houlden, had to deal with many of the same things we deal with today. This statement in some areas could be considered somewhat correct, but it one sense, it is incorrect. I am a junior in high school and the only thing that Houlden and I have in common is that we are both seventeen. Houlden does not apply himself in school, like I apply myself in school, and when he fails he blames it on other people. he runs away from his problems, and it seems he tries to find all the negatives in life. I noticed how ignorant and immature Houlden was by how he dealt with people. This book also suggests that it is okay to not to try your hardest and grow up into a responsible adult. It gives readers a wrong idea of what is important in life. I would not recommend this book to people who would be influenced by Houlden's behavior. This book was a easy book to understand and read through though. It is a good book to say that you have read it, because most people have.
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Summary: Mark's reveiw
Review: This book has the ability to relate to a young man like no other book I have ever read. This book describes episodes so mundane yet so real. The ability of Salinger to allow the reader to come into the situation and imagine yourself as the character is unduplicateable unless in in a field of Rye grass or at home enjoying a favorite book.
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Summary: The Catcher in the Rye
Review: J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye portrays Holden Caulfield as a sixteen-year old, white, upper class, New Yorker in the 1950s. The book shows Holden's unwillingness to grow up and his struggle with loneliness. Salinger does a good job of describing how Holden feels about people and things. For example, when he is talking about a young man he met that went to a good college, he says "The jerk had one of those very phony, Ivy League voices, one of those very tired, snobby voices. He sounded just like a girl." This helps you understand that Holden doesn't like phony people. He uses language that convinces readers that Holden is a young man from New York in the mid-twentieth century. This book is easy for teenagers to relate to because they can associate with his stupid actions and propensity for deception, along with his adolescent silliness and his genuine care for innocence. I think the book is provocative and well written.
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Summary: Holden: an old character but a motivation to the new
Review: Me and my friend Carla just finished reading the book and just think it is great. Of an accessible language, mainly slang, it captures anyone looking for a guide to social training. What we enjoyed most was the range of language but we feel there should be a lot more professional and academic materials with which to learn as, in some countries like Portugal, it is part of the curriculum at certain colleges for those who are studying modern languages and translation.
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