The Catcher in the Rye

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Summary: Real Nice
Review: It's an easy book to read, but if u understand and analyze it carefully, Salinger had done a great job. This book is the kind of books that one could read over and over again... it's worth it.

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Summary: The exact description of typical teenager crisis
Review: JD Salinger describes the typical crisis that every one of us goes through during our teenage years. The author blends humor, sarcasm and depression to make this novel one out of a thousand!

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Summary: A BODY MEET A BODY COMING THROUGH THE RYE!
Review: Throughout the book, Holden has so many diiferent things happening for him. From begining to end, there are some things that reveal soemthing about him. Such as the foils on the subway, the red hunting hat, the tumer, 'Giving her the time', etc. Even his dream about the children coming through the rye. It all adds up.=)

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Summary: Remains amazingly applicable 40 years later
Review: The mouthy Holden Caulfield is about to be expelled from yet another boarding school. He decides to return to New York early, and encounters all sorts of darkly comic adventures. Caulfield is the quintessential anti-hero; he tries to be angry and alienated, but still wants to catch people, to save them. He is not angry, but weary and jaded. His wild dreams of escape are shattered by reality, rendering this story a true tragedy.

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Summary: A masterpiece
Review: There is a big, big problem when one finishes reading "The Catcher in the Rye". Every other book you read after Salinger's will not have the same effect on you. Holden Caulfield is as true as your father or as true as your brother. A teenager growing up in a world of adults. A teenager who wants to be free in a world of adults, of rules. Salinger was trying to understand what was going on the earth on those days. Rock and roll, beats, drugs, No war make love, the power to a new generation. Bau he gave no definitive answers, he just showed the difficult road one has to follow if he or she wants to be free, to be free in society. It's a book, a poem of the difficut passage of a youngster who is growing up in a world of adults.

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Summary: Catcher in the Rye
Review: The book Catcher in the Rye is a great novel. During the whole story, Holden releases a lot of emotions, tensions, and his hatred and also the things that bother him. His character is very easy to relate with because you share his feelings and you can understand why he feels the way he does towards other people or things. Throughout my life, I have to admit that "Catcher in the Rye" is one of the best book I've actually read and enjoyed reading.

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Summary: A funny and entertaining novel you will enjoy.
Review: The Catcher in the Rye is the best book that I've read so far. It's very entertaining and very funny. When reading this novel, you can really relate to the protagonist, a high school boy named Holden Caulfield. You can actually feel what he feels and think what he thinks. It's great because not only do you understand what is going on, but you get the sense that you are in the book. This book is and "adaptation to life" novel. What you will read about is how Holden lives his high school years in pain and discomfort. You will encounter many obstacles that he and yourself has faced as a young adult. Once you begin to adart, you won't stop!

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Summary: A page tyring autobiography
Review: The Catcher In the Rye is a book all young women and men should read. From experience, once you put this book in your hands, you can't stop reading. The story is based on the main character, a teenage boy named Holden Caufield. He tells us a major part of his life, day by day, until the outcome of it. When you read this book, you will be able to realte to Holden and his different situations. And for all the young women who want to see life through a boys view or how they think on a day by day basis, read this book.

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Summary: Wherefore art thou JD
Review: I know, I know, JD doesn't like the outside world, but just say I wanted to write him, how would I do that? For some unknown cosmic reason, my hand is compelling me to write. I want to write! I want to talk to someone more insane than me, not that JD is insane but he just gets it ...

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Summary: The Catcher In The Rye
Review: This classic novel is about a young lad growing up in the fifties struggling through the process of life. Rejected from society and fighting to be himself he cannot seem to do anything right. Basically, Holden Caulfield complains for 214 pages of agony. There are some good symbolic parts to it containing homosexuality, zen buddhism, and alienation. Yet, the novel lags in creativity and difference in sections. Salinger did a wonderful job of whining about nearly the same subjects throughout the whole book. Although the book is not very good it is not terrible. I found the symbolism interesting but the main text repetitive which, quite frankly, bored me. Every other word out of Holden Caulfield's mouth is a complaint, which is not too bad for a few chapters, but the whole novel seems to be based on his lack of interest for life and depression which he cannot deal with or vent. Overall, the book did not interest me much because of the excessive whining and the fact that the book did not flow.