The Catcher in the Rye

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Summary: A BOOK THAT GETS BETTER EVERY TIME YOU READ IT
Review: I have read this book many, many times and each time I enjoy it even more. Brilliant writing, this book is a classic for a reason.

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Summary: Great Book....It Was Way Ahead of its Time
Review: Im a 16 year old male and i find it very hard to read any novel, but i could not put this one down. This is a great book and the thoughts and feelings that Holden had are some of the exact same that i often have. I espeacially liked the two old nuns and the way Holden treated them and thought of them. I think everyone should this book once

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Summary: Not a bad read
Review: I don't get it. I read the book in an honors English class, I studied it, I talked about it, I thought about it. It's not bad, but it's not particularly good either. I think maybe it's just that for many teens (not all!) it's the first "real" book they ever read and really get, and that's because there's not much to get. Weird.

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Summary: Holden Caulfield was not a bad boy and this is a great book!
Review: I have got quite a big personal library during the years. At some stage I bought both The Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger, but never got around to read them. Finally on a trip to Europe a couple of months ago, stopping in New York on the way, I packed The Catcher in the Rye in my luggage. As it is set in New York I started reading it on the plane from New York to London. And did I enjoy it?! Man, what have I been thinking, waiting so long? I got so much on terms with Holden Caulfield, that I started to write like him in a couple of letters I wrote. The evening I arrived in London there was a brilliant documentary about J.D. Salinger on TV. I was totally absorbed, and enjoyed every page of the book, admired Salinger's portrayal of adolescence. Such a comic and touching novel. I continued to read it on the train up north through Sweden and at some stage laughed so much I had to put the book down - people were looking strangely at me. They just fitted into the book, had probably never read it. I have and I loved every bit of it. Not to be missed, so don't wait, just go ahead and read it!

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Summary: Mildly interesting but repetitive and over-rated.
Review: Because I think good literature is timeless, it bothers me when a favorite book is labeled on these pages as "probably good when it was written but boring and dated now." But I'd have to apply this statement to Catcher In the Rye. I first read it nearly 30 years ago but re-read it a few months ago. I can't say "it killed me." It just bored me.

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Summary: Interesting, but not as great as some may suggest.
Review: I'm not one of those "phonies" who will complain about lack of plot and such in this book. The language that Holden uses is amazingly fresh, even today. It sounds just like the way I talked with friends as a kid (I'm 24). Still, I'm just not sure that accurately capturing the language and the emotions of youth is all that groundbreaking. This is a decent read, it will entertain you. But it won't change your life or anything. It actually reminds me a lot of books by Douglas Coupland (Generation X, Life After God, etc.). Except Coupland also deals with more interesting ideas.

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Summary: Classic, but fading a little
Review: I received this book for Father's Day along with "The Triumph and the Glory", and enjoyed reading Salinger's great novel once again. I still found it brilliant at times, although it still seemed to drift somewhat without any direction I could decipher. But the good sections were VERY GOOD, so Catcher in the Rye still gets four stars from me. "The Triumph and the Glory" was great, the young pilot reminded me of Holden Caulfield.

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Summary: THE BEST STORY EVER WRITTEN
Review: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE is a simple masterpiece. I do believe though, that it takes a certain kind of person to enjoy it to this extent. Holden Caulfield cannot in any way be characterized as a typical teenager. In fact he's not a regular person at all. J. D. Salinger in this book brilliantly takes us into Holden's exquisit mind, and exposes us to a whole new perception of life. I can honestly say this book had changed me and made me see the real imortance in life. Anybody who cannot understand this book this way now-never will. Salinger is no less than a genious.

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Summary: great--of course
Review: Hmm...Having your privacy invaded (your personal letters put up for auction, your love affairs made public) is good for sales, I guess. Oh, well, this was a great book then, and it's a great book now. Just to be sure you don't misunderstand it, you might like to read some other J.D. Salinger works as well--at least the delightful "Nine Stories". Also recommended: PENTATONIC SCALES FOR THE JAZZ-ROCK KEYBOARDIST by Jeff Burns.

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Summary: No Offense Intended.
Review: I don't want to sound nasty but I'm a 15 year old girl and I read The Catcher In The Rye because I'd heard so much about how it was a timeless classic and how it perfectly portrayed teenage life etc. But I found the book incredibly boring, very unfunny and totally unrealistic so to speak. This Holden guy was behaving like a 30 year old, not a young teenager like myself and I found the book quite insulting to teenagers. I can't even describe how disapointed I was. Even Sweet Valley High is more realistic than this piece of nonsense.