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Summary: amazingly realistic
Review: This is one of salinger's best book. It's realistic, funny, and just simply great. You'll just love this book, though it may take a few chapters.
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Summary: Beautifully written! and true
Review: I always expected this book to be a long drawn version a teen and phsyco-babble that no teenager would ever use. I was pleasantly suprised. Holden, while frequently cynical, was entertaining and funny. His problems were unique, but he displayed himself just like a teen, and made everyone remember those days growing up.
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Summary: The Best Piece of American Literature that has existed
Review: Salinger has sucessfully portrayed the feelings of the average American Adolescent... To not read this book would be to contradict the necesities that all Americans endure. A classic, Salinger's Holden Caufield works himself into every reader's psychie, as well as their emotions. Even today i have been unable to find an individual who has NOT been able to relate to the trials of Holden... he is an inspiration to be oneself.
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Summary: Absolutely ridiculous
Review: I've always wondered what about this book makes it a classic so I borrowed it from a friend and got ready to be entertained. But I was sorely and thoroughly dissappointed. I can't believe this guy actually suckered a publishing house into actually printing this piece of garbage. Unles they did it as an example of just how NOT to write a book. There is no plot, no real character development and the language is instantly droll. If I hadn't borrowed this book I would have been angry at having been swindled out of good money. Don't waste your time.
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Summary: The most beautiful book I have ever read.
Review: J.D. Salinger is nothing less than a literary genius. Not only has he written a book that has helped many teenagers, including myself, come to term with the emotion turmoil revolving in their heads, he has written a book that even the open-minded adult reader would cherish. He has written this book so elouqently and with such brutal diction. He has written the quintessencial teenage angst novel: an expelled teen that runs away from school for a solo 3 day excursion in New York City, while at the same time trying to find a conneciton to the real world and beating his bloody fists against a brick wall of phonies. I have read this book 6 times, and I plan to read it 60 more times before I die.
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Summary: Well ...
Review: this is the only book that broke my heart forever
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Summary: An Excellent Book
Review: The Catcher in the Rye is one of the Best books that I have ever read! Not only does Sallinger do a wonderful job of presenting the inner-thoughts of a troubled teen, but he also describes this tale in a unique and creative style. This classic 5-star tale is an excellent choice to read. I would recommend it to anyone. Do yourself a favor and read it!
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Summary: Most Powerful and Enjoyable Book I have ever read!!
Review: To be honest, I have not read that many books in my life. This book, "Catcher in the Rye", was given to me as a school assignment. At first, I thought it would be a boring book, just like all the other ones that they give in school. I ended up loving this book. I love Holden Caulfield. Holden speaks the truth about life and about adolesence. He says things that a lot of us feel but don't really admit. Many of the things that Holden speaks of really makes sense. You start to feel that you're not the only one who thinks the same things. I would tell anybody and everybody to read this book. I can totally understand why this book is a classic.
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Summary: great--of course
Review: Hmm...Having your privacy invaded (your personal letters put up for sail, 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".I also very much recommend PENTATONIC SCALES FOR THE JAZZ-ROCK KEYBOARDIST by Jeff Burns.
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Summary: Still thought-provoking
Review: The Catcher in the Rye is a true classic and has lost little luster with time. I recently read The Triumph and the Glory, about fledling youth thrown into the crucible of war, and one of the characters reminded me of Holden Caulfield, so I read Catcher again. Both books are profoundly moving. They both are coming of age tales, perhaps that's why they stick in my mind together. But by all means read Catcher in the Rye, it is timeless.
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