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The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Amazing!
Review: When I read this book, I was a junior in High School. I found the book to be almost autobiographical. I related to Holden quite well and I felt that he was telling the story of my life. It was quite influential! I enjoyed it greatly and it made me a better person.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: wonderfully depressing
Review: Ok, I don't want this to sound like all of the other reviews, so let me just say that J.D. Salinger really captures the essance of being a teenager. I was only 11 when I read it for the first time, I understood a lot and liked it for the superficial aspects of it. Now I'm 15 and can relate to Holden. I read this book for the third time about a month ago and I think this time I really understood what Holden was going through. I would also like to say to all of you who hate this book, its ok to hate it, but give Salinger some credit. He is a wonderful writter and even if you don't like his books, you should at least give him his credit.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The best book i've ever read
Review: This is a prety good book, where Holden Coufield shows you a way to manage life. Here you find a grat story about a teenager that can't comprend life, but in the other way he lives his way.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Depressed Teen realtes to Holden Caulfield
Review: I am too a depressed teenger and I read the book. It depressed the hell out of me but I can relate to Holden Caulfield. :|

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I'll tap dance if I want to
Review: I can't give the book a ten...it would be the height of arrogance..it really would...but if you want to know what I think of all your reviews and all that other kind of amazon bookstore crap then read on.


I am glad some of you can empathise with me...really I am...I don't want you taking me too seriously though...it ain't good for you..you know who you are.. I've got this friend here in London where I now live...and he always wants to talk about the goddamn book...he remembers reading it when he was 16..and says it depressed the hell out of him..the only bit he liked was me tap dancing and when I turn my hat round the way I like...(I still do that btw)...
then a few years later when he was 18-19 he read it again and says he just found it so funny...I guess what I am trying to convey is that you bring yourself to a book...your moods..your prejudices..your life experiences...and any good book..and I happen to think Mr Salinger's work is a good one...at least provokes some sort of reaction..be it good or bad..


I've lost some of my cynicism...I kinda wore it like a badge at an earlier age...as I've gotten older though..I don't know..sometimes I even think I'm getting idealistic..I keep thinking of that song imagine..
You know I don't even know how much this book costs anymore...and by rights I should know the price of everything and the value of nothing right?
ah well...hope some of you continue to enjoy the book...and to those of you that didn't..it might be worth reading again some day...but don't bust a gut...and don't fake it...

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: A Boring Book
Review: I was hoping this was going to be the genre fitting my type: teenage rebellion and socialism, etc., but it didn't at all. Obviously, cynicist Holden Caufield complains about everything, but the book was completely boring and developed no plot, and I never got through it. I strongly suggest something more like "The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys," which is like "Catcher in the Rye," but is much more humorous and has a plot, even though their main focus is teenage rebellion and socialism, life, troubles, sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. E-mail me anytime... Bobby Petty.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: My favorite book!
Review: I can not believe all the people who wrote such terrible reviews of such a literary classic! Holden is such an wonderful character, and there is so much symbolism here that I think is easily missed by many people (too much to explain here, email me if you want to discuss it). When I was first assigned the book for English class, I read the first chapter and faked the rest, but after a few months, I could not stop thinking about Holden, I read the book over and over. I can get enough of it. Salinger is such a wonderful writer!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Reality
Review: While the actual writing was a little lacking, the story and the reality make up for it amazingly. Holden is such a real character; if anything, he's a little on the extremes, but the elements that compose his extremes exist within every one of us.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: "Catcher in the Rye"
Review: I thought the book Cather in the Rye was all right, that's why I give it a 5. It wasn't what I expected it to be since it was on the book banned list. Holden kept on trailing off or explaining something for two pages. He used some words or phrases way to much like "phony" and "I'm crazy, I really am." He used cuss words a lot like he had never heard them before. And everything ticked him off. The only thing I really like about the book was that I read it pretty fast. I would recommend this book to you if you liked my review.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Personally I give "The Catcher in the Rye" a 3
Review: "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger. Personally I give the book, a 3. The book was not at all a good read. I started the book having high hopes for it. Maybe they were too high. I expected a lot since it has been banned from libraries. I know that there were a lot of cuss words in it, but that just relates to how a teenager would react in that kind of situation. But I think the author did a poor job of showing what it is like for a teenager to think the world should give him everything he wants. I think the only reason this book became so acclaimed was because the way iit was written and the time it came out. The book would not be rated as well if it were to come out today, than when it did in the mid 1900's. I am sure many people disagree with me about what this book had to offer, but I think that if they guy who wrote this was an author it should have been written a little bit better. For God's sake I hope he didn't write to many mre book like that. I don't think society could handle it. I would have recomended he take some writing classes.


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