The Catcher in the Rye

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Summary: Heated Controversy for Schools? Ha!
Review: I think I've always read books that are of a higher educational standard. I read "The Diary of Anne Frank" for the first time when I was nine, and "The Catcher In the Rye" also for the first time when I turned 10. Since then, I've read "Catcher" completely through (vulgar page by vulgar page) four times. Although the use of the English language leaves something to be desired (Holden's repetitive use of "Really" and "Goddam it" can be of the utmost annoyance) and the 'plot' is quite predictable, I keep reading it. I've heard that it is a highly controversial book in high schools. Whoever thinks the book should be banned because of its 'naughtiness' is a fool. Look at society today. We're teaching sex ed. as early as the fourth grade. Don't tell me that kids are going to learn anything new by reading this book. If it was a mandatory book to read so many years ago, why isn't it acceptable now? It's a joke, really

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Summary: I Keep Going Back
Review: It never fails, whenever life tosses me a curve, I always go back to Holden and his sister. Holden and Salinger's Glass family have provided me thousands of hours of pleasure. No one can ask more of an author

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Summary: Thank you Holden Caufield
Review: Holden, You have shaped the way I live my life and influenced who I will be forever... and I am forever indebted.

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Summary: The "Catcher In the Rye" has no plot and is vulgar.
Review: The "Catcher In the Rye" has offended myself aswell as anyone who is human. That might sound like a generlization but, if you like this book you have to love generalizing. This book is filled with vulgar speech and has no place in our classrooms. If a person wants to read it, well then it is their right but, it should not be forced upon teenagers to read it

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Summary: Holden is deep and complicated. And thats cool. Sorta.
Review: Holden is this teenage malcontent who gets sick of school and analyzes stuff a lot. He'd like to off himself, but he's a wuss. My guess is that when he weathers this crisis he's in, he'll start churning out short stories under his real name, write a few novels, and then disappear into anonymity for the rest of life because, well, he'll be embarrassed that he made so much money

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Summary: Holden Caulfield, a phony like the rest
Review: I think that this book was pretty good. This book is about a boy that keeps flunking out of school without much direction in life. He has a lot of potential, as said in the book by Mr. Antolini. He is too preocupied in finding "phonies" that he can't focus on what is really important so that he can't enjoy life. He is always pretending to be older than he really is, lying about who he is, everything else about himself and he doesn't even realise that he is a phony. He sees himself as "the catcher in the rye", which is a protector of the innocent and the preventer of others becoming phony

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Summary: The single most influential post-WWII American novel
Review: If "Catcher" seems a bit tame by today's jaded standards, it's only because Holden Caufield has, in the 50 years since his debut, become the standard blueprint for countless fictional anti-heros who came after. The deconstruction of American society in popular culture has long since lost its novelty and the power to shock us. But Caufield was the original, and his was the literary shot heard 'round the world. Read it, if only to become aware of how much of contemporary literature derives from it

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Summary: Catcher in the Rye: THE TRUTH HURTS!
Review: Holden's phony. Salinger's eulogy to the non-conformist, no-b.s., see-it-how-it-is prodigy misses the mark. Anyone gifted (even by an author) with Holden's seer-like insight would be capable of cutting the crap without freaking out.
Read this book if it's the last thing you do . . . you can put that in my obituary. OUCH

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Summary: J.D. UNDERSTANDS THE ALIENATION I FEEL
Review: as a thai girl who happened to pick this book up because it's on her sister's boookshelve, i'm not sure whether i'm gonna be able to describe how i really feel about it since i'm not a native speaker like many of the readers. one thing i can say is that while i was reading the book, alone in mcdonald's, i felt as if i were holden. i have to admit that it's painful though, to read a stuff that reminded you so much of your life. but in a way, it was like a relief knowing that how you've been feeling all along had been (and,presumably, is being) shared by someone. i'm not sure that this is the best book i've ever read or not, but it sure is the most favorite one i have recently. i wish everyone can understand and learn something from him. at the end of the book i realized that while i felt the emphaty holden'd given me, i also felt how phony i sometime was. i'm so surprised my sister never mentioned this book to me before i found it myself. i guess she's one of the lucky people who never suffers from alienantion that she wasn't impressed about the book enough to talk about it

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Summary: my most favorite-est book ever!
Review: i read this book for the first time when i was a freshman in high school. i fell in love with holden caufeild, and could so easily identify with him. i felt like he was with me, like he was inside my head! i have read it many times since then, and each time i discover something new. it is a perfectly spun tale, coated with beautifully vivid anecdotes that will keep you smiling even through natural disasters. to know holden is to love him. what else can i say