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Summary: Early Grunberg
Review: If you want to know more about the writer's who came before Grunberg, you have to read this book.
Lonely boy, lost in the city, is looking fot his life...
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Summary: Holden is "phony"
Review: JD Salinger's loose style of writing is excellent. i love how its so easy to read and follow, this book is a very good book because of Salinger's writing technique, but Holden, a rich, depressed boy, is nothing but a hypocrite. I liked the story though because its almost funny to hear Holden bitching about other characters he believes are phony when he in fact is just like them. it reminds me about a lot of people i know, those types who say "i hate when people think there better then others" and "I hate when people talk behind eachothers backs" poor spoiled little rich kid :( i feel bad for Holden.
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Summary: Hand Me The Spork Already
Review: This is an overrated waste of ink. Honestly. I really think I could write a better novel about "coming of age" in my sleep. Maybe I will. But I digress.
The main character, Holden Caulfield, is so one-dimensional it makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a spork. Really. He sees the world in a childish, cynical way more suited for a spoiled ten-year-old. He refers to everyone as phonies and bastards and uses a limited vocabulary to repeatedly rehash subjects that weren't interesting the first time around. I have nothing against J. D. Salinger; he only tired to write a book. What really gets under my skin is that such a book is considered a classic. It's a crying shame.
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Summary: Good idea but would work better in a shorter form
Review: I loved the narrator's "talking style" as someone else here referred to it. I was amazed that a book written in that common language style of the 40s would fit in very well with the language many teens use today. Almost undated at all. Only in his outward respect to elders which today's cynical kids don't display.My problem with the novel is the humor and freshness wears thin after about 80-90 pages. I think this novel could have been half the length and would have been much more effective.
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Summary: Goodly.
Review: I could really relate to the character in this book because...well I don't know but he's pretty realistic. So are the others in the book, especially those he views with some disdain. If you liked this and you are a girl you will probably also like The Bell Jar and Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk. Maybe.
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Summary: The best book ever
Review: This book is the best book anyone can read. The first time I read this book I totally fell in love with it. Later on when I got to highschool I read it agian and loved it even more. This book is a timeless book a teenager from today can read it and very easily identify himself with it. I love Holden, he is so nice, smart, and so sensible with everything. I love the way he thinks and the way he expresses himself. I think everybody should read this book at least once. I got so into the book I felt so bad that Holden was going through all that nervous breakdown. I think this books fits all and I recommend it to all the people who love to read good books.
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Summary: Captures true feelings of coming of age
Review: I've read this book many times over the years, from my first encounter in high school, to the most recent times, discussing it with my high-school children as they read it for the first time. Each time I read it, I'm struck more deeply by how truly it captures the rebellion, exhilaration, worry, fear, and rootless wandering which faced or faces us all as we journey from youth to adulthood. The language is crisp, funny, never lags. Holden Caulfield's adventures catch and keep our interest, and we care what happens to him as we accompany him through his wanderings, but the thing that strikes me after all these years is how deeply JD Salinger captured the feelings that Holden was living with each day: What happens to those ducks in winter, what happens to us all as our warm and safe childhood lives slowly become the cold, hard, unyielding lives of adulthood, and who is there to catch us as we pass through the rye. Does anyone look out for us any more? Are we alone, on our own? A beautiful, evocative book, for teenagers, adults, or parents helping their own teenagers navigate this remarkable journey.
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Summary: Catcher Review
Review: The Catcher in the Rye in written by J.D Salinger. It is about Holden, an 16 years old boy, who talks in a very sarcastic way about his childhood, his growing up, his school life and his sexlife which doesen't exist. The book is written in talking speech, the narrator uses simple language, so it's easy to understand. The narrator exagerates often to make the "problems" of the adolescents understandable. First the story is very depressing, because you only see Holden's problems and there seems to be no way out of this darkness..but wait until the end..
I like the book and I dislike it: I felt depressed when I started reading it and bored, but then I began to think about all these problems and so on. It had a positive effect towards my life, because I started thinking about my way to live and now I'm persuaded that you can do something good with your life, if you really want to...
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Summary: My opinion of "the catcher in the rye"
Review: The storyline of the book is good, but Salinger could have used a better style to write it. He writes about a really weird person who has minority complexes. The book is supposed to be an autobiography, but I think it is exagerated. Salinger uses a poor style, and often swearwords. The book is inapropriate for younger and older people. You should be a teenager to like it and you shouldn't search for any Latinized words. That could be the reason why it wasn't published early in GB in the original version. I liked most of the book (maybe because I'm a teenager) but he often repeats the same sentences. The book has long passages, with few tension, which make it hard to read sometimes. But all besides that it wasn't too bad. It is a great achivement for a 17 year old boy to write a story like that.
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Summary: The Catcher in the Rye - the story of a depressed boy
Review: I read the book "The Catcher in the Rye" in school with my English classc. It is not so hard to read, not even for young people, since Holden uses a very slangy type of language and you get through it fast. I think it is fairly interesting to read, because you learn a lot about how adolescents think, although it is not possible to say that all adolescents think like Holden, because he shows some qualities which are not usual for every teenager.
I think J. D. Salinger tried to write a book which is easy and well for young people to read, that is the reason for him to write about teenager problems,but Holden is a very depressed person. There are a lot of aspects about life which he just takes too serious. Some of the things he thinks about are actually significant for all teenagers, but a lot of them are a little bit exaggerated.
Further I think the book does not have a real plot. It is just the story of a teenager, who has to cope with problems, which he produces himself. There are just a few aspects, with which I can identify. Maybe J.D. Salinger just wanted to show, what may happen if adolescents feel alone.
If you are interested in what a depressed adolescent's life looks like, I can recommend the book, but if you do not want to get closer to teenager problems, this is not the right book for you.
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