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Summary: Boekje
Review: My opinion : "Catcher in the Rye"Catcher in the Rye wasn't a very amusing book if you ask me. In the beginning you can laugh a lot with the personality of Holden Caulfield, but it starts to annoy a person very soon. Holden is a person who seems to hate everything and everybody, they all make him depressed. The comments he has about everybody are really funny in the first chapters, but after a while it made me feel depressed too, it really started to bore me. When I read a book I think it's important that you can recognise yourself in the leading person of the story, or at least feel any sympathy with him or her. In this book I can't. Nothing really happens in the story, it are just a couple of days picked out of someone's life. And it aren't exactly the most exiting days, nothing interesting seems to happen in those days. Besides that Holden himself isn't really interesting too. In fact he's a very immoral boy, he lies and he drinks a lot. He also talks about the most uninteresting things. I'm not surprised when some people get sore at him for that, some of the things he wants to talk about are really boring. If I didn't had to read the book for school, I would never have finished it I geuss.
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Summary: The catcher in the rye
Review: I find it a beautiful story. I admire the manner how the writer wrote the story: the language (the change from 'written' English and 'spoken' English) and the fluent way of telling everything. (During the reading of the book, I had the feeling that I was drifting on the water).
Sometimes are the descriptions too long (for example the museum, Jezus and the belief,...). Holden also tells too much about the things that happened in the past and that aren't necessary for mention because it hasn't to do anything with the (main) story.
The most beautiful parts of the story are the times when Holden and Phoebe are together. I find it lovely how they talk and cheer up each other. Especially when Phoebe stays there with here suitcase and says that she will go with him, when Holden is waiting in the rain while Phoebe is sitting on the carrousel and when holden cries and Phoebe comfort him. You can feel how much they love each other. I couldn't imagine before that a brother and a sister could be such of good friends.
I can see in Holden a friend of my which also has a lot of troubles with school and the system, only the way of ending up the story is spiteful different. Rinse de Kok
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Summary: Proof that beauty lies in simplicity
Review: I am quite surprised by some of the more negative reviews I have seen of this book. How can anyone dismiss Holden Caulfield as a mere "whiner?" Yes, I do agree that (on occasions) Caulfield's cynicism seems somewhat inordinate (he scrutinizes virtually everything and everyone). However, this does not negate the fact that the novel is a true-to-life and touching embodiment of the existential confusion and angst most of us have surely experienced at some stage in our lives. There were so many instances in the book where I was stunned by the sheer "trueness" and realism of Caulfield's observations of human behaviour. Virtually every remark he makes about people and life, every thought, every criticism, makes absolute sense and rings a bell. And what strikes me the most is that his commentaries on life are not limited by time or place. I have never been to America nor am I a westerner, yet a great deal of what Caulfield says is very familiar. Every time I turned a page, there was a statement somewhere that made me think "yes, yes, I know exactly what you mean." And contrary to many people's views, I think the slow pace of the plot is all the more effective because it is real. Most people's lives are not riddled with unceasing adventures; most of us move at the same pace as Caulfield. Besides, the candor and irreverence of the novel (which are surprising even by today's standards) balance the slowness of the plot. Finally, I must say I am impressed by the simplicity of Salinger's diction, the language is so informal and so unpretentious and this is what makes The Catcher in the Rye such a unique book. I will read it again and again.
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Summary: Greatest Adolescent I've Ready So Far
Review: This book touched me in many personal ways. I read it my junior year of high school and was amazed of the similariies between Holden and I. I can understand how some people may not enjoy this book becaue of Holden's pessimistic view on life. But to endeavor into his world when everything is falling apart is entertaining and compelling. By far, one of my top books of all time.
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Summary: I HATED this book
Review: I will try to keep myself composed here, but I absolutely HATED this book. It was slow, had a terrible plot (or lack thereof), and bored the hell out of me. Holden Caulfield does NOT embody anything (like despair, cynicism, and realism as many people say), except for annoyance, and perhaps whininess. Seriously. Not only am I not sympathetic (or empathetic) with him, but I feel the urge to reach into the pages and slap the stuffing out of him. I think perhaps the worst part about the book is that its not even like Holden DOES anything. Hell, things dont even really happen TO him, either. He just drifts around, which would be fine if interesting things happened to him... but they dont. ...
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Summary: Amazing
Review: I really recommend this book, this book is like no other. It basically about a troubled teenager who is in search for his role in life. I think a lot of people would like it because you are really able to relate to the character because many of us have gone trough some of the situations Holden goes through in the book. I will bet that even if you do not like it, you will find it quite different from other books. So if you are interested in reading a good and different book, read the Catcher and the Rye, I liked it a lot, so have many others.
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Summary: Catcher in the rye
Review: After reading and analyzing this book i was so impressed because this book was published in the 1950's and it is still a favorite for a lot of teenagers and a classic for American Literature. The author gives us an excellent view of how was the way of living of a teenager in the 1950's and that is very similar to the way the teens live on these days. The author puts the reader in Holden shoes, and makes him feel like if he were living all what Holden lived. I recomend this book, especially to teennagers.
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Summary: Still wonderful after all these years.
Review: It has been fortysome years since I read CITR in my high school English class. It was a great read this time as well. In fact, I probably enjoyed more as an adult...perhaps a case of arrested development. In any event, I had many laughs, a few revelations and joy. Strong narration and oh so true to any of us who attended boarding school in the 1950's. From now on Catcher In The Rye will be visited yearly. I should never have stayed away so long. I deprived myself of much reading fun. Holden Caufield is still my role model.
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Summary: Unbelievable
Review: This book is the most wonderful book I have ever read. It has everything in it that could be appealing to any such person. The adventures of Holden Caufield are entertaining and my dog's name is pow-wow
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Summary: Not "a" classic, but "the" classic!
Review: There are a number of books out there in the vast sea of literary experience and imagination. However, when it all comes down to it, a book of gritty realism is what really gets us going. Something we can and have related to personally. There is no doubt "The Catcher In The Rye" is the classic book for young and old. The old can reflect and the young can think "how the hell does this old crote know that!?" Truly the most wonderfully written, marvellous pieces of literature ever, up with Jane Eyre, The Oddyssey and The Great Gatsby! As a seventeen year old, I can relate with millions of others.
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