The Catcher in the Rye

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Summary: If you don't get it...I'm sorry for you
Review: Many people complain that this book is boring and pointless. I can't understand how you could call this masterpiece "pointless". It is a tale of easily the most intersting character of literature I have ever read of, and his escalading battle with mental depression. I have trouble believing that someone could not see the truly amazing patterns and symbols this book holds that all catch up to each other at the end. Many have complained that there is no real ending. I don't think people were seeing the symbolism through all of the amazing (and disturbing) narrative. The book clearly has an ending- and a fabulous one if you have payed attention....One of the best written novels ever made, Catcher in the Rye is something I, and many other teenagers, can relate with.

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Summary: Days in the life of a cynical teenager
Review: A great book about a few days in the life of a cynical teenager. Instead of accepting everything around him and "going with the flow," as so many people do these days, Holden Caulfield chooses to judge everyone and label everything he dislikes as phony. This book made me think a great deal about how I look at other people--people I disagree with and prefer to avoid, and makes me wonder if I am like Holden in some ways. Be warned, though, this book uses a mass of profanity.

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Summary: hated it
Review: "Catcher in the Rye" is considered THE book for teenagers. Well I'm a teenager, I read it, and I hated it. It was a boring, pointless narrative of some whiny rich boy complaining about everything he beholds. Maybe I'm missing something, since most teenagers love it, but frankly I don't understand the hype.

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Summary: Holden Caulfield's Teenage Crisis
Review: This is one of those novels you keep for years because you know you will re-read it eventually. My dusty, yellowed copy was first read over 30 years ago when I was in high school, and has been passed along to both of my daughters who also had to read it in high school. Since my 15 year old is reading it now, I decided to re-read it and remind myself why I kept it around all these years. Obviously, my perspective has changed, but the most remarkable feature of the book is its sheer timelessness. Holden didn't have to deal with the temptations of illegal drugs, or AIDS, or the frantic pace of the internet age, but all of his feelings of depression, loneliness, and teenage cynicism are still a part of the coming of age of our youth today.

The antics of Holden after he is expelled from prep school are hilarious, frightening and heart-warming. He goes to New York City, gets drunk, smokes pack after pack of cigarettes, has a near-close encounter with a prostitute, gives away some of his dwindling hoard of cash to two nuns, calls up old girl friends, and generally fumbles and stumbles his way back to the safety of his home where all is forgiven. He's basically a good person at heart, but can't stand the phoniness and emptiness of the lives of many of the people around him.

The stream of consciousness thinking and dialogue make you feel like you're in Holden's head. With just a few changes of scenery and dialogue, the book could easily be applied to living through the teen years in 2001. 'Catcher in the Rye' is a powerful, significant portrayal of a troubled young person, and it will surely remain on the required reading list for many years to come.

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Summary: AS J.D.SALINGER SAID AT THAT BOOKSIGNING LAST WEEKEND
Review: GOTCHA! No, J.D. Salinger didn't appear at a booksigning last weekend, but I wish he had. So do millions of his other readers. As an author with my debut novel in its initial release (as well as a high school teacher for over twenty years), I am a great admirer of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE. By all counts and by all measures, Salinger's great novel is one of the finest books ever written by an American. It has now been fifty years since THE CATCHER IN THE RYE was first published, and Salinger's story of Holden Caulfield rings as true today as it ever has. Holden's angst-filled voice remains heartfelt and honest. It is a book that everyone should read at least once. It should be read several times. It is a masterpiece, and Salinger should be proud. I am certain he is. Now, if he'd only agree to go on a book promotion tour. There is no better way to see America and meet the American reading public!

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Summary: catcher in the rye, a book for the soul
Review: I absolutely loved this book! It is so thought provoking..it starts out a little slowly but after the first chapter Salinger attacks the story head on. I feel like sometimes I can relate to Holden wanting to be in the rye, wanting to save all those children from the evil of the world. I would recommend this book to any age group, it is one of those books you can read at different times in your life and get something new out of it every time.

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Summary: CATCHER IN THE RYE WILL CATCH YOUR EYE
Review: THIS BOOK IS ABOUT A GOUNG BOY NAMED HOLDEN CAULFIELD AND HIS LIFE DURING HIS TEEN AGE YEARS. IT TALKS ABOUT HIS MANY ATTEMPS AT HAVING ... AND GETTING GIRLD. HLDE GOES TO A PREP SCHOOL IN PENNSYLVANIA BUT IS BEING KICKED OUT BECAUSE OF BAD GRADES. HE EVENTUALLY RUNS AWAY BEFORE HE CAN BE KICKED OUT BECAUSE OF SOMETHING HIS ROOM MATE DOES. HE END UP IN NEW YORK IN A HOLTEL. FROM THERE THINGS REALLY TAKE OFF.I THOUGHT THIS BOOK WAS GREAT. IT DOES A GREAT JOB OF SHOWING WHAT A TEEN AGE BOY GOES THROUGH AS HE IS GROWING UP. THERE IS SOME SLIGHT CURSING IN THE BOOK SO I DON'T RECAMEND IT AS A BED TIME STORY FOR KIDS. IF YOU WANT LAUGHS AND A BOOK YOU JUST DON'T WANT TO PUT DOWN THAN PICK UP A CATCHER IN THE RYE.

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Summary: Travel With Holden
Review: I don't usually give out a full rating but with this one I did.

You have to be patient with this book in the beginning. But you needn't wait too long before you fall into the actual story. Unfortunately, I found it took a lot of patience and consideration to keep up with the style of writing used. It's written in the way of a story being told by the main character with too many grammatical errors and much too much over enthusiasm and repetition. But that's the real 'colour' that J.D. Salinger provides for this book.

Holden Caufield attends a long line of prestigious schools one after the other because he has a habit of being 'kicked out' or 'leaving' at his own free will. From this you can guess how strange his personality is. He is quite an intellectual when it comes to literature and the arts but he fails to show much interest or concentration to either. This is why schools keep kicking him out after a long period of trying to tell him to wake up and study-he fails most of his subjects. He is overall from what is described in his book-a very stubborn and yet free willed, impatient boy who wants to live quietly but not think too deeply about his future with any realistic sense.

The whole story starts with Holden who has decided to tell us all about what happened 'last Christmas'. After being kicked out of another of his schools, Holden knows that he will have to go home on Wednesday and face his parents giving him a huge big lecture as they usually do about the way he has been neglecting his schoolwork. But what really bothers Holden is the fact that he has to stay at school and waste his time in dormitories UNTIL Wednesday. So he decides to use the time he has left before he goes home to his own benefit. He decides to go and have a good time for a change. The book talks about what Holden does to use up the two days before going home and how he decides to run away and live in a cabin next to the woods instead and not go home.

This book is worth the read and worth having on your bookshelf. Holden is a very strange and interesting character and so flexible that most of us will probably find one part of him that is similar to us, you'll read the book and stop at one sentence that makes you stall because you know he's right or that the sentence is talking about you. By the time you stop reading the book you'll realise you've made the shortest little journey across the road but it'll prove to you how amazing a little imagination can be.

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Summary: This is a [...]!!!
Review: I was curious to see what all the hoopla was about, but was sadly disappointed after reading this novel. Salinger excelled in certain areas of the novel, bringing to life a post-war adolescent, catching the themes, settings, etc. of the day. Not bad writing, just not a classic, a la Hemingway, Steinbeck, etc. I will admit, I couldn't put it down: I was waiting to discover where all the "classic" was, but never found it, much like Holden never finds what he's looking for (at least as far as I could tell in one read).

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Summary: THE CATHER IN THE RYE IS GREAT FOR THE MIND
Review: To me this book is very good. Some people may find that this book starts off slow. To me though this book starts off fast enough for me. you will find that this boy describes how some peoples life go. He will show you that life is not always fair but sometimes you just have to deal with it. In this book the author dives right into the book. There is no delay. This book is worth you entire summer to read it. If you don't understand the book then just put it down for a little while and let you mind do the thinking for you. I suggest that you read this book as soon as possible. There was nothing that I did not like, everything that was in here I liked. If you are 13 or older you must read this book. The reason why I say 13 is because this book has alot of cursing in it. Otherwise dive right into the book. Jerome David Salinger was born in New York in 1919. His older sister’s name is Doris. His father, Sol, was in the meat and cheese business. His mother, of whom he was very fond, was Irish Catholic. The catcher in the rye was his classic book that everyone knows him by.