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Summary: Don't read the book!
Review: 'The catcher in the Rye' is a boring, uninteresting book. Holden Caulfield is not someone I feel related to at all. Everybody feels depressed once in a while. But that doesn't mean you think and feel like Holden does. He criticises everything he keeps calling peoples phoneys just he can't imagine being like them. When somebody's positive about life Holden thinks it is because they didn't live in reality. I think Holden himself has no idea what life is about, he is just a scared messed-up teenager, that tries to loose his frustrations by criticising others. He behaves like a brat because he doesn't want to admit the good things n life. When his little sister Phoebe asks m to list the things he loved he couldn't think of anything at all. I kept hoping the book would get better but it didn't, the whole story was about nothing. Normally I can find at least one thing in a book that made it worth reading but I didn't this time. I don't understand that it is considered to be literature. Maybe it was a very modern book in the fifties but that is the only good thing I can say about it.
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Summary: This book came just in time !
Review: I liked this book as much as I hated it sometimes. I found it a good novel because the story of Holdon often relates to my own life. The reason I hated it smoetimes was that it took Salinger so long say what I already knew after one page.Because it's a story that we, teenagers, all know , it's fun reading. I often caught myself thinking : « He's absolutely right » or « I know that feeling » My opinion on school and authority is quiet the same as Holdon 's. The big difference is that I don't blame others for my mistakes or hate society. I'm not suicidal either nor depressed. When I read this I realised that Holdon is not the kind of person I would like to become. This book came actually right on time for me. I'll have to work very hard to get my certificate and I don't want to do my year over in another school like Holdon did several times. I'll think of Holdon when I'm losing faith, ending up like him is tha last thing I want .
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Summary: I didn't like it at all !
Review: After I have read this book, I may say that it was a waste of time. I hate reading books and surely when it is about a young, stupid person who thinks he's THE MAN It's full of flashbacks, repeatments.The only good thing about this book is that it's realistic in a way.When I read a book like this I'm not focused at all. I understand it when people like this book, but I don't, because I dislike Holden that much that when he would be in our class we have disputes all the time.He's depressed all the time.I hate such people as much as this book. If you don't have to read it, don't. If you have to, good luck!
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Summary: Good, but not the best novel ever
Review: I'm an 18 year old boy and I most of the time enjoyed the book.The fact that the main character in the book, is a person who is almost as old as me(only 2 years of difference)so I could easy imagine what Holden means, you really can transform yourself into his mind and you can understand the things he says. A lot of other reviewers say the book is written in the "slangy" language of teenagers. I agree with that and although the novel has been written in '51, you see that there hasn't changed a lot for teenagers. Despite this all, I haven't started to read the book with the intention of discovering a deeper meaning and I didn't found one either. So I don't believe people who say that this book can help teenagers to find their true self and the truth about life. Books are in my opinion written to entertain, to let the readers relax. I want to finish with an advice:if you are a teenager, read the book, otherwise :DON'T. Thank you for reading my review and greetings from Belgium.
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Summary: Outstanding but also a bit disappointing
Review: The Catcher in the Rye talks about problems that teenagers face every day. While I can identify with Holden and his situation, I find the transition between childhood and adulthood a bit too negative and there is no real development. Holden describes the adult world too negative. The story is good but I think that it isn't a very typical story of people finding themselves. The book is easy to read because the vocabulary isn't difficult but there are a lot of deaper meanings in it that make sence if you try to figure out what they mean. A down point is that Salinger goes on and on about unimportant things and that it is too pessimistic. The Catcher in the Rye was outsanding but also a bit disappointing.
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Summary: Catcher in the rye SUCKS
Review: Reading this book was a dull thing to do. I didn't like it because the style Salinger used began to work on my nerves after a while. The language Holden uses is recognizabel from TV and rap music because he swears a lot. In the beginning this was quite amuzing but it irritated me in the end.Holden never knows what he has to do, he constantly hesitates when he has to make a decision.The only thing what matters for him is what other people think about him. The things Holden does aren't very realistic, which 16-year-old boy would hire a prostitute in stead of visiting his mum who lives a few blocks further? I think Holden is a sick person whose personality is only interesting for psychiatrists. The only good thing about him is the fact that he always wants to protect others. But if he is really so loving and caring, why does he lie so much? The intire book is one big lie, none of it is thrue and therefor reading this book is a useless thing to do.
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Summary: pretty nice
Review: I don't really know what to think about the book. In a way I liked it, because the author just writes down every little thing he has on his mind and you really go through the mind of a teenager. (you get to see the good stuff, the bad stuff, but also the stuff of all-day.) The way Holden Caulfield has written this book is very realistic and open-minded. So that's definitely a part I liked a lot ( and I'm sure all readers who are interested in how people think, will like that to!). The happenings in the book aren't very various, but I don't think they were supposed to be, because if you want to describe the life of a teeenager in four days, it's not always that exciting and various. Also the other characters are really realistic, no drivel, just real life. All by all, it's a pretty nice book for those who are interested in human behaviour (and thinking), so read it.
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Summary: 'The Cattcher in the rye'
Review: When we got the book 'the catcher in the rye', it was quite a task for me. When I started to read it, I found the novel very difficult and I couldn't understand the story very good. After a while my interests for the story came and reading the book was a lot easier. Although there doesn't happen a lot in this story, the catcher in the rye is a good and entertaining book. The way Holden thinks about the world surrounding him, is really written in a great way. holden really despises everyone, except for his brothers and sisters. The writer has reallly made the thoughts Holden has come to life. I think that is a hard thing to do. The most touching piece of this book was the last one. Holden had made sure that phoebe received a little paper with a message from him in which he told her to meet him. When Phoebe arrived with her suitcase, I thought I was going to cry. That part of the story touched me a lot. It was so sweet!!! I also liked the way it was written. holden tells you everything he thinks and so on. His language is excellent, especially because it is written the way he says it.
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Summary: Waste of Time
Review: I'm not the kind of person who reads a lot of books and this book is a reason why. First the story is not interesting and also the way it's told is very stupid. It takes you hourst to read it and then find out you just read about some stupid 'adventure' of a young lad which i don't even believe, even if it's fiction. Just reading about a young depressed kid, makes me depressed, not just because i wasted my time reading it, but because it's just not a good story. The last thing i want to say is that the repetition in this book is terrible. Every 5 sentences the same word: Chrissake, goddam, sunnavabitch... Just read the first 5 pages and then you read the whole book.
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Summary: Catcher didn't catch me!!
Review: You can read the story plot from someone elses reveiw, I don't think I need to take the time. I have just started to go back and read all the books I was suppose to read in high school and can't remember if I actually read this one or not back then. This is the type of book that turned me off to reading. With books like this mandatory to read in high school no wonder I have not read a book in 10 years. Maybe I don't get the hidden messages that are suppose to be buired in some books but this was not an enjoyable book. I did read the whole thing thinking something would eventualy happen and it did not. If you are just starting to read books don't pick this one up for a while.
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