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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780316769174
ISBN number: 0316769177
Label: Back Bay Books
Manufacturer: Back Bay Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 288
Printing Date: January 30, 2001
Publishing house: Back Bay Books
Sale Popularity Level: 216
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Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with 'cynical adolescent.' Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even yesterday and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins,
'If you really want to hear about it, the very first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the very first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them.'
His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation.
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Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with 'cynical adolescent.' Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even yesterday and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins, 'If you really want to hear about it, the very first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the very first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them.' His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation.
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I've read Catcher several times and though it doesn't stand out in my mind as a favorite novel, every time I read it I rediscover how much I enjoy it. I give Catcher five stars because Holden's character holds my interest until the very end. Salinger gives him a complexity that makes him neither saint nor sinner. The reader isn't necessarily going to like Holden, but he isn't someone you'd want to hate either. I think anyone who enjoys people-watching will find Catcher offers plenty to keep the reader entertained with its parade of characters and never dull rantings of Holden at his darkest time.
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My god, probably the most boring, inconsequential book I ever read. Thank god it's a short one though. Spare yourself the trouble and read what wiki has to say about it, you won't take away anything else from this piece of ****. The book makes fun of "Phony" people, well, I say the "Phony" people are all those who recommend this book. They only do it so they don't feel so bad they were the only ones that read it, kind of like the emperor's clothes.
Having said that, I dare you to find a book that says "... and all", "...kills me" and "depressed" more times than this one.
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Note:The reviewer is an EFL learner.
I've just finished reading "The Catcher in the Rye. I think it's both interesting and sad. I checked the book reviews for "Catcher in the Rye" on Amazon and was surprised to find that there were quite some people did not appreciate "Holden" at all and many of them asked him to "Grow up," or "Get a life!"
I like Holden, and I feel sympathy for him. I assume he had reasons to have become what he was like. Most of us had troubled mind with a lot of crazy notions going on when we were young. I mean, come on, when we were younger, hadn't we doubted all those "sit and listen" and wondered if it worth all the struggling being a decent adolescent? And I guess that is one thing "phony" of most adults. They think they know what is right for you. And they seem to accuse you of being immature or ungrateful when you do not follow their "guidance" or "assignmenth. Gratefulness and maturity and something like that are, in most cases, acquired and maybe learned. So I think it's just so true and real of Salingerfs portray of a sixteen Holden Caulfield, sad and angry.
The adult world/ real world was too complicated for Holden. There were a lot in the real world he did not understand. ---Why did Allie have to die? Why should he care about life? Why did Mr. Antonlini do it? And that was probably why Holden wanted to be nothing but gthe catcher in the ryeh. He liked children, they are not complicated and malicious and all. Holden found it easy to get along with them and understand them.
Why did Holden want so much to protect children? Why did he talk about sex yet dare not to try it? I have to say the revelation is in the book. Think about the immediate overreaction of Holden when he was woken up by Mr. Antonlinifs petting on his head. Salinger understated another chapter of Holdenfs life with "That kind of stufffs happened to me about twenty times since I was a kid. I canft stand it."
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I thought this book was entertaining but I didn't get the sense it should have gained all the notoriety that it has. My thoughts when I finished it and put it down was that it must have been written during a period when few other great writes were being written and thus found it's way to the fore front.
Writes on similar subjects as far as finding one's way that I think far surpass this are Keep The Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell, Border Music by Robert James Waller and Damages by Bazhe...
It's entertaining and definitely a worthy read but I think the cult status it has achieved is based largely on it's name.
Which I agree is a fantastic title for a book...
I wouldn't give it less than a four but if you read the above books I mentioned and compare them in literary quality I think you will understand why...
The other books aren't so much about coming of age mind you as a teenager but they are about finding out who you are and this one in my opinion ranks behind all three that I mentioned although again, it is a good read...
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I've always adored this book- some complain that nothing really happens in the prose but the truth is this book is loaded with the type of symbolism that almost anyone can relate to. I read in high school (forced to in fact) and thought of it as fair but then when I came back to it as an adult, I found a lot more love. I think it works best when it is read as an adult looking back on life (rather than while it is happening to a person- which is why so many school kids don't like it). If you, like me, love this book and want to read something that manages to capture a bit of the magic here try Jason Rider's A Space Between.
This is true literature!
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