The Catcher in the Rye
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- ISBN13: 9780316769488
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Holden, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to place early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the tale of what he did and suffered there.Amazon.com Review
Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with “cynical adolescent.” Holden narrates the tale of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-ancient life, just after he’s been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It starts,
“If you really want to hear about it, the 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 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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the book is nothing but a democratic self centered view of life. i could care less about reading a book with a weep-baby wining about his life. this is the type of action that drags this country into the black hole of depression. if a book moves a person and it does not have the words holy bible on the front of it, it shows how lost the person it “stirred” really is.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Ahhh! I /despised/ this book! I had to read it for school and I didn’t even end it. Please, /never/ buy this book. It is like the plague, and should be avoided as such! *Shivers* It gives me the shivers to even reflect about it.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
i have read thousnads of books. but, never have a read a worse book than Catcher in the Rye!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Incessant whining and complaining are all that comprise this book. I cannot for the life of me know why it is such a well-loved novel, or how it even came close to being considered a classic! I had to read this in high school and I HATED every moment of it. To this day, every time I hear the title I cringe. I reflect this book should be forever banned from the list of “Classic, Must-Read Literature”.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
What in the world are you doing? Why are you reading this book. If you knew the history of this book, you lot would not be reading it at all. If you do some research into the book, you would find that Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby, Sirhan Sirhan, James Earl Ray, etc, (all assasins) were establish to have this book on their person when they were caught. It is thought that this book it the code name behind the CIA MK-ULTRA program (from 1952 – 78). I would never read it.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5