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Story of Holden Caufield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism. Holden, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story of what he did and suffered there.
UrliMancati: It has been said that Barney is Holden at the end of his life. While the twos do not have so much in common, the reader will definitively love both characters.
Ugh. I so wanted to like this book, I just couldn’t get into it, couldn’t see the point of it, can’t understand the hype. Yes, it’s an interesting perspective written in an interesting manner, but is it good? Not in my opinion.
As a banned book, I was drawn to The Catcher in the Rye, and for that reason, I am glad to have read it. I don’t think any books should be banned; if you don’t like them or their content, don’t read them, but don’t ban them.
I would love to write this review on what the book was about, but that too, is difficult - I’m not really sure. A 17-year old boy flunks out of what appears to be his umpteenth school after the death of his brother, and he doesn’t want to face his parents with this news, so he takes a few days meandering around New York having adventures. Meh.
I would, however, suggest reading this, it is highly acclaimed and well-written, just not my cup of tea, plot-wise. ( )
Representation: Minor Asian character Trigger warnings: Smoking, alcohol use, gun violence, racism, racist slurs, suicidal thoughts and suicide mentioned, emesis Score: Seven points out of ten. Find this review on The StoryGraph.
I wanted to read The Catcher in the Rye since I saw it circle my recommendations, and when I saw a library having this, I immediately wanted to pick it up. I couldn't glance at the blurb, since there was no blurb. However, I went in with high hopes. When I closed the final page, the book was enjoyable.
It starts with the first character I see, Holden, who had to leave school after his expulsion and now the only action he can do is to wander around New York. He spends all of the narrative doing that and contemplating others, and, most importantly, himself. I was in Holden's mind throughout the fictional composition, and initially, I was disconnected from him and couldn't relate. I feared I wouldn't enjoy The Catcher in the Rye. Eventually, Holden grew on me and I liked it more and more. However, I still have gripes with it. A less repetitive writing style would've added to The Catcher in the Rye. The author could've put as much effort into the other characters as Holden. But he did not, making it difficult for me to connect or relate to them. For a novel over 200 pages, it's slow-paced. There isn't a genuine conclusion to The Catcher in the Rye, but I delighted myself in reading it nonetheless.( )
Fue de los primeros libros que leí por recomendación de mi profesor de secundaria y me fascinó, retrata de forma muy autentica la adolescencia, los desafíos, las emociones, y la forma de abordarlos. Fue lo que inció que empezara a leer literatura más diversa (fuera de la romantica). ( )
A slightly addictive monologue which left me wondering about why so many of the 'great American novels' that I've read recently, such as Kerouac's On the Road and Roth's Portnoy's Complaint, are monologues about going nowhere. The former (although written earlier) seems to pick up where Catcher in the Rye leaves off; the idea of leaving the city (or a life) and hitching a ride to no particular destination.
Normally, when I read, I mark special passages but here I didn't. Not sure why. Holden's voice is a sustained tour de force but I found myself wondering, at times what certain encounters contributed and how easily they could have been omitted. In many ways I think, with editing it would have made a better short story piece than a novel. Holden does not really go anywhere. ( )
A classic bildungsroman. I liked it less than other coming-of-age-novels I've read such as [b:Siddharta|444555|Siddharta|Hermann Hesse|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1296827112s/444555.jpg|4840290], but in overall it was pretty good. I couldn't relate to the cynical and mistrusting personality of the main character, which, combined with his apathy for the future and his self-fashioned loneliness, set a depressing tone for the book. It was not until I read the analysis from SparkNotes that I begun to understand the novel a little better. It also gives a very interesting impression of the loneliness and shallowness one could experience in citylife in the 50's. ( )
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To my mother
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"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 the truth."
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
I'm quite illiterate but I read a lot.
You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
I do not even like ... cars... I’d rather have a goddamn horse. A horse is at least human, for God’s sake.”
I always pick a gorgeous time to fall over a suitcase or something.
The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'd move.... Nobody'd be different. The only thing that would be different would be you.
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.
What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff — I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.
"Hey, listen," I said. "You know those ducks in that lagoon right near Central Park South? That little lake? By any chance, do you happen to know where they go, the ducks, when it gets all frozen over? Do you happen to know, by any chance?" I realized it was only one chance in a million.
Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.
Certain things they should stay as they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it'll begin to give you an idea what size mind you have. What it'll fit and, maybe, what it won't. After a while, you'll have an idea what kind of thoughts your particular size mind should be wearing. For one thing, it may save you an extraordinary amount of time trying on ideas that don't suit you, that aren't becoming to you. You'll begin to understand your measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Story of Holden Caufield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism. Holden, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story of what he did and suffered there.
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As a banned book, I was drawn to The Catcher in the Rye, and for that reason, I am glad to have read it. I don’t think any books should be banned; if you don’t like them or their content, don’t read them, but don’t ban them.
I would love to write this review on what the book was about, but that too, is difficult - I’m not really sure. A 17-year old boy flunks out of what appears to be his umpteenth school after the death of his brother, and he doesn’t want to face his parents with this news, so he takes a few days meandering around New York having adventures. Meh.
I would, however, suggest reading this, it is highly acclaimed and well-written, just not my cup of tea, plot-wise. (