The Catcher in the Rye
by:
J.D. Salinger (author)
Classic Literature, Literary Sturdies, American Literature
Classic Literature, Literary Sturdies, American Literature
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780553250251 (0553250256)
Publish date: November 1st 1984
Publisher: Bantam
Pages no: 214
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Read For School,
American,
Classic Literature,
Coming Of Age,
High School
Ach Holden, wie vielen Jugendlichen geht es so wie dir? Kein Kind mehr und auch noch kein Erwachsener. Wie schwer es ist sich manchmal in der Welt zurechtzufinden. Seinen Platz zu behaupten, vor allem wenn man das Gefühl hat, dass es keinen Platz für einen gibt. Es wundert mich nicht, dass das Buch...
I understand why you should not read this for the first time as an adult but my education was neglected in my teens, obviously, since I did not read it then. Holden is a pain where the sun don't shine. He is so whiny. He acts as if he's seen everything, done everything, and knows everything but, ...
It's true that I didn't remember the book this way. Maybe I was too young the first time I read it, but certainly there were things I needed to live to fully understand it.However, I didn't quite like it the first time... and still didn't quite like it this one. I feel Holden's pain about some thing...
This review will contain spoilers, so if you want to avoid knowing all the details of the sparse and meaningless plot, maybe skip the first couple of paragraphs. Holden Caulfield is a self-important, spoiled and worthless little shit. At the start of the book, he is cooling his heels at the fourt...
Going to have to separate the artist from the art here. I know that Catcher was a deeply personal book to Salinger, but that doesn't change the fact that it was immensely dull to read.In theory, this should have appealed to me, according to the vast majority of the readers who consider it an endurin...
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