I was between "liked it" and "really liked it" on this, so I went ahead and erred on the side of enthusiasm.Two things were striking to me, this time around. First, this is a *very* different book to a woman in her forties than it was to a teenager. Oddly, in some ways I felt I could relate to it mo...
Salinger's masterpiece is the book I'd have loved to read when I was 16. A wonderfully natural prose that masks (/shows) the carachter's grief and sorrow before that great horror - growing up and facing the world.Featured in my Top 10 High School Readings: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLggYQsUe0c
Antihero. Yes. Icon for teenage rebellion? Maybe. Icon for future serial killers? Also, maybe. A good idea to shove it down the throats of eighth graders? Probably not.
Despite it being a classic, I'm still struggling to figure out what the plot was. I enjoyed some of it, but on a whole, not one of the best things I've ever read.
I never had to read this book in school, but this was one of the first books I had added to my Goodreads shelves when I first set up my account, way back in mid two-thousand-diggity-eight, because, I dunno, I have delusions of wanting to read all of those "Must Read Before You Die" books that people...
The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it's bad if you say anything to them.i truly believe this is a great novel; i could sympathize with holden, as i, like him, seem to always prefer bei...
I`m slowly going through classics I haven`t read and to be honest it`s often quite boring or tiresome. It seems I have no patience for classics anymore, but I used to enjoy it. Go figures. "The Catcher in the Rye" is one of the novels I must have read when I was a teen, because then I could have enj...
Holden Caulfield is one of those characters that lives in the immagination of a lot of people. A young man unsure of his place in the world, not really trying to fit in and struggling with his feelings of being rootless and aimless. This is a snapshot of a few days in his life, the people he inter...
2 hours in and I"m trying to figure out what this book is about. This guy is essentially a socially misfit and is fighting against conformity at ever single level. I relate but the story is dysfunctional in its delivery. He is anti establishment to be antiestablishment which I find to be bizarre and...
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