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The Catcher in the Rye |  | Author: J. D. Salinger
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  2933 reviews
Sales Rank: 142
Media: Paperback
Pages: 288
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 0316769177
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780316769174
ASIN: 0316769177
Publication Date: January 30, 2001
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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 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 today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins,
"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.
Product Description
Ever since it was first published in 1951, this novel has been the coming-of-age story against which all others are judged. Read and cherished by generations, the story of Holden Caulfield is truly one of America's literary treasures.
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 The catcher in the rye March 13, 2010
Pablo A. Figueroa (Puerto Rico, USA)
The challenges and fortunes that adolescents must confront along with immaturity and inexperience make growing up an uphill battle. However, many of us go through similar events that mold our ego with which we either learn and apply or just lower our guard and call it quits.
 Horrible waste of time March 13, 2010
Gallantfurr (Memphis)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This supposed classic was a boy ranting at the world over a few days span. It was nothing more than a teenage boy talking crap to everyone and saying he didn't care about anything that happened to him. A lot of GD's and Christsakes. It was the worst 5 or 6 hours I ever spent. I won't be reading anything that may be published after he died, not based on this book.
The Catcher in the Rye March 10, 2010
Francine Scism (NASHVILLE, NC, US)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The subject matter of the book was disappointing. The writing was excellent but I did not enjoy it because of the subject matter. I should have read it in high school but waited too long and I seriously wanted to give that kid in the book a kick in the butt!
WHAT A PIECE OF CRAP March 10, 2010
William Fulkerson
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
We were required to read this drek in high school. It made me sick then, and it makes me sick now, 45 years later, that so many morons could act like lemmings in calling this tripe a masterpiece. If it is a coming of age story, it is about humanity itself coming to an age of self-loathing and self-pity; constantly the victim. Never responsible for their own shortcomings in failure to appreciate the privelege of existance. As I said; a first class moping piece of crap. Teachers should be fired for even suggesting an adolescent child or teen read it.
A True Classic March 7, 2010
Geoff Hasler (Santa Barbara, CA)
A Genuine, True Classic. Once you read it again, you realize what a profound effect it had on American literature at the time. What a tragedy that Salinger went into seclusion and deprived the world (except his family) of his talent. Hopefully a family member will publish his work soon. The Catcher in the Rye
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