false <![CDATA[The Catcher in the Rye]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165517671m/5107.jpg 5107 108 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. 3036731 book 1945 The Catcher in the Rye total:230899|5:77950|4:74682|3:49390|2:18697|1:10182| 230899 884216 281845 10753 2 79 false false Tue Mar 25 22:57:38 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 25 23:02:53 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 68 false false Wed Dec 26 13:54:11 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 27 15:13:10 -0800 2007 Seventeen Magazine, and back then, Seventeen Magazine ran brainy features about books and poetry. Ther...more...]]> 5 39 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu May 08 11:50:36 -0700 2008 Thu May 08 11:52:05 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 32 false false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Jun 19 20:10:55 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 19 20:15:37 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 30 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 18 18:05:54 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 31 18:14:33 -0700 2008
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is what I thought about “The Catcher In the Rye”, and my reasons for liking it or disliking it, and possibly even how I felt about ...more...]]> 4 26 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 21 06:35:51 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 21 07:12:46 -0700 2008
The CCLaP 100: In which I read a hundred so-called "classics" for the first time...more...]]> 5 18 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Jan 05 10:33:12 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 05 11:24:08 -0800 2008
I had been somewhat hesitant to read "The Catcher in the Rye" after snoozing through Salinger's "Nine Stories," but I'm glad I finally came around. This book is a work of genius.

The book is a "coming of age" tale, but it certainly transcen...more...]]> 1 21 false false Sat Aug 04 18:45:03 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 04 18:50:24 -0700 2007
In my opinion, Holden is the worst character in the Eng...more...]]> 2 12 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 29 13:15:30 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 29 13:46:29 -0800 2007 Mrs. Ebarvia
World Literature Honors
11-19-07

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Those who see themselves (either as they were or, God help them, as they are) in Holden see a misunderstood warrior-poet, fighting the good fight against a hypocritical and unf...more...]]> 5 8 false false Fri Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 19:39:03 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 21:25:49 -0700 2009
*Naga berlagak ala Holden*

Awalnya aku sempet kesal dengan buku yang begini-gini. Liat saja isinya, kalau di ucapkan tidak enak didengar penuh kata kasar dan sebagainya. Bikin puyeng. Kau tau maksudku? Kalau kalian tidak niat baca atau sebagainya lebih baik buku seperti ini di...more...]]> 3 6 false false Wed Oct 03 12:15:34 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 17 20:48:07 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 5 false false Thu Sep 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 31 21:19:56 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 24 21:53:18 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 5 false false Tue Mar 18 15:53:01 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 25 15:06:35 -0700 2008 Publisher: Little,Brown Company,United States and
Cost: $11.19
ISBN 0-316-76953-3

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I wish I'd never heard David say he is Holden Caulfield, though. The dude self-proclaims that he's a 'good liar' and I can't handle knowing that about David...

6/4: I forgot what chapter I'm on. Which sucks because I wasn't using ...more...]]> 1 5 false false Fri Feb 01 21:45:24 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 04 22:47:17 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 6 false false Mon Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Sat Mar 03 10:47:09 -0800 2007 Sat Mar 03 11:14:29 -0800 2007 One may think that I was influenced by that average Mel Gibson movie Conspiracy Theory and "the assassin of Kennedy had a copy of Catc...more...]]> 5 7 false false Sat Apr 07 10:35:25 -0700 2007 Sat Apr 07 10:57:08 -0700 2007 ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=5107