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The story of Holden Caufield's weekend in New York after he is kicked out of boarding school again. Holden spends his time randomly roaming around as far as I could tell. There really wasn't a lot of a plot, unless there is a whole lot of symbolism that just went over my head. The book to me is mainly about feeling disconnected and being depressed. For some reason I never had to read this classic book in school so I'm glad I read it now. I never really connected with Holden but I didn't dislike
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I finally read this for the first time. While there were some good pull-out quotes and ideas, I really didn't like this book -- the story or its characters -- at all. If it weren't considered a must-read classic, I probably would have abandoned it after the first couple of chapters. I had expected (read: hoped) it might get better. It didn't. By the end I was imagining good old Katniss Everdeen putting Holden (and me) out of his misery. So much for the study that says reading literary fiction im
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This is a re-read. I've been reading Salinger's work, and I have to admit that I liked it better this time around, but not as much as I enjoyed his short stories. I think the difference is this: Holden Caulfield comes across as an immature whiney spoiled brat, and only children are worthy of his attention (all adults are phony); and his short stories are more mature, his writing flows more smoothly.
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2/13/17 Picked his up from the library as "blind date with a book" based on the key descriptors: classic novel, adolescence, New York, frequently banned. I was somewhat pleasantly surprised to find it inside the wrapper because this is on my to be read list, but it never makes it to the top. This may be the incentive I needed to begin it--I just hope I can finish it because I didn't care for Franny and Zooey and one of my book-loving friends says that is the better of these two books. Still, thi
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