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Tânia
Jul 19, 2011 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: biblioteca
O livro relata uns dias na vida do adolescente Holden Cauldfield que mais uma vez foi expulso de um colégio, devido aos seus maus resultados escolares e que escolheu regressar mais cedo a Nova Iorque antes de enfrentar a reacção dos pais a mais uma expulsão. O livro transmite a impulsividade de pensamentos de um adolescente revoltado e com uma crise existencial, com um tom de oralidade, nomeadamente através da repetição de certas expressões e utilização do calão, transmitindo assim os seus pensa ...more
Micah
Nov 23, 2010 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: fiction
I read this, I think when I was sixteen or seventeen; I had heard about it as a story of a teenager acting like a teenager and was curious as to how literature framed that. I was severely disappointed. I found Holden annoying, I didn't understand any of his anger or why he felt entitled to whine about the things that he did. Up until that point, indeed, up until I was in my early 20's, I hadn't really experienced anger, at least, not in the way that it's portrayed in books and movies. Sure, I ha ...more
S
Jan 15, 2011 rated it it was amazing
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Having never been made to read this book, I can't really tell you why I wanted to read it all of a sudden, but I'm so glad it crossed my reading path! This was really one of the best books I've read for multiple reasons. 1. Holden was so likeable as a character that by the end of the book, he just about broke my heart being so deeply sad. 2. The movement of the novel was fast-paced, so I had no trouble picking the story back up again after a short pause. The real trouble was putting it down. And ...more
Malia
Nov 18, 2010 rated it it was ok
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Nov 28, 2010 marked it as to-read
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Jan 02, 2011 marked it as to-read
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Jan 05, 2011 marked it as to-read
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Feb 25, 2011 rated it it was amazing
Sandra Heinzman
May 04, 2011 rated it it was amazing
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Jelena
May 14, 2011 marked it as to-read
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Aug 26, 2011 marked it as to-read