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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
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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
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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
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