The Catcher in the Rye in Pick-a-Shelf

Aug 23, 2008 Luann rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult, classics, fiction, 2009

THIS is one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century? Why? I guess I missed something. Holden Caulfield is just an unpleasant character, and nothing much ever happens in the book. I found it a chore to get through until right towards the end. I liked Holden's little sister and how much he cared for her.

I did find one quote I liked: "What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and yo ...more

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Jan 13, 2017 Rachel N. rated it liked it

Shelves: 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, new-york-city, coming-of-age, chutes-and-ladder-challenge, read-in-2017, classic, depression, banned-book

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 ...more

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Mar 04, 2016 Lauren⁷ 💜 rated it did not like it

I had heard that this was an amazing, can't miss, gotta read book. So i checked it out of the library. And i tried to like it, i really did. But all the main character does is brood and swear. That's it. I tried to slog my way through this. This was completely boring, and i am so glad i did not buy it and waste my money. I only got about 40 pages into it, and the only thing that kept me from throwing this across the room was the fact that it was a library book and therefore not mine. ...more

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Mar 04, 2009 Susan rated it did not like it

Shelves: 1001-books-to-read, 2009, 2009-spring-challenge

Gave me a absolute headache. Maybe I would have appreciated this book more as a teen, but as a mom of teens, I just wanted to smack him. Sorry to offend anyone who enjoyed it.

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Nov 04, 2011 Lorna rated it it was amazing

Shelves: classics

Loved this book in college when I was about 20 so I wanted to read it again. At first I wasn't sure I was going to like it this time, but I got more into it as I went along. Insightful, amusing & sad at the same time. ...more

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