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Rent The Catcher in the Rye
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Format: Mass Market Paperback, Paperback
Publisher: Warner Books Inc
Published: Jan 1991
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Retail Price: $9.99
Synopsis
Repetitive, indecent, often very funny, it is wonderfully sustained by the author, who achieves all those ancient effects to be got from a hero who is in some ways inferior, and in some ways superior, to the reader....Why, then, with all this to admire, do I find something phoney in the book itself?...[T]he adult view of adolescence, insinuated by skilful faking, is agreeable to predictable public taste....[It] is what the consumer needs....The boy's attitudes to religion, authority, art, sex and so on are what smart people would like other people to have, but cannot have themselves, because of their superior understanding.
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Reviews
I think this book is so famous because it was banned for all the bad language and people want to read things that someone has told them not to read. I did not enjoy this book. It was pointless and quite depressing. There were very few happy moments in this kid's life. I would not recommend this book!
As i turned every page in the book i asked myself, Why is this book so famous? Its boring and the character is a negative annoying kid. There is no direction in the writing, alone a climax. I finished it and said out loud ' Are you serious?' Spare yourself. It could be on my top 10 worst books.
I wanted to respond to the previous reviewer. What makes this book a great book is the symbolism and complexity of the characters. As you read the book, you very quickly find that Holden hates phonies yet when you look deeper into his stories, you find out that he is a phony himself. Holden was not written for you to like him...that would be nearly impossible.