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Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780316769488 ISBN: 0316769487 Label: Little, Brown and Company Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: May 01, 1991 Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Studio: Little, Brown and Company Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins, "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them." His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation. Product Description: Holden, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story of what he did and suffered there. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Horrible Book, Annoying CharacterI don't see how so many people rated this book so highly. I spent precious time reading this, that I'll never get back. If you want to waste your time reading about some stupid, snotty kid's boring experience in New York, then go ahead, read it. This book is not a classic and all copies should be burned out of existence, they really should. Rating:  - Will stick with youThis is the kind of book that people of all ages remember their whole lives. It's indescribable how the story can sweep you off into Holden's life, the angst he feels, and the time in which he lived. Truly a great work that is worth reading if you have not and worth reading again if you have. Rating:  - Much OverratedAt the risk of offending all the fans--this book should not have been banned because of the cursing or the sexual references. It should have been banned because it is uninteresting and tortuous to read. The sentences and the dialogue are so annoying they make me want to punch Holden Caulfield myself. I understand that was what the author was going for, but it doesn't make it any more palatable. I also understand that the novel was groundbreaking in its time. Regardless, I lost interest about ... Read More Rating:  - This is an American classic?????????????Wow! Kind of fun to read, but a classic? I don't think so. Rating: - Best Banned Books Required Reading ListI'm teaching this book to my 10th graders, after making an inquest and asking all of my friends and acquaintances what book really changed their lives in high school. I was a bit squeamish because it has curse words galore, and because some of the subject matter may be deemed inappropriate for polite conversation, but the kids are really responding to Holden's cynical, alienated internal dialogue, and it's really uplifting to see them identifying with a fictional character as if he were a real person. |
