Miya reviewed The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Like Hemingway but much more modern.
5 stars
This book resonated much too well with me.
mass market paperback, 214 pages
English language
Published Feb. 27, 1981 by Bantam Books.
The Catcher in the Rye
3 stars
(37 reviews)
Story of Holden Caufield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism. 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.
pinkpusheen reviewed The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Review of 'The Catcher in the Rye' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
I enjoyed the writing style of this book and found it mildly humourous and relatable. I fully annotated the copy I was reading and overall I have the most tags for funny, relatable, and quote. I would recommend everyone read it once but it is not on my favorite list.
mi reviewed The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Review of 'The Catcher in the Rye' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
The question about giving out your opinion about The Catcher In The Rye is that you feel like everything that you have to say has already been said by everyone else.
But the truth is that human experience (like opinions) are most of the times different inspite of similar. And that's what I believe is the biggest trumph of this book.
I must confess: I was hatting it in the first pages. It was looking like a pointless and superficial narration. I won't say it isn't. But I continued and started to believe there was more to it. Holden's complex personality reflecting the fight he was enduring with his growth and the contradictions he was becoming aware of generated not only some empathy with me as some feeling of needing to observe him. Because the representation of this human experience was quite well done in a perspetive of one person …
The question about giving out your opinion about The Catcher In The Rye is that you feel like everything that you have to say has already been said by everyone else.
But the truth is that human experience (like opinions) are most of the times different inspite of similar. And that's what I believe is the biggest trumph of this book.
I must confess: I was hatting it in the first pages. It was looking like a pointless and superficial narration. I won't say it isn't. But I continued and started to believe there was more to it. Holden's complex personality reflecting the fight he was enduring with his growth and the contradictions he was becoming aware of generated not only some empathy with me as some feeling of needing to observe him. Because the representation of this human experience was quite well done in a perspetive of one person only and what she thinks. It kept me almost wanting to talk to Holden and ask him a few questions. Or not... Because he was dealing with the world and everyone that passed by this would understand. Its not that I am moved. I am delighted with the painting of a personality through his eyes. And I am other eyes standing outside and judjing or being benevolent. I almost passively watch this story.
I think that what made me feel 'sort of depressed' about it in the end was the ending itself. I don't know what to feel abou it. Was it to logical, inevitable, bad, ok, realist, far-fetched,...? I can't decide. But it didn't felt right.
Subjects
- Caulfield, Holden (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
- Runaway teenagers -- Fiction.
- Teenage boys -- Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.