| Authors: |
J.D. Salinger
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Books |
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English |
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| Year: |
1991 |
| ISBN: |
0316769487 9780316769488 |
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4 out of 5: They liked it |
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..you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up whenever you felt like it by zoet |
| I think this is one of those books they make you read in high school, so I’m a bit late but better late than never. ---The main character, Holden, has just been kicked out of yet another school. He can’t be bothered studying because he thinks it’s all bull and that everyone in that school, in all schools, in the whole world is a phoney. It kills me, it really does. Holden leaves school and just kind of wanders about, too scared to go home and face his parents, feeling sorry for himself and the state of the world. --- I didn’t have as many (any) thoughts when I was 16, Holden is interesting, he’s clever enough to recognize some things but not mature enough to see when he’s acting like the phonies he so despises. He has a really good relationship with his younger sister and there is a very nice moment when he tries to explain a vague convoluted image of all that he desires to her that neither can understand. If I was in high school I could write a good essay on it! |
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I was enthralled- it has that timeless quality which is the hallmark of greatness by Andrew Fitch |
| I was enthralled- it has that timeless quality which is the hallmark of greatness. Holden's voice, with all its easy communication, conveys so brilliantly the cliff-edge experience of teenage frustration and rage against all phoneys. This has to be one of the seminal catalysts that produced the beat generation and the teenage revolution of the 60s.
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