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| The Catcher in the Rye | 
 enlarge | Author: J.d. Salinger
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £8.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  243 reviews
Sales Rank: 191
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised edition
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.6
ISBN: 014023750X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780140237504
ASIN: 014023750X
Publication Date: August 4, 1994
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 so so May 14, 2008
I can't really understand why this book is so well credited. I thought it was a pleasant read, made me giggle on a couple of occasions but nothing special.
 Good enough to make you puke April 9, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
What a goddamn book. I must have read it about one thousand times at least. It really separates the wheat from the chaf, or the phoneys and the flits from the real deal, if you know what I mean. I can't stand phoneys, you know the sort of writers who go blah blah blah isn't life hard and all, when really, all you've got to do is get on with it. Writing, nowadays, it is all moaning and whining by some phoney or another, and the publishers, well, they love all that stuff, they go crazy for it, it strikes me they wouldn't know a good book if it came and bit them on the rear end. This book though, well, it's so good, it's enough to make you want to go out and shoot a Beatle, it really is. I only hope they never make a movie of this damn thing, that would be the worst thing ever I shouldn't guess, if they did that I think I would puke up all over myself, I really would
Definitely recommended April 6, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a fantastic book, although i can see why some might not enjoy it. For me it was brill- a true classic
What the fuss is all about... April 2, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have read The Catcher in the Rye twice and I do not seem to be able to learn to love this book as most people say it deserves. I find myself unable to sympathise with the main character and I see the story as irrelevant and depressing.I keep on hoping Holden is a rarity and not an average teenager.The only character I love and the story I like the most is that of the dead brother Allie. His love for his siblings is the main character's only redeeming trait in my opinion.
 More overated than Harry Potter AND the DaVinci Code. March 28, 2008
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
Truly the worlds most blown-up book. The main protagnoist fraustrated me beyond words, and if he is meant to be someone who teenagers can relate to then I pity teenagers as he seemed selfish, spolit and ungrateful- a product of a society ignorant of the strugglings and sufferings not only in third world country's but of the poor and working classes in it's own. Reading this book at degree level I cannot like it, nor warm to it, and feel that American literature has far more to offer- Harper Lee, Toni Morrison, William Faulker, Fannie Flagg- to name a few. It's really only worth the read so you can make up your own mind about it rather than believing the hype. In short, when handed a copy of this book I was told it would change my life. It didn't.
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