The Catcher in the Rye

My 13 year old son love reading this. The first book he actually enjoyed reading. So happy.

Good book. A classic one at that! Definitely a must read...

The catcher in the rye is the first and last novel of J.D Salinger, originally published in 1951. The story is about a 16 year old teenager, Holden Caulfield, who gets expelled from his school Pencey and not wanting to go home, he stays outside and wanders along, trying to fit in the adult world. But through his endeavors, he realizes the hypocrisy of it and ends up being exhausted and emotionally unstable. The story details his life in two days and in these 2 days, we come to meet a lot of characters with whom Caulfield has to deal with. Though he mixes up well with everyone, he finds it difficult to make friends and like anyone from his heart. Everything and everyone is phony, according to him and amidst this 'phoniness', he finds himself lost and depressed. One thing to note, he didn't get depressed 'After' being exposed to the real world, rather he has been depressed since his brother Allie died and over the years, he started to question his existence. I really liked the way teenage angst is shown through a language, very raw and informal. The interior monologues of Holden, are described to well, it felt so real and like living the story, feeling the pain and the angst of him. I also liked the character of his sister Phoebe who is a little kid of 10 year old and is more mature than Holden himself is. She understands him well and listens to his problems. Holden talks more when she is with him and it was her who played a major role in bringing back the lost self of Holden. (to some extent?) This book has some major themes including the alienation, fragmentation, lost innocence and hypocrisy of post modern times that Salinger has beautifully captured. Highly, recommended💓 "That's the whole trouble. You can't even find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking, somebody will sneak up and write "f*ck you' right under your nose."

It's pretty. But the book came with a few marks on the edges, and the font is too small for this version.

The story felt real — confused, lonely, and trying to make sense of a world that didn’t feel right. The Catcher in the Rye hits deep if you’ve ever felt a little lost growing up.

I absolutely get it why this book is a best-selling classic: This book is very honest and portrays teenagers really well. All of the teenagers mood swings, thoughts, behaviours etc. are aptly captured by the author. The main character of this book is sometimes annoying, sometimes philosophical, sometimes unreasonable, sometimes funny, always cursing and mostly sarcastic. If that doesn't define teenagers, then I don't know what does. You will also come across some lines in the book which will make you think- 'Oh, that is so me!' And 'Wow, that's deep.' And what I love the MOST about this book is its ending. Most young-adult novels end with childish or immature teenagers coming across some sort of an epiphany or a wise advice which just instantly turns them into THE most mature person in the world-Just one smart line from someone and you turn into Socrates or Mahatma Gandhi. But this book shows that even after getting all the wisest advice and guidance from others, the central character is still the flawed teenage boy he was before. Change doesn't occur instantly, especially if you're trying to change what others think is wrong about you. I liked that. Highly recommended.

This book is simply grand, in my opinion. The author has beautifully, skillfully portrayed the mental picture of a teenager, a habitual school dropout. The story occupies a period of roughly two days (less).It is told through the mouth of the protagonist himself.The author has employed the appropriate kind of slang and verbal nuances that teenagers are addicted to, and thereby has created an memorable character.The book is not a thriller,nor an action-story; so one has to read it slowly, savoring it page by page.The teenager is mentally disturbed, unadjusted to society, filled with depression, self-doubt, compulsive behavior, aimlessness and so on. It is terrible to go on reading the pages describing how he goes on wandering from place to place. But the saving grace is that he is really intelligent and sensitive at heart. When everything seems dark and absolutely hopeless to him, suddenly, the interaction with his kid sister transforms him. The scene is very touching. The reader may start with a feeling of aversion on reading the initial chapters. But as the story proceeds he will empathize with the teenager in the end. Finally one is sure to exhale a sigh of relief when the boy meets his kid sister and gets changed. This is a really great book with a unique style.

I received the book in a very good condition the print and the cover are all fine 🖤 Thanks Amazon for your great service oh yeah and i got this package 4 days earlier.

読む人の年齢や感性で多様に評価される本だと思います。 青春時代の危なっかしい時代を思い出して赤面する人、少年の鋭い感性に現在の自分を投影し共感する人、厭世観と何かを追い求め見出そうとするエネルギーの矛盾を抱え放浪するこの少年に自分を投影する人、こうした多面的色彩を持つこの小説が長く人々を魅了しているように思います。 私の単細胞頭脳では評価の難しい小説でした。 ちょっと読んでも、しばらく読み進んでも小説の意味するところがよく理解出来ず、何でこの本がこんなに有名なんだろう、と思っていました。 最後の感動的な結末でやっと全体像が茫洋と把握できたような気がします。 読んで良かったと思います。 英語はそんなに難しくないですが（多分）昔の若者言葉がそこそこ使われているみたいです。 博物館とかセントラルパークなどニューヨークの雰囲気も味わえます。

It's as advertised. I have also attached pictures of how the book looks without the cover for those interested.

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I first read “The Catcher in the Rye” some time in either 1964 or more likely early 1965. That is over 54 years ago now. There are some similarities between my 17-year-old self then and the 16 year old Holden Caulfield. Both of us were naïve and having trouble transitioning into adulthood. The frustration of not understanding what was happening to us resulted in the same sort of anger within me as it did in Caulfield. He directed his anger outward and blamed the world. I took my anger inward and blamed myself. I entered university only a few months after having read the novel. The main thing that I recall about that reading of the novel is being given a lift by a philosophy professor who was curious as to how someone who was so young (I was 17 but looked more like 12) was getting along in university. A philosophy course was mandatory in first year. There were four choices - Philosophy 100 to Philosophy 103. I chose Philosophy 100 because it was first on the list. I was so naïve that I didn’t understand that the 100 course was designed as the first course for those majoring in the subject. The others were much easier and intended for everybody else. I remember the professor who picked me up asking me about the course. I answered him truly that I did like it. However, I do remember in the theory of knowledge of having a significant amount of difficulty understanding the difference between a correspondence theory of the truth and a coherence theory. I was young and very naive like Holden. For me then, reality was reality and there was one sort of truth. That there could be many types of truth was something that I had just not encountered as such. Holden faced the same sort of difficulty. He had difficulty understanding the changes going on around him. His reaction to this is anger and to run away from the world. He refuses to confront his troubles and acts out by refusing his work in school. He runs away from school and his parents and hides out in New York. He has escape fantasies of setting up a new life in the west. Like Holden, I found myself in a world that required emotional and intellectual skills that I just not grown into. The professor asked me about what I had been reading. I told him about Holden and his talk about 'phonies.' I had much to learn about the world. The novel is presented in the voice of an adolescent. Holden’s reaction of anger and escape are not untypical. However, this reaction is not limited to adolescents and the novel’s themes are not limited to them. This reaction of anger and denial is common when people are confronted with situations which challenge their preconceptions. There are many truths in the world and the truths that one finds thought life change with forces that lie both within us and without us. The novel is an examination of this for me. Reading it again now at 71 is something quite different from what I recall of reading it at 17. It does make me realize the naivete of how I understood the world then. I realize now how much I have learned from others over those 54 years of my life. I remember being puzzled by people talking about social theories of knowledge and of seeking out books on philosophy which could help me understand just what they meant. I recall how they helped my understand that I could not understand the difference between correspondence and coherence theories not because I did not understand the answer but because I did not know what the problem was. Life and the knowledge of others did teach me humility. I might have called people ‘phonies’ back then but I wouldn’t now. I would like to meet that philosophy professor again and talk to him about ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ again.. Now that I’m not that Holden Caulfield any more but a different one who is willing to listen and try to learn. It took me about 3 days to read the novel this time but maybe one could say that I have been reading it for the last 54 years.

The book is extremely boring.