Comments on: You Can’t Please Everyone – Catcher in the Rye

By: Colby

Colby — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:30:50 +0000

This book is hilarious! Don’t people have a sense of humor anymore? I can see how a weak minded individual could have some problems not recognizing crazy for crazy but what is wrong with kids today where they don’t see the cultural and generational importance of this book? Masterpiece of dark comedy. Think outside the box people. Stop watching T.V. and learn to think for yourselves.

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By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 09 May 2010 18:21:38 +0000

This garbage is beyond pathetic. Its a winey little brat complaining about his life for 200 pages. I couldn’t even stomach it past pg. 102 so I just stopped reading and wound up getting an A on the test because the whole freakin book is so predictable. R.I.P J.D. Salinger but this work of art I was forced to read made me physically sick and Holden Caulfield, I know you are just some nonexistent waste of brain cells but YOU SUCK !!!

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By: JonUk

JonUk — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:04:47 +0000

This is like “Cynical-C Classic” or “Golden Oldies”, possibly even “retro-C”. Glad to see my comments still reside somewhere in the Interwebs.

RIP Salinger, you obviously had a massive impact on American literature and its population, and no matter what peoples opinion, you will be remembered in perpetuity.

On a related note, I’m not sure we ever got Chris’ opinion of the Catcher in the Rye: How about it Chris? and when was the last time you read it?

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By: Kodie

Kodie — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:20:35 +0000

This book was not assigned to me when I was in school, but my sister had a different teacher, so I tried to get into it when she brought it home, because I thought I “should.” To be honest, I did not really read most books that were assigned while I was in school anyway. I skimmed them or read a chapter or so if it was going to be on the test. Anyway, I put “Catcher in the Rye” down before I was done with maybe 10 pages. Seriously, SHUT UP. Nobody cares.

I found out later that’s normal. You’re supposed to read this book when you’re a teen, recall it fondly, re-read it for nostalgia a few years later, and get some perspective on all that, perhaps a rude awakening after you’ve lived as an adult for a while. Missing the first step, the book totally does suck. Well, I didn’t read all of it, but I presume it goes on a lot like the beginning. I’ve heard nothing to the contrary. Perhaps some of the youths who don’t like to be forced to read “what’s good for them” in high school can see through it as well, and rightfully hate this book years before they’re supposed to.

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By: russ

russ — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:51:35 +0000

Never could make it all the way through that book. I think that book is meant to be read in your teens.

The connections the book has to assassins is freaky though. There are no coincidences.

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By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:35:40 +0000

I saw some of these reviews before when buying this book off amazon, i remember curiously going into the profile of one reviewer and finding that he gave 5 stars to every single other book he had read…. and they were all biographies.. Figures!

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By: Debbe

Debbe — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:21:09 +0000

I looked at this when I was in high school and found it disjointed and incomprehensible; maybe I should look at it again, now I’m older and (hopefully) have better perspective and more patience…

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By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:47:42 +0000

@Critic,

You don’t believe that Oswalt found a copy of Catcher in the Book Depository before shooting John Lennon? Remember Yoko trying to jump out of the back of the convertible?

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By: The Critic

The Critic — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:45:00 +0000

Itâ€™s the book that killed John Lennon. Oswald had a copy.

Historical FAIL.

I could see this starring Freddie Prinze Jr. I will shoot Fredde Prinze Jr. first.

Finally, from the first comment:

I even read through Mein Kampf without any objection Please return your humanity on the way out the door, sir.

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By: LadyLiberty

LadyLiberty — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:34:22 +0000

I adore this book.

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