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The Catcher in the Rye
by

J.D. Salinger

Gabriela's review

Feb 16, 2016

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bookshelves: borrowed, classics

This read was... unusual (?) I enjoyed it more than I should have though, considering that our main character Holden is a living pain in the ass and I tend to hate reading this type of characters.

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It was funny, to read such a negative perspective of the world/life from a teenager because, let's face it, we all had at least one moment of anger and hate towards everything when we were teenagers, (not as much as Holden though! He is, as he says, a madman).

Also! The taxi scene. SO DAMN FUNNY.

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“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
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“Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.”
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