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Author:
J. D. Salinger
By Penguin
 Laughing out loud funny, 2009-06-01
"Raise High..." is the book which I have recommended to book-loving acquaintances over the years more than any other. My urge is to share with them the exquisite writing of the scene in the wedding car. It is such a marvellous painting of the awkwardness of the experience for Buddy, I first read it in my late teens and laughed so hard and long that I have never forgotten the joy of the discovery in all the intervening years. As with much of Salinger's writing it is difficult to believe that he is not describing real events, my mind's eye has a startlingly vivid image of the bride's father's uncle which will remain with me for ever.
At just a little over 50 pages you'll read it in an hour or so and I hope remember it like I do.
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J.D. Salinger
By William Heinemann Ltd
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"Don't you know that goddam secret yet?" Zooey Glass, 2009-11-18
These two stories are perfectly crafted and a joy to read. I won't say much here, no spoilers. I will just say I finished the book feeling the exact same way as Franny.
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J.D. Salinger
By Little, Brown and Company
"Thanks Buddy!", 2010-01-30
Farewell J.D. The superficial obituaries talk mostly of your "Catcher In The Rye", but the true devotees know that more than just bibles of "Preppy" angst, Salinger's works operate on a higher plane. His Seymour for instance is like Siegfried, a spiritual seeker amongst a world of cold indifference. Salinger rejected the commercial world of critics and intellectuals most probably because he was bored of the simplistic classifications they were so keen to bind him to. But for me, a humble reader, Salinger is about as pure a literary voice as has ever set sail in world literature. I love all his books, with a particular fondness for "Raise The Roofbeams High, Carpenters" and "Franny & Zooey" but "Catcher" is no less great than either of those two. But if you want to start somewhere different with Jerome, you could consider "9 Stories". Salinger's 9 stories is literary Jazz. Each story is a ballad told in different keys, both major and minor. Each story has a "hook" that haunts you like a song. You can read through the entire collection in one sitting, but you'll forever be returning to each of the stories individually time immemorial.
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J. D. Salinger
By Penguin
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 Hidden depth?, 2010-07-20
I have just finished reading the book and I can see why some of the other reviewers love it and others hate it. At first it seems a little superficial, repetitive and with a plot as thin as a piece of rice paper. However, if you can put that to one side as well as the brassy repetitive style and dig deeper, I do think this novel holds some nuggets of gold.
That cynical youth Holden seeing all others around him as 'phoney' is really a reflection on himself. He sees himself as having no depth and transfers this to those around him - they are but a mirror to his inner self. Even worse, he fears becoming like them, using success, money, status, position to paper over the cracks. In truth I think there is a little of Holden in all of us. Once cynical young people now moulded into the exact opposite of what said we would be. I think that the essence of the book can be summed up with one of my favourite quotes (one Salinger attributes to a Wilhelm Stekel - who was a psychoanalyst and follower of Freud);
"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."
This sums up Holden and maybe more of us than we would care to admit.I recommend reading this book and persevering with it. I am sure, that like me, that you will find a little nugget in there that will make it worthwhile.
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J.D. Salinger
By Penguin Books Ltd
JD's best, 2003-10-17
This book is amazing... it covers such a range of concepts, and people. The charactors in each of the stories are so intense. Definately worth while reading, for anyone.
Author:
J.D. Salinger
By Penguin Books Ltd
"Don't you know that goddam secret yet?" Zooey Glass, 2009-11-18
These two stories are perfectly crafted and a joy to read. I won't say much here, no spoilers. I will just say I finished the book feeling the exact same way as Franny.
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Author:
J.D. Salinger
By Penguin Books Ltd
Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins,
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them." His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation.
Hidden depth?, 2010-07-20
I have just finished reading the book and I can see why some of the other reviewers love it and others hate it. At first it seems a little superficial, repetitive and with a plot as thin as a piece of rice paper. However, if you can put that to one side as well as the brassy repetitive style and dig deeper, I do think this novel holds some nuggets of gold.
That cynical youth Holden seeing all others around him as 'phoney' is really a reflection on himself. He sees himself as having no depth and transfers this to those around him - they are but a mirror to his inner self. Even worse, he fears becoming like them, using success, money, status, position to paper over the cracks. In truth I think there is a little of Holden in all of us. Once cynical young people now moulded into the exact opposite of what said we would be. I think that the essence of the book can be summed up with one of my favourite quotes (one Salinger attributes to a Wilhelm Stekel - who was a psychoanalyst and follower of Freud);
"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."
This sums up Holden and maybe more of us than we would care to admit.I recommend reading this book and persevering with it. I am sure, that like me, that you will find a little nugget in there that will make it worthwhile.
Author:
J.D. Salinger
By Little, Brown and Company
Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins,
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them." His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation.
Hidden depth?, 2010-07-20
I have just finished reading the book and I can see why some of the other reviewers love it and others hate it. At first it seems a little superficial, repetitive and with a plot as thin as a piece of rice paper. However, if you can put that to one side as well as the brassy repetitive style and dig deeper, I do think this novel holds some nuggets of gold.
That cynical youth Holden seeing all others around him as 'phoney' is really a reflection on himself. He sees himself as having no depth and transfers this to those around him - they are but a mirror to his inner self. Even worse, he fears becoming like them, using success, money, status, position to paper over the cracks. In truth I think there is a little of Holden in all of us. Once cynical young people now moulded into the exact opposite of what said we would be. I think that the essence of the book can be summed up with one of my favourite quotes (one Salinger attributes to a Wilhelm Stekel - who was a psychoanalyst and follower of Freud);
"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."
This sums up Holden and maybe more of us than we would care to admit.I recommend reading this book and persevering with it. I am sure, that like me, that you will find a little nugget in there that will make it worthwhile.
Author:
J.D. Salinger
By Little, Brown and Company
Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins,
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them." His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation.
Hidden depth?, 2010-07-20
I have just finished reading the book and I can see why some of the other reviewers love it and others hate it. At first it seems a little superficial, repetitive and with a plot as thin as a piece of rice paper. However, if you can put that to one side as well as the brassy repetitive style and dig deeper, I do think this novel holds some nuggets of gold.
That cynical youth Holden seeing all others around him as 'phoney' is really a reflection on himself. He sees himself as having no depth and transfers this to those around him - they are but a mirror to his inner self. Even worse, he fears becoming like them, using success, money, status, position to paper over the cracks. In truth I think there is a little of Holden in all of us. Once cynical young people now moulded into the exact opposite of what said we would be. I think that the essence of the book can be summed up with one of my favourite quotes (one Salinger attributes to a Wilhelm Stekel - who was a psychoanalyst and follower of Freud);
"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."
This sums up Holden and maybe more of us than we would care to admit.I recommend reading this book and persevering with it. I am sure, that like me, that you will find a little nugget in there that will make it worthwhile.
List Price: £8.99
Our Price: £7.99
Author:
J.D. Salinger
By Penguin
JD's best, 2003-10-17
This book is amazing... it covers such a range of concepts, and people. The charactors in each of the stories are so intense. Definately worth while reading, for anyone.
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