The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger - Paperback

Good quality, fast delivery, but I haven’t read it yet.

Bought for my 14 year old grandson James. Every teenager should read it.

excellent copy brand new

Letter are to small to read

love this book a lot

The book is small and the quality of the cover is poor.

Cover was folded.

Your average classic book. very interesting and intellectual. the use of vocabulary is not too wide, so i recommend it for newly English learners. Its overall storyline is very intriguing and i enjoyed reading it.

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.