Mai tian bu shou

The catcher in the rye Mi / xiao shuo = -- Addiction -- 8

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Mai tian bu shou (Chinese language, 2007, Mai tian chu ban, Cheng bang wen hua shi ye gu fen you xian gong si)

284 pages

Chinese language

Published Nov. 19, 2007 by Mai tian chu ban, Cheng bang wen hua shi ye gu fen you xian gong si.

ISBN:
9789861732091

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3 stars (2 reviews)

Story of Holden Caufield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism. Holden, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story of what he did and suffered there.

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The question about giving out your opinion about The Catcher In The Rye is that you feel like everything that you have to say has already been said by everyone else.
But the truth is that human experience (like opinions) are most of the times different inspite of similar. And that's what I believe is the biggest trumph of this book.
I must confess: I was hatting it in the first pages. It was looking like a pointless and superficial narration. I won't say it isn't. But I continued and started to believe there was more to it. Holden's complex personality reflecting the fight he was enduring with his growth and the contradictions he was becoming aware of generated not only some empathy with me as some feeling of needing to observe him. Because the representation of this human experience was quite well done in a perspetive of one person …

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Subjects

  • Caulfield, Holden (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
  • Runaway teenagers -- Fiction.
  • New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.