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truly potrays confused, anxious, rebellious, corruptible, condescend... and many other aspects of a teen age
"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you'll start missing everybody"... these are closing lines of "The Catcher in the Rye", a wonderful novel by J. D. Salinger.

"The Catcher in the Rye" truly potrays confused, anxious, rebellious, corruptible, condescend, careless but caring, carefree but worried... and many other aspects of a teen age.

Holden Caulfield, the central character of the novel, reflects quite a few aspects of my teen days. Indeed, after reading through, you will also feel the same.

"The Catcher in the Rye" is the narration of events that Holden Caulfield went through during three days between expulsion from yet another college Pency and reaching home.

For him everyone was a "phony" and everyone was more "phony" than he imagined.

After expulsion Holden leaves the school, takes a train to New York and stay in a shady hotel for 3 days. He spends an evening dancing with three tourist girls and narrates encounter with a young prostitute "sunny"... rather funny encounter with sunny. He changes the mind as soon as she enters the room. And Holden's schuffle with Maurice, the pimp.

Holden shares his memories with his girl friends or so called... his brother Allie, DB and sister Phoebe. His dreams about job to catch the children, if they come close to the edge of cliff and becomes a "catcher in the rye". His "confused" experience with Mr Antonili, his teacher he admired most. He wakes up in the night to find Mr. Antolini patting his head and perceives as "flitty". He couldn't conclude whether his interpretation of Mr. Antolini action was correct or not.

Holden decides to move out west but somehow stay back after spending sometime with his sister, who also wants to go with him. At the close of the book, Holden decides not to tell anymore andrefers that he is sick and being treated at mental hospital....

And also, there is another character pretty much like Holden himself.. "Hunting Hat"..

"The Catcher in the Rye" is considered one of the 100 best English novels of the 20th century and it is one of the best I have read.


-- ashutosh jhureley

A brilliant book
This embodies the true meaning of "a classic". It is an amazing story about a troubled youth which is both captivating and insightful.

I didn't find it worth reading.
There are a few laughs and a few memorable quotes, but nothing really profound or amazing.

Amazing book, but BAD quality
As many people previously said, this book is a book that every living person should read it. I've have read already like 3-4 times on my mother language (Macedonian), but I always wanted to read it on its original language so I order it from here.
What blocked my impressions was that the print is really bad, the font is bold and not sharp, some parts are ligher some havier, the paper is yellow (for christ sake - what Holden would said), it is very bad paper. the Cover is very thin and light, I espected some better quality and design here.
There isn't any Author's Biography or something, some info etc, that's strange.

I had bigger expectations, I am dissapointed by the quality of this edition.

The Catcher in the Rye
I found this to be a marvelous coming of age story.The complexity of the main character Holden and how he interprets "his place in time" is wonderful.The conflicts many of us males experienced in our mid-teen years is beautifully revealed in this novel.I loved this story! ... Read more

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So a horse walks into a bar and starts discussing Descartes. Welcome to Clyde's Tale, as a bemused writer is tricked by his imaginary horse into journeying to legendary Frisco. There they become obsessed by love, death and a woman with black holes instead of eyes. A detective story, a love story, a fable; Clyde's Tale is a rambunctious stew of life, literature, licentiousness and many other words beginning with 'L'. A literary mystery in all senses of the word, Clyde's Tale was described by Joe Konrath, author of Whiskey Sour, as "Funny. Insane, but funny. You'll go far in this business. Chris Moore, Eric Garcia and Bill Fitzhugh are good examples." Clyde's Tale is undoubtedly the first time an imaginary horse, Nietzsche-quoting ruffians, the history of spats, assault with a fish, James Joyce, death by moose head, a potty-mouthed munchkin, and a famously lost manuscript have appeared in the same book, or, come to think of it, the same sentence. ... Read more

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Very strange, but very worthwhile
It took a while to get into this but by page 40, I was hooked!I particularly enjoyed how well the nameless main character and his trusty horse were portrayed. They both felt very real and very neurotic. He brings Woody Allen to mind in his obsessive-compulsive behavior and his word play.

I was constantly chuckling throughout, and as a lover of the English language, the way this story was told really appealed to me. It says a lot about human nature, attraction, and identity. Our man desperately wants to make his life more exciting, since narcissism just isn¹t working any more.

The story is essentially about finding meaning in life, and whether indulging in an imaginary life is all that bad. When our man has to give up his lover at the end, and Clyde suggests that he make up an imaginary girlfriend because she¹ll never let him down, you realize that our man is
really looney, and you pity him.

One of the really interesting aspects of this story is that it traverses and transcends so many different genres; dark comedy, romantic comedy, mystery, suspense, detective, absurd comedy.

Some of the sex scenes are a little gratuitous, particularly the five page description of one very intimate portion of a woman, but overall I loved it.

It would make a very interesting film along the lines of 'Donny Darko'.

Brilliantly bizarre
One of the funniest, strangest and most rewarding novels I have ever read.

Highly, highly, highly recommend it! ... Read more

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MinuteHelp Study Guides are designed to give you a quick refresher of the book in just minutes. The concisely written guide is complete with a plot summary, list of characters, and chapter by chapter summaries, makes the guide is an excellent companion to the book.

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The Lost Episodes of Beatie Scareli is a novel written as a touching hybrid of a bizarre script. With prose resulting in quick, readable, deftly crafted scenes. What starts off innocently told through the voice of a 12 year old girl (Beatie Scareli) is the story of how the young girl tries to make sense of her life through a nickelodeon view of the world. At the same time a woman watches the young girl's past on her television. The story soon turns and twists until everything about the girl and her family becomes darkly connected to what becomes reality and fiction in the reader's mind. ... Read more

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I don't know what I was thinking when I bought this....
Something about this book appealed to me, and I think it must be the cover picture.It is very interesting to look at and the online available chapters seemed interesting enough, but the "story" itself was lacking.This is sort of a modern day "Go Ask Alice", but told poorly.There were so many technical errors that even those who miss mistakes would stumble over.The way it was written, like a screenplay, was also done very poorly.The quotation marks were all over the place as were the commas.Did no one proof read this?Let alone edit!

But ah, moving past the technical issues, the story itself wasn't much of one.It's about a girl, Beatie, and her day to day life as her family and world falls apart around here.There was much potential here but this book just didn't deliver.Parts were very disturbing, and yes a lot was told in few words, but at the end of the day we don't know what happens to poor, young Beatie or her crazy family.I'd recommend Go Ask Alice instead.

A Hauntingly Disturbing Tale - Surrealism at its best

Ginnetta Correli's, `The Lost Episodes of Beatie Scareli' is a uniquely crafted tale of a young girl living in a highly dysfunctional family, traveling through life's extremes. We follow 12-year-old, Beatie Scareli as she faces many of today's most horrific situations, abuse, undiagnosed mental illness, alcoholism as she attempts to unravel and solve her dire circumstances. The author has masterfully created the story as a television script, vividly narrated by young Beatie, introducing a unique perspective which immediately draws the reader in to the many strange happenings of her life. I highly recommend, `The Lost Episodes of Beatie Scareli' as a must read book. Absolutely brilliant!

I wish all books were like this.
My heart aches for Beatie Scareli. There is so much sadness within and beneath and between every minimal description and absurdly matter of fact line of dialogue. I constantly look for stories that will instantly absorb me the way Ginetta Correli's "The Lost Episodes of Beatie Scareli" has. I feel every word, see every scene and smell every description. I have so much respect for writers who can create so much with so little. There seems to be magic in the placement of the words, in the structure of the sentences, in the breaks, in the pauses and in the blankness. I admire everything this book is and everything this book purposely isn't. It takes real perception and experience to tell a story that is so deceptively naive. It's wonderful and I highly recommend it

Amazing and Disturbing
Firstly, let me say that this is a book not to be missed. All readers take note that "Lost Episodes" is a novel that is not only eminently readable but has depth and significance. The writer's style is straightforward and unselfconscious and is therefore the perfect vehicle for the adolescent narrator. Not to demean the work in any way but to point out that the style is commensurate with the tale that is told.
Others have provided a synopsis of the story.Just let me say that if you cannot identify with this girl, Beatie Scareli, as you read through her narrative, you are one cold fish. Not to say that all of us have lived through the tribulations that Beatie experienced in her "coming of age," but I think we all can empathize.These are very real and terrible matters that no child should have to suffer.
Beatie is a resourceful girl but circumstances are stacked against her. The reader wants Beatie's solutions to work in her favor but... actions, as we know, have consequences and they are not always good consequences.
What is uplifting in this work is that Beatie does not lose hope that her life will get better and she does not rail against the society that never seems to acknowledge her pain or help to assuage it.We may recognize that society has let Beatie down but it is our call; it is not thrown in our faces.
Very few books imprint themselves on my consciousness so that the details are vivid for years after I have finished reading and returned the book to my bookshelf.I know that this is one of the books that I will never forget.I suspect this will be true for many readers.
Thanks to Ginnetta Correli for bring this intimate and amazing story to us.

A fresh story that will please plenty of readers
There's more than one way to tell a story."The Lost Episodes of Beatie Scareli" is a novel told in the fashion of a television script. A parody of Nickelodeon-style sitcom, the style begins to warp into a twisted tale sure to delight readers. Entertaining and fast moving, "The Lost Episodes of Beatie Scareli" is a fresh story that will please plenty of readers.
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When a brand new Emily Dickinson poem turns up at Sotheby's, it seems that history is about to be made. But a phone call from Salt Lake suggests that this literary masterpiece may not be quite what it seems. As rumors of chandelier bids, forgery and even murder begin to surface, critically acclaimed author, Simon Worrall, embarks on an investigative journey to discover the truth. The trail leads from the sleek headquarters of Sotheby's, New York to New England, Las Vegas and, eventually, to a jail cell in Utah where master forger and double murderer, Mark Hofmann, is serving a lifetime sentence. Out of this thrilling tale of intrigue and deception, Worrall went on to write his critically acclaimed book, The Poet and The Murderer, which is currently being turned into a motion picture. ... Read more

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Intelligent reading
Salinger and Gross provide an insider's account of the political and managerial pressures on a foreign correspondent. The tension felt by a reporting soloist is wrapped in a very entertaining spy story. The spy story is framework for two famous and seasoned writers (Gross and Salinger) to bring readers an education of what it is like for a correspondent to work on an important international story and to endure the conspiracies of governments and companies to manipulate the ultimate telling of the story. There is little to quibble with in this book if you read it for real story. The writing style is obviously by authors of the highest intelligence.

Not enough to hold interest
There was little to hold my interest in the book, until the end and even then it was easy to put down.I felt the character was forced and the romance was unrealistic.
I wouldn't recommend this if you like action packed books or a true suspense novel. ... Read more