The rules are simple:
*It must be either a classic or a older book
*Make sure to include a picture of the book and the synopsis
*Add the date the book was published (or year)
*It doens't have to be a book that you have read.
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Published: 1951
"Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield had 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 a prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned books list. 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 that 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 been two hermorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them. "His constant wry observations about what he encoutners, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutally exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage expeirence of alienation."
Synopsis from http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/169183.The_Catcher_in_the_Rye
Published: 1951
"Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield had 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 a prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned books list. 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 that 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 been two hermorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them. "His constant wry observations about what he encoutners, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutally exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage expeirence of alienation."
Synopsis from http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/169183.The_Catcher_in_the_Rye
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