General Information

Title:                  The Catcher in the Rye
Author:                 J. D. Salinger
Copyright:              1951
Abridged:               No

Original Media Information

Media:                  Cassettes
Source:                 Warez Forum
Condition:              Good

File Information

Number of MP3s:         5
Total Duration:         7:02:15
Total MP3 Size:         96.68
Parity Archive:         Yes
Encoded At:             CBR 32 kbit/s 22050 Hz Mono
ID3 Tags:               Set, v1.1, v2.3

Book Description

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.

(I really enjoyed reading this book when I was at high school. I hope
someone else out their like it too.)