Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

50 reviews

inkslate's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Abandonment, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, and Addiction

Moderate: Sexual content and Self harm

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Pedophilia

melchior's review against another edition

dark funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

This 16-years-old jerk really hates phonies on 1950's New York. Boy, does he hate them. He's really bitter and all, about flunking out of school, for one. Sad too. He pent up all this frustration and anger and all. So he spends a whole book complaining about phonies and himself and everything. He really does, no kidding. It's not even very coherent most of the time. Anyway, the thing is, this book really kills me, it really does. It's grand. But he'd hate it if I said that, he really would. And if you read this book, you'll also hate it too. But you'll kind of love it as well. You really would.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Death

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Grief, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Sexual harassment, Classism, Mental illness, and Homophobia

neki's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Some people would probably say that Holden Caulfield is one of the most despicable characters they’ve ever met in their entire bookish journey. I agree with them. Holden is, in fact, a little douche and a stuck-up teenager who does nothing but whine and wander. 

But this book explores a much more important concept about people and reality. 

(spoiler alert – just my two cents) 

Holden knows how much society has changed us and convinces us to become something we’re not just so we could fit in to the so-called norms and standards. In the book, he believes that every person he meets is a phony and he hates himself for gradually becoming one so he tries to defy the rules and be who he want to be (which makes sense since he thinks he’s better than anyone else just ‘cause he’s ✨ not like other people ✨). 

That’s why Holden is so hell-bent about wanting to be the Catcher in the Rye and strives to make a difference by saving the children from running off the edge of the cliff because he is aware that the moment they fall and land, no one will save them from the abyss (a metaphor for growing up).

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

karol99's review against another edition

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, and Sexism

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts

awenaur's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Homophobia, Death, Child death, Cursing, Misogyny, Suicide, Sexism, Alcoholism, and Mental illness

clairvoyant's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Mental illness

Minor: Cancer, Child death, Sexism, and Suicide

walrus's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Suicide, Alcoholism, Homophobia, Sexism, and Violence

Minor: Sexual assault and Transphobia

nickoliver's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

 I really need to think on this a bit more. I hated reading this book with a passion, but after a while, I realised I needed to look at it from another angle too. So I will do that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cursing, Mental illness, and Misogyny

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Ableism, Transphobia, Homophobia, Grief, Pedophilia, Gun violence, and Suicide

puttingwingsonwords's review against another edition

funny reflective sad slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Ableism, Alcoholism, Blood, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, and Violence

Minor: Cancer, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship

ssgcedits's review against another edition

dark reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

I hate this kid, and I hate even more that I relate to his anger. I could choke him, but he lives in the back of my head. What an absolutely mean little pest he and I are. And we're both too old for this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcoholism, Bullying, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Cursing

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Honestly, if it weren't for the absolute vulgarity of the language most of these triggers would be bearable. It's 200 pages of intense non-stop cursing. I read it in 2014 and it still haunts me.