Reviews

Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

openallnight_'s review against another edition

5.0

i too don’t want to get married because i like sitting by the windows on trains

babacababa's review against another edition

emotional inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

aritrigupta's review against another edition

1.0

I absolutely adore my friend who gave me this book as a Christmas present. But dear lord, how I hated the book.
I am not a Salinger fan, I do not get why Catcher in the rye is loved by so many. I hated Holden, and hence I hated Zooey, who was, well, Holden, but smoking and in a bathtub.
Everybody in the story was annoying, condescending and loved to throw around profound wisdom like loose change. I did not bother finishing this monstrosity.

camichan's review

5.0

I mistakenly began reading Franny and Zooey with a lot of things going on, both around me and inside my head. I love only-dialogue style books but they’re hard to get through when you don’t have time to concentrate. I think this is definitely a novel that needs certain historial and social background, about ‘academia’ and college life in the West Coast of the US. I enjoyed the religious debate Salinger spun through Franny & Zooey’s discussion, and I definitely need to reread this someday. It left me with many ideas to ponder upon.

caseyreadsandwrites's review against another edition

5.0

This book is now officially dear to me…I am very fond of it

tobeseve's review against another edition

4.5

The most dysfunctional people you've ever met in your life yapping at each other for nearly 200 pages. (It's great.)

georgesmith_83's review against another edition

5.0

I think about this book every day since finishing it, it is very necessary to young people (of any age) and Salinger continues to impresses me with every sentence and each new (to me) work of his!

antonia_elise's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

marschwartz's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny inspiring reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

For when the existential horrors feel particularly unmanageable 

chiliramon's review against another edition

4.0

I love ramble-y, no-plot books that are all about the vibes with a little (pretentious) existentialist angst. But most of all I loved seeing brutal and loving sibling honesty reproduced on page — that unspeakable, all-encompassing bond shared only by those who've been raised and traumatized the exact same way as you