The Catcher in the Rye Free Pdf

ISBN: 0316769487
Title: The Catcher in the Rye Pdf
Author: J.D. Salinger
Published Date: 1991-05-01
Page: 240

Novel by J.D. Salinger, published in 1951. The influential and widely acclaimed story details the two days in the life of 16-year-old Holden Caulfield after he has been expelled from prep school. Confused and disillusioned, he searches for truth and rails against the "phoniness" of the adult world. He ends up exhausted and emotionally ill, in a psychiatrist's office. After he recovers from his breakdown, Holden relates his experiences to the reader. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature

Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories, particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme--With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is full of children.

The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days.

The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it.

There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices--but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep.

Boring read I just don't get it. This was one of the most boring reads ever. I had to force myself to finish the book, short as it is. When I was 16 or 17, I knew who I was and what I wanted from life. I can find no basis for identifying with any of Holden's psychotic mental rantings. If you find yourself groundless and life to be a bewildering chaos, then maybe you can find some connection with this character, but I, for one, find Holden to be a narcissistic whiner, and I find this "classic" to be a complete disappointment. Oh, and for the reviewers who carry on about the symbolism: ok, it's there, but I think the "deep" symbolism that you gush over is trivial. But then, I'm a little jaded because one of my best friends wrote a novel that made the NYT Best Seller list; he says he did not purposely put ANY symbolism whatsoever into his story, but found that he later had to invent some in order to massage the egos of reviewers and readers who just KNEW that it was rife with multiple layers of symbolism. Wait a minute...maybe Sallinger did have a valid point, after all, with his treatment of society's phoniness. The bottom line for me: this book receives a ton of positive press, and I would love to have liked it, but the honest truth is I hated it.... Rye was a book full with a lot of great imagery and a lot of thought put into it The Catcher in the Rye was a book full with a lot of great imagery and a lot of thought put into it. The book is a very easy to read , it can be read very quickly and very easy to understand. I enjoyed reading this book due to the fact that the main character Holden Caulfield is a 16 year old boy growing up. Holden struggles with deciding whether he is grown up or if he is still a kid. Recently , getting kicked out of his school Pency Prep before Christmas Break due to poor grades and only being able to pass one class, he decides to go on a journey through New York. As he starts his adventure he talks about people he knows and cares about. Holden talks about how smart , red headed and friendly his brother Allie is and how he passed away due to Leukemia. Holden also tells the reader about his other two siblings D.B and Phoebe. D.B is Holden's brother in Hollywood and Phoebe is his little sister who still leaves with her parents. As the story goes on Holden claims that everyone he meets is a phony. Not only does he say that but he also lies to everyone he meets. He either changes his name or makes up a story on how he got there and why. Through out the book Holden shows that all he wants to do is sit down and talk to someone about the problems he goes through in his life but when someone tries to get close to him he pushes them away and makes up lies on why he can't be there with them and leaves. He mentions a lot a girl who used to live near by, Jane Gallagher . Holden explains how close he used to be to her when he has a child , and every adventure they did together. Later to reveal he is in a mental institute waiting to get out and go back to school. The most controversial part about this book is the fact that Holden is a heavy smoker. He tries to lie about his age just so he can get a couple drinks at a bar or he gets people to do it for him. Holden also uses a lot of profanity during the story. He also hires a prostitute in one part of the book. He talks about his sexual life and who he would like to be with. Definitely how a person going through puberty would feel like. I would recommend this book to kids who understand what Holden is going through or can relate to what he does and why he does, but then be of an age 16 or order due to the strong language he uses. Very controversial but a very realistic book.

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Super Sales on Super Heroes Free Pdf

ISBN: B07MCVVNDM
Title: Super Sales on Super Heroes Pdf Super Sales on Super Heroes, Book 3

Felix would like nothing more than to take a vacation. A long one. One where he didn't have to wake up every morning and worry over casualty lists for the day.

Ever since he and the Legion had been forced to flee their headquarters four years previous, nothing had gone quite right. In fact, Felix and the Legion have been locked in a shadow war with enemies unknown. Ones with magic that could carve through their technology easily.

As the rest of the world fell apart, tearing itself to pieces at every turn with the return of the old gods, the Legion has held the chaos back. The price in blood has been climbing slowly, lately.

Felix suspects there's a change on the horizon. One that he hasn't prepared or developed a plan for. Or so his paranoia has been telling him. That there's a change coming now that'll shake up the world. One that will turn it inside out, Legion and Felix along with it.

Felix has decided it's time to push ahead and act. To finish things and protect his people at the same time. To take his Legion and make it safe.

Because that's all that matters in the end to him. His Legion. And it always came first.

Warning and minor spoiler: This novel contains graphic violence, undefined relationships/harem, unconventional opinions/beliefs, and a hero who is as tactful as a dog at a cat show. Listen at your own risk.

Doesn't know what it wants to be I'd like to preface this review by saying this isn't a Bad book, just inconsistant when viewed from the eyes of the rest of the Super Sales series.This book Doesn't read like a Super Sales book, nor does it read like a Wild Wastes Book, it reads like a mash up of the two series, but in a bad way. All the characters we love and expect to hear about from super sales are essentially not there, and they're viewed as nearly unimportant. Add onto that we're getting side and minor characters from Wild Wastes being inserted, trying to be major characters from Both Worlds/Series, which throws off the whole tone of the books. Every Single character in this book had their personality changed for the worse or were not given much face time. The only character who didn't change was Vince because the Crossover scenes needed to stay the same.The only Good/Great thing about this book is that the ending sets up Book 4 in a great way, needing to Save some of His people, while helping out his Benefactor in his mission.Everything falls apart I've mentioned before in other reviews that I am not a fan of Greek Tragedies. Why the ending was semi good, the entire premise of the book seemed to be centered around two things. Setting the reader up for the sequal, and developing the character of the 'Over-God'All of the book was about how Felix was trying to get out of having a harem and the pantheon was out to get him and he could get a break. No happy ending, only constant defeat and 'we'll do better next time'. I've bought all the books, I'm a patreon member; I guess I should read the advance chapters because I was really surprised at the way the story progressed.Not much in the way of Super Heroes So I've loved this series but this is the weakest so far, and I think it has a lot of problems.One of the oddest choices is that we start with a five year time skip. Yet, things are pretty much still at the status quo we left of at book 2. Legion has not expanded much, still being focused in pretty much one country. Legion doesn't have any fancy new toys or new people. Felix's personal relationships are still at the same place. Despite indicating they were going to be moving things over to Legion World at the end of book 2, apparently their settlement is barely developed at the start of Book 3, and not suitably developed enough if they wanted to move everyone over. With the portals, I have no idea why they would not put all the dormitories, research facilities, ect on legion world where they would be safe, other than a brief explanation of "it would be like running away again."There is also the problem that the author ties this book into some of his other series. One of the tie ins you will find out about early on, but the other comes later. If you haven't read these series you are missing out, but you can still read this. The early tie in comes off as "eh, why is he doing this," but the later one I thought was very cool.The problem is how the characters from these other series are used. Felix gets a new personal assistant, new body guards, new ect. He spends most of the book surrounded by an entirely new cast of women with the exception of Miu. The old supporting cast is shuffled off to the sideline, and for the most part are content with this, or even encourage it. The biggest problem about all of this is that it's not necessary.The characters don't serve an important role. The problem that the "magic of the dryads" solve is hastily introduced just before the dryads are introduced to fix it. Felicity, who the book seems to center around is characterized very little in this book. All you know from reading just Super Sales on Super Heroes is that she is extremely competent, utterly in love with Felix, everybody likes her, and her family was "poor" when she was young. That's about the extent of her characterization. She is basically an author written Mary Sue in this book. Everything that Felicity does in this book could easily have been taken care of by one of the preexisting women.If you followed the Tenchi Muyo OVAs and where upset when they made new ones only to focus on new girls, that was what this was like.Some of the new characters are good. The dragon girls are interesting additions, and I would have liked to see them more. Unfortunately they don't come in closer to the end. I thought we were going to see Felix being stuck with them for a longer period, developing a secondary harem, but what seems like it will be a fairly involved plot thread gets resolved fairly quickly in a literal Deus Ex Machina.Finally, as to the title of the review.There is not much in the way of super heroes in this book. A few powered make brief appearances, but the focus is instead on generic "magic" with ambiguous limits and abilities and "faith." Other than bringing people back to life, I can only think of one character that Felix upgrades all book, and that is just with a generic "sign on package." Never mind, I also remember that he gives Felicity a power as well. But we don't see much of him debating over what stats to upgrade or if he should give someone powers.We only see his "point total" page twice, both when he does not have access to his full set of powers. He spends most of the book unable to use his powers, and when he can we don't see him using it. Perhaps the author decided Felix is too powerful, and could not come up with a good way to deal with it, but it really felt like it belonged to a different series than the last two.I'm going to read the next one. The first two books, and the author's other series have won enough good will from me for that at least.ONE FINAL NOTE:I've only listened to the first two in audiobook format, this was the first one I read, so its possible the others were like this as well. There are a lot of sentence fragments, that when heard out-loud read almost like stream of counciousness, and I am sure sound fine. Reading it though was jarring. Much of the dialog was also formatted oddly. If a character was speaking a paragraph worth of text, the final sentence would often be set aside as a separate line of dialog. As such if you are not paying careful attention to if the closing quotations are there, it visually looks as if someone else is talking. This was only a minor inconvenience, but it was annoying.

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Fuck This Shit Show Free Pdf

ISBN: 172562835X
Title: Fuck This Shit Show Pdf A Gratitude Journal for Tired-Ass Women (Cuss Words Make Me Happy)
Author: Crazy Beetches
Published Date: 2018-08-05
Page: 152

Keep your best friends, mother, aunts and girlfriends laughing at life with our Signature Snarky Journal!


Our best-selling journal is designed as a funny gift to help an overstressed friend find a way to laugh at the crazy and hectic days of motherhood, work and life in general. 
This unique, snarky and fun little gift features quotes, along with one of three activities for each daily entry. Our customers love so many features of this journal, including: 

• The original layout featuring prompts for Asshole of the Day, Today I'm Proud I Didn't, Today, I'm Happy I Did, I'm Lucky To Have will keep you laughing at life every day!
• Repeating corresponding journal spreads with prompts Today's Shit List (People, Places or Things) and Other Shit To Remember to document all of your feelings and let your rage out on a page - rather than bottling up negative emotion.
• Rate your mood (in pineapples)
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• Plenty of space for your own personal thoughts and a fun, modern layout featuring pineapples!
• 152 pages; convenient 6" x 9" size with matte cover and white interior pages.

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Uninspired journal! Waste of money. This book was sooo disappointing. When I ordered there were no reviews or consumer pictures, so I took a gamble.I assumed this would be a funny and lighthearted journal to inspire laughing at the stresses of life. A perfect gift for my currently stretched-to-thin friend...No. Not at all! It was 1 lame and very uninspired journal page (technically 2 pages that made 1 spread) over and over and over. Not worth the paper it was printed on.I DO NOT RECOMMEND. Regrettable purchase.For My Adult Daughter Just what I thought it would be.Transportation markings this journal was the most perfect gift IDEA for my co-worker. When I scrolled through gifts in searches on amazon I stumbled upon this journal and just knew I had to get it for her! It arived just as amazon informed me it would. The condition came damaged which was very disappointing. I knew the process of returning would result in added time and stress as well as receiving after the holidays which defeat the purpose of gifting for the holidays.. I gifted it anyways. The internal pages are repetitive. Regardless I love the concept and She absolutely loved the pineapples and sayings! I’m sure she saw the imperfection and that is disapointing considering I took extra time to pick the perfect gift. I would NOT buy again based it coming home with marks on the cover. (Advice: bubble wrap and better choice of shipping process ) I wish it was recieved in prestine condition consindering it’s price, that is what you expect. Descriptions and previous photos do not describe what is inside the journal. Here you go, it’s simple. Pages linked in photos...Makes scence. It would have gotten 5 stars if it came in without creases and dark spots as new condition.

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Marvel Comics Pdf

ISBN: B00DG292XK
Title: Marvel Comics Pdf The Untold Story

“Sean Howe’s history of Marvel makes a compulsively readable, riotous and heartbreaking version of my favorite story, that of how a bunch of weirdoes changed the world…That it’s all true is just frosting on the cake.”
—Jonathan Lethem

“Exhaustively researched and artfully assembled, this book is a historical exploration, a labor of love, and a living illustration of how the weirdest corners of the counterculture can sometimes become the culture-at-large.”
— Chuck Klosterman

Operating out of a tiny office on Madison Avenue in the early 1960s, a struggling company called Marvel Comics introduced a series of superhero characters with eye-catching bright costumes, smart banter, and compellingly human flaws that thrilled not just children but also pop artists, public intellectuals, and campus radicals: The Fantastic Four. Spider-Man. The Hulk. The X-Men. Iron Man. Thor. Daredevil. All of them interacted in the same epic universe, weaving a tapestry of stories that, taken together, would become the most elaborate fictional narrative in history and serve as a modern American mythology for millions of readers.

For the first time, Marvel Comics tells the stories of the men who made Marvel, including Martin Goodman, the self-made publisher who forayed into comics after a get-rich-quick tip in 1939; the late Stan Lee, the energetic editor who would shepherd the company through thick and thin for decades; Jack Kirby, the WWII veteran who’d co-created Captain America in 1940 and, twenty years later, developed with Lee the bulk of the company’s marquee characters in a three-year frenzy of creativity that would be the grounds for future legal battles and endless debate. Incorporating more than one hundred original interviews with those who worked behind the scenes at Marvel over a seventy-year-span, Marvel Comics packs anecdotes and analysis into a gripping narrative of how a small group of people on the cusp of failure created one of the most dominant pop cultural forces in contemporary America.

An Epic Story That I Wish Was Even Longer Gossip is always tantalizing. Gossip that surrounds a hobby in which you've had a long-standing interest for the better part of two decades is outright addictive.As someone who's read the credit captions on the comics for years and who follows company and creator news on the online comics websites, I've know about the broad strokes of Marvel's history. This work, which relies on firsthand accounts of industry veterans, fleshes out that history to an obscene degree.The narrative is truly enjoyable. Although the cast of "characters" is tremendous (and probably a bit confusing if you aren't already familiar with many of the names), each subject covered is engrossing. There are some strands to this history that unite the piece as a whole; for example, all throughout Howe makes digressions to trace out what I would describe to be the pitiable path taken by Stan Lee, Marvel's longtime public figurehead, keeping with him even after his star has waned.Of particular interest to me were the ever-present corporate influences stemming from the top, the changing dynamics of the Marvel Bullpen, the editorial politics of 1970s Marvel (a decade that was a big blank for me beforehand), and, of course, the backstabbing.I only wish that the story continued! While I understand why some histories shy away from very recent events, reckoning them to be too fresh and best deferred for retrospective analysis, it is odd that the book effectively ends with the Bill Jemas era of the early 2000s. Howe refers, in passing and in the last few pages, to a few storylines after that era, but it would have been interesting to get a more in-depth look at the current Marvel. What's the backstory with Buckley, Fine, and Alonso? Hopefully we'll get a follow-up down the road.The only drawback was an occassional sense of temporal dislocation in the narrative. With the kind of story that Howe undertook, with its multiple layers, several levels, and stories within stories, I couldn't always tell whether one vignette was intended to follow upon another or was meant to be understood to have occurred in parallel with the one before it. It didn't really hurt the story, but I would have appreciated more month/year references within the main text. (There are citations in the back, but it's a hassle to keep referring to those while reading.)What a job! I don't know what must have been harder, having to read decades of low profile fanzines (for contemporaneous interviews with comics professionals) or having to parse out every he said/she said of the behind the scenes soap opera of the Marvel Bullpen.Any comics fan who wants to know about the history of the comics business and how it changed over the years would do well to read this. However, those without a pre-existing interest in comics will probably love or hate the inclusion of such anecdotes as how writer/artist John Byrne may or may not have shouted at and threatened future writer Peter David (then a PR staffer) over sending out preview pages to the press that revealed the shock ending to Byrne's Alpha Flight #12 - and how they still feud about it to this day. Is this tidbit emblematic of the state of the business at that moment in time, or a fanboy space-filler that slows down the overall story? (If you'd say the latter, consider this a four-star review.)Howe is a very, very skilled writer, who must have had quite a job trying to make thousands of anecdotes fit properly into their historical place, as well as the thematic and social flow of the book -- as well as make it easily readable and feel briskly paced. In real life, events do not fall neatly into place by year or regime. So Howe has to jump around a little bit to draw an errant story into the correct context. Speaking as a comics reader and a former biographer, I think he pulled it off masterfully.I only hope for his sake he hasn't made too many enemies in the comics professionals' world - in attempting to give multiple sides of every story, he's probably pleased no one. (Not to mention fanboys on the internet who love to trash everything.) A couple of places I thought I'd caught Howe in a mistake, but it turned out I was wrong. (Steve Englehart feuded with Joe Quesada over writing the FF? Not possible! I'd forgotten the limited series "Fantastic Four: Big Town.")Kudos to Howe for collecting all this info, parsing it, organizing it, and making it a breezy read.

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Inheritance Free Pdf

ISBN: B07DBRGMFB
Title: Inheritance Pdf A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

“A gripping genetic detective story, and a meditation on the meaning of parenthood and family.” —Jennifer Egan, author of Manhattan Beach 
 
From the acclaimed, best-selling memoirist and novelist—“a writer of rare talent” (Cheryl Strayed)—a memoir about the staggering family secret uncovered by a genealogy test: an exploration of the urgent ethical questions surrounding fertility treatments and DNA testing, and a profound inquiry of paternity, identity, and love.

What makes us who we are? What combination of memory, history, biology, experience, and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us?
     In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis, Dani Shapiro received the stunning news that her father was not her biological father. She woke up one morning and her entire history--the life she had lived--crumbled beneath her.
Inheritance is a book about secrets--secrets within families, kept out of shame or self-protectiveness; secrets we keep from one another in the name of love. It is the story of a woman's urgent quest to unlock the story of her own identity, a story that has been scrupulously hidden from her for more than fifty years, years she had spent writing brilliantly, and compulsively, on themes of identity and family history. It is a book about the extraordinary moment we live in--a moment in which science and technology have outpaced not only medical ethics but also the capacities of the human heart to contend with the consequences of what we discover.

Mixed feelings all around As a medical student in the 1970s, I had classmates who picked up a little extra money by anonymously donating sperm for artificial insemination. The practice was normal by that point, moving away from the deep secrecy that shadowed Dani Shapiro's conception and childhood. Her reactions to the discovery of her concealed paternity and her search for meaning struck me as off-topic in what I'd expected to be a book about unraveling the mystery of her origins in a much more concrete way. That part was so quick and easy -- not the detective story I had anticipated. The rest was still a tale of mystery, but on a psycho-social plane. Who lied? Why? Who suspected the truth? How could Dani have ignored the hints? What does it mean to lose an identity that is tied to a false genealogy? How should an anonymous sperm donor react to being unmasked by DNA?Extensive introspection wasn't what I thought I had signed up for when I bought this book, but it turned out to be fascinating enough that I read it in one sitting.If there was a surprise in your DNA results, this book is definitely for you... I went into this book knowing it was a memoir (and that I don't usually read or particularly like those). But like the author, my DNA results turned up a few surprises and so I was very curious about someone else's journey... So bear in mind that might be the reason why I loved it so much. This book is really an exploration of the absolutely unexpected and often profound feelings we have around what makes us who we are and our identity. The author wrestles with the questions about this that are becoming something that many people are now unexpectedly (or even expectedly) grappling with. Watching her struggle with how her biological vs. social ancestry have defined her was truly engrossing, and has a lot to bring to the conversation about what exactly makes us who we are (something that is really just now starting to be explored in the context of how common DNA testing has become). But in this brave new world where we can now spit in a tube and see the exact genes that make up who we are biologically, identity has become and lot more complicated, as are the stories we tell ourselves to go along with it. In the end I found her story incredibly touching, disturbing, satisfying, and much more familiar than I think I would have preferred...Relatable As someone who discovered thru my Ancestry DNA test close to age 40 that I was the product of artificial insemination, this story indeed struck a chord with me. Contrary to one of the comments above about there not being secrecy in the 1970s, there was indeed secrecy well into the 1980s regarding the use of donor sperm from med students/residents and the practice of artificial insemination. There are no records available to many donor-conceived adults conceived thru the late 1980s. Recipient parents were told that secrecy was of the utmost importance and never to tell the children conceived this way. It astounds me that so little thought was going into a practice that was creating human beings. Dani eloquently writes about feelings and deeply personal reflections that I myself have felt. Please remember that donor-conceived people are people with feelings and it is a basic human right to want to know where you came from. We did not ask to be created this way. If you know someone who is donor conceived or you yourself are, I highly recommend this book!

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