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Jan 09, 2024emmapruitt rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
I really didn’t connect to this book. Even though I don’t mind books that are character-driven, I found Franny and Zooey to be exceedingly opaque and difficult to read. Most of the time I didn’t get what they were saying except in a vague…
Jul 19, 2023pipersage rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Loved this book even more than Catcher in the Rye, when I read it in college! Am planning to re-read it and am curious to know what my impressions of it will be now that I'm older.
Jan 24, 2023
I found the book rather tedious. The two main characters were self-absorbed neurotics.
Dec 01, 2021ekavery01 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Unassuming. Witty. Funny. At times, exhausting, because the characters can be! But that’s bc you feel like you know them. A prosaic home movie, as Buddy notes.
Aug 25, 2021iloveseaotters rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
I'd never heard of this book before I watched the wonderful movie "Carrie Pilby", but it made me curious about it. I wasn't impressed at all. I found it very hard to get into and the writing was very confusing. I'll stick to the movie even…
May 07, 2018SunsetBranch rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Read this for the Fat Lady
Jun 21, 2016ManMachine rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Being somewhat older now - I have to admit that I found "Franny and Zooey" didn't quite appeal to me as these 2 stories had when I first read them some 15 years ago. This is also the case that I've found with J.D. Salinger's other stories,…
Apr 27, 2016gord_ma rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Both "Franny" and "Zooey" are excellent chapters in the story of the Glass Family, with a meaning and an influence far greater than such short stories usually possess. "Franny" is a fairly straightforward story of a brilliant young…
modboi5
Jul 10, 2015modboi5 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
J.D.Salinger's intimate portrait of the Glass family is a watershed moment in modern American literature. Originally submitted as short stories appearing in the 'New Yorker', 'Franny' & 'Zooey' are the youngest siblings of the eccentric…
Nov 25, 2014jenoteacher rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
I remember liking this book in high school, but - surprise surprise - twenty and some years later I find can't relate to it anymore. The characters are misfits who can't find purchase in their adult lives. They have breakdowns, act badly,…
Apr 30, 2014joliebergman rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
A breath of fresh, whirly twirly, topsy, turvey, all you need is love air.
shjohnso
Sep 17, 2013shjohnso rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
could not get into it
Aug 02, 2013Lucchesa rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
I was not particularly into Catcher in the Rye, so I never read any more Salinger. But thanks to a couple of well-placed Franny & Zooey references in my life recently, I picked it up & am glad I did. Salinger, as he describes one of his…
ruthiepaint
May 08, 2012ruthiepaint rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Very fluid, and quirky.
Dec 30, 2011macierules rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I'm a huge Salinger fan and enjoy the antics of the quirky Glass family.
May 16, 2010lisahiggs rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I admire how well Salinger captured colloquial speech on the page, although it’s more the colloquial speech of television (or radio, as Salinger calls it) than of real life. I didn’t enjoy the parts where it seems like a manifesto…
Mar 07, 2010mvincelli rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Quick, good.