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Water for Elephants is an amazing novel. I could not put it down and was sad when I finished it.
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With the recent death of its author, J.D. Salinger, I felt that it was time to finally do something I have been intending to do for years, read his classic. I was disappointed. Maybe it was because I had high expectations after all the hype. Maybe it was because I kept expecting something to happen, you know, the classic building action, climax, resolution thing. This book is nothing like this.

Written about a couple of days in the life of a teen who was newly expelled from yet another private high school, the author explores the traditionally pessimistic, skeptic, somewhat depressing view that youth has about the world created by his predecessors. Written with plenty of voice, this book is an enjoyable read, as the reader waits for something to develop. I could almost hear the voice of this book’s contemporary, Jack Kerouac, in the pages. But nothing does happen. Maybe that was the author’s point. In any case, I found that disappointing.

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I had heard this was a good book. I was misinformed. This was the most crude, foul book I have ever attempted to read. Though the main story was mildly interesting, the all too frequent use of profanity and descriptions of intimate relations put me off entirely. I started trying to use white out to cover the offensive items. I quickly realized that would include a great deal of the book. I decided I didn’t want to fill my mind with such things and stopped reading. This book went directly into the recycle bin rather than being donated to a thrift store. I didn’t want another unwitting person to go through the same experience I did.
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The novel The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger is a powerful novel chronicling the life of an upper class teenage boy, Holden Caulfield during the early 1950’s. Around this time, more and more people were conforming to society, dressing the same, acting the same, and through Holden, Salinger challenges those ideals. The book opens when Holden is expelled from yet another boarding school, because of his awful grades. He finds the world around him to be fake, and those people who demand him to conform to be phonies, not true to themselves. He sets off for New York City on his own, in a journey of self-exploration where he learns about love, life, and sex. As a troubled youth, he is a constant pessimist about the world around him, seeing it to be a mass conformist nation, without any true individuals, except for himself of course. His early life is troubled, and his younger brother’s death shook him badly, and effected him deeply. Some of the pessimism comes from his older brother, a writer who in Holden’s opinion became a prostitute for Hollywood, abandoning his own writing to work for the movies, selling out in the worst way.His parents seem vastly absent in the novel, perhaps suggesting that his parents are not role models for him, and while they may love him, they do not truly understand him. Without this adult guidance he mistrusts the adult world, a cynical view which pervades the whole book. This kind of teenage rebellion is something that the youth of today can easily relate to. Holden himself is an easily relatable character, and modern teens will find something of his character similar in themselves, whether that’s his cynicism, or his constant thoughts about sex. He is confused by sex, but still finds it intriguing, and of course wants very badly to experience it. He goes on a date, with an old friend, and while he tries very badly to be charming, he cannot stand how absolutely fake he feels she is, and this leaves him disappointed with the world in gene
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Glad we purchased this, if you have the garmin, you really should have this too. Don’t tempt the thieves, hide your valuables.
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Simply like the settings and the memory ability. The only problem is it is a little big to put on the belt. But if you have a handbag, you can clip inside and it works great! It counts accurate too, as I tried to count myself and compared with it.
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I have 2 large short haired bulldogs who shed their huge winter coats every springs. Sometimes it looks like it snowed from the wads of dog hair that I pull off of them. Since buying this tool it really seems to help pull the underneath hair out. And best of all the dogs seem to enjoy it so it is a win-win for me.

(The reviewer was compensated for posting this review. However, the opinion stated in the review is that of the reviewer and the reviewer alone. Further, the reviewer independently selected this product to review and has no affiliation with the product maker/distributor, Amazon or the review requester.)
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I have purchased several pedometers over the past few years with the hope that they live up to what the manufactor says it can do. Another person told me about this pedometer that keeps accurate steps whether it is in your pocket or fastened to your belt. I thought by word of mouth is better advertising then what the manufactor has been putting on the packaging, so I purchased the Omron HJ pedometer and I too am a believer in this pedometer as being accurate and one of the best pedometers out on the market. I love the different modes, and the easiness in working it.,
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this is not my first time using one of these for my GPS, about 4 years ago I got one for an older Garmin C330, it worked OK but it was not very stable especially on the dashboard. This one is much better and it seems to stick better on the dashboards in both our vehicles. Our car was broken into and the radio was stolen so we are trying to minimize any displays that encourage thieves to hit us again. This was a good solution since we can stow away after usage. good product.
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This was one of the BEST books I have read. It was a quick read, mainly because it was SOOOO interesting. This book is all the things that make a book fantastic: it makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you THINK!! And if you pay attention, it teaches you something about life. It was a really great book.
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