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Franny and Zooey J D Salinger 9780316769020 Books

These two stories are beautiful. I absolutely love Salinger and, incidentally, these are my all time favorites. The characters are complex and lovable. I don't know. You just need to read it.

You might think it's just some dissatisfied 20 something year old's view on life. But it is so much more. Keep reading. For goodness sake, just keep reading for the fat lady.


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Franny and Zooey J D Salinger 9780316769020 Books Reviews

It's a wonderful 5-star book, as always, but the version has a lot of formatting problems. Try the sample first and see how much they bother you.
i bought this to read for book club, and it is also my friend's favorite book. still, i could barely read through it. suffocatingly boring.
When they hear the name J.D. Salinger, most people immediately think of "The Catcher in the Rye," which is far and away his most-popular book. If you bother to read the rest of Salinger's output, you find that most of it deals with the Glass family to one degree or another. From "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" in "Nine Stories," to "Raise High The Roofbeam, Carpenter, and Seymour an Introduction," the Glass family was the focus of Salinger's efforts.
Salinger's best can be found in "Franny and Zooey."
Sure, Franny is a histrionic drama-queen, and Zooey is a megalomaniacal, friendless jerk, who treats everyone around him as second-rate, but by the book's end, you understand how their childhoods (or lack thereof) have molded them this way.
Franny has a sort of nervous breakdown, and she decides that reciting "The Jesus Prayer," as prescribed in a little book called "Journey of the Pilgrim," will eventually grant her peace. Her know-it-all brother, Zooey, lays into her, telling her that if she's going to pray "The Jesus Prayer," she needs to understand who Jesus was, and not picture Him as St. Francis of Assisi, somebody's grandmother, and their dead eldest brother, Seymour, rolled up into one. There are lots of philosophies and religious doctrines batted around, but it all boils down to a difficult brother caring for his difficult sister.
I've read this book ten times, at least, and the most satisfying have been when I read all the Zooey lines aloud. (Yes, this must confuse the hell out of my neighbors, but the dialogue is so strong and rich, that it cries out to be heard and spoken, not just read silently.)
Try "Franny and Zooey." If you can forgive the two title characters, you'll find a rich and rewarding read.
I read this book many years ago and after reading Salinger's biography recently, I decided to read "Franny and Zooey" again. I liked it just as much this time as I did probably twenty years ago. The characters he wrote about are so vivid, I remember that the first time I read the book, I wished that I knew the Glass family in person and I felt the same way about them with this reading. This time though, after reading Salinger's biography, I felt that I knew the family more intimately.
The author wrote several short stories the Glass family who were a large family living in an apartment in Manhattan near Central Park. The parents were in show business and all the children were very intelligent and were on a radio show featuring very smart kids. The children were all interesting individuals as they were followed into adulthood. There are some corollaries between the lives of the Glass children and Salinger's own life which added to my enjoyment of the book.
Two wonderful short stories. It pairs well with Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters. And stands on its own just as well.
Franny Young Franny Glass has a terrible time visiting her long distance boyfriend.
Zooey The youngest two Glass children discuss theology, their irritability with others, and the beauty of all things.
There has been numerous essays, papers and books interpreting Salingers various works. I am not going to add to them. Take up and read for yourself and see what you discover. Then have another person read and then talk about your insights. Much more interesting than mind numbing stories found on TV!
Franny and Zooey by Salinger sort of resembles a more modern magical realism book.
The brilliant family in unlikely circumstances peopled with salient characters reminds me of Hal and his family's neuroses in Infinite Jest. The brilliant, dark musings and the eccentric surroundings are a vehicle for the author and reader to bond over the philistine ordinariness of everything else. Zooey thinks the whole business of people who want to actuate and accomplish things is dumb. Franny and Zooey both critique various plays and basically conclude that nobody out there 'gets it'. Strangely though, they're aware of their uniqueness and intellectualism - and they hate it
These two stories are beautiful. I absolutely love Salinger and, incidentally, these are my all time favorites. The characters are complex and lovable. I don't know. You just need to read it.

You might think it's just some dissatisfied 20 something year old's view on life. But it is so much more. Keep reading. For goodness sake, just keep reading for the fat lady.