Customer Reviews

J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye: A Routledge Study Guide (Routledge Guides to Literature)

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

I'm sorry to hear that anyone bought this book thinking it was the novel, The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger. It does say on the cover "J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye", which does hint that it is about the novel, not the novel itself, and Amazon describe it as "A Routledge Study Guide" at the top of the page, but I can understand that - at a glance - it might be easy to miss these things. The problem is that to give this book 1 star because it is not the book you think it is seems unfair to me. Worse, implying that it must be rubbish because of an ambiguous title is especially unkind! If you read it and don't think it is a good study guide, fair enough - rate it accordingly. If you have bought it in error, please raise that issue with Amazon, rather than expressing your frustration in the form of a bad review of a book you haven't actually read. Spare a thought for the author - me! - getting 1 star ratings because of the Kindle!

By the way, I haven't rated this book at 5 stars because I'm an ego-maniac, but just in attempt to draw attention to the issue - and, yes, maybe raise the average rating for the book just a little!

This is a study guide, not the novel. I'm usually not impreesed by study guides but that in-and-of-itself doesn't make it bad (aka one star). However, the fact that Kindle includes study guides (as I think it should) does put an added burden on buyers to see what s/he is actually buyimg.

I ordered this over a wireless device and did not realize that it was not the novel AND companion notes. After skimming this I had no novel and blown 15 Bucks. On the PC monitor I can see now why I should have known that this was not the novel also. Just word to the Ipod people.

Thanks to the reviewers who warned against buying this book, since it is not this book (sic). I would have been misled. Someone is not marking this clearly.

I also accidently bought this while intending to purchase the book. It is/was poorly labeled on the web site. The previous reviewer's response was quite rude.
BTW, this book was not worth what I paid for it.

On my kindle it appears that what I ordered was the book Catcher in the Rye but it turns out to be simply a review of this book not the book. It is hard to read the small print indicatiog a review. Thia is not what I wanted and a waste of money.

This item is so poorly labeled as a study guide that I would not take its contents very seriously.

Also it should be noted that the Kindle edition of this guide refers to paperback page numbers in Catcher in the Rye, rather than to locations of the Kindle edition of the book.