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The challenges and fortunes that adolescents must confront along with immaturity and inexperience make growing up an uphill battle. However, many of us go through similar events that mold our ego with which we either learn and apply or just lower our guard and call it quits.
A lot of GD's and Christsakes. This supposed classic was a boy ranting at the world over a few days span. It was nothing more than a teenage boy talking crap to everyone and saying he didn't care about anything that happened to him. It was the worst 5 or 6 hours I ever spent. I won't be reading anything that may be published after he died, not based on this book.
The subject matter of the book was disappointing. The writing was excellent but I did not enjoy it because of the subject matter. I should have read it in high school but waited too long and I seriously wanted to give that kid in the book a kick in the butt.
We were required to read this drek in high school. Never responsible for their own shortcomings in failure to appreciate the privelege of existance. It made me sick then, and it makes me sick now, 45 years later, that so many morons could act like lemmings in calling this tripe a masterpiece. If it is a coming of age story, it is about humanity itself coming to an age of self-loathing and self-pity; constantly the victim. As I said; a first class moping piece of crap. Teachers should be fired for even suggesting an adolescent child or teen read it.
What a tragedy that Salinger went into seclusion and deprived the world (except his family) of his talent. A Genuine, True Classic. Once you read it again, you realize what a profound effect it had on American literature at the time. Hopefully a family member will publish his work soon. The Catcher in the Rye
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