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Title: Made a Huge Impact On My Life...
Review: ...and it only took five years!Amazingly enough, I haven't read this book since 10th grade. And back then, I absolutely loathed it. Maybe because my teacher kept insisting to me that it was about "how society has moved away from spiritualism", which I just wasn't buying. At the time, I thought it was just about some whiny kid who hated absolutely EVERYTHING.It took five years, but I FINALLY get it. Holden's favorite thing to think was that people are phony. Well, guess what? People ARE phony. The book may not be about society moving away from spiritualism, but it is about society, and how hypocritical it is. For me, the brilliance of this book is that Salinger had the balls to write it in the first place. Through Holden he stood up and told society exactly what he thinks about it. Three cheers for Salinger!
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