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Title: This book helped me realize something important
Review: I hated this book. I hatedThe Catcher in the Rye, too, but I figured that it was because I read it when I was eighteen and Just Didn't Get It because it was Important Literature and I Simply Didn't Have Enough Life Experience(TM). But now, years later, I've come to the conclusion that I just hate Salinger.His characterization is awful. His characters are despicable, unsympathetic, egocentric, neurotic, and narcissistic. If I wanted to experience the incessant nattering of people who are simultaneously this reprehensible and this boring, I'll watch reality television. I had to read or re-read three other fluff-novels to have enough mental reserves to finish this.I do have to thank this book for one thing, though. Franny and Zooey helped me to realize that life is too short to read bad literature. Never again am I going to fight my way through to the end of a novel I'm not enjoying just to indulge a compulsive desire for completion.
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