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Title: Beyond Terrible...
Review: Surprisingly, I never was forced to read this drivel in school. Being a voracious reader though, I checked out a copy during my junior year of HS. I was expecting a classic; what I got was crap. How is this supposed to be a literary masterpiece?! I couldn't make it more than 50 pages into the book because I became so enraged at the lazy, whiny, rich-brat protaganist that my hands were shaking. No joke, I literally wished Holden was a real kid just so I could beat him to a pulp with a 2x4.Don't get me wrong here, I was a sixteen year old at the time, I hated the world, and I'm sure I was a pain in my parents' butts. But at least I had the insight to realize that, like many teenagers, most of my problems were caused by me and not 'the phonies' or the man. I simply cannot understand how anyone can sympathize with a character so self-centered and unlikeable. A terrible book then, and upon introspection, a terrible book now.
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