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Title: Extremely over rated
Review: I believe that works of art, be it sculpture, painting, music or literature are a product of their time. Those that are destined for greatness are rediscovered by sucessive generations with Michagelo, Van Gogh, Mozart, and Shakespeare as examples. Salinger's works in contrast, seems dated and aimed squarely at the angst of pampered American Baby-Boomers.Although I enjoyed this book as an adolescent, a recent re-reading of it made it seem self important and irrelevant. I actually wanted the main charecter to shut up and get over himself.I imagine Holden as a current day overweight, balding, middle manager working in MidTown, with and ex wife, drinking problem, large pharmacy bill, and chip on his shoulder caused by the world doing him wrong.To me, this novel has not stood that test of time that some other great works from the era such as Slaughter House 5, and Lord of the Flies have.
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