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Title: Those Goddamn Phonies!
Review: I'm 29 and finally picked up Catcher in the Rye. I sort of read it in grade school, but at that age the story line didn't have much meaning to me, and I didn't understand what was going on.This book may be controversial for it's time but I really don't see the big deal now. Sure he says "Goddamn" a lot and there's a bit of sex talk going on, but that's about it. PG 13 at the most.Holden gets kicked out of high school and our story begins with him telling us his last days of school and returning home. The time frame of the book is only 2 or 3 days. Holden believes everyone is "phony" with the exception of a few people he actually likes.I enjoy this theme of finding ways to cope with the "phonies" of the world. I'm a big Kurt Vonnegut fan and this theme is often covered in his books. "and so it goes"Anyways, I don't know if I would consider this a classic, but it's a good book for sure.
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