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Title: Varying Opinions Shouldn't Be Surprising
Review: I see how some of my fellow teenagers found The Catcher in the Rye to be a boring or frustrating or pointless book. After I got over my initial shock, I realized that while this book was extremely special to me, it could just as easily be seen as trash by someone else. It is a highly subjective piece of literature, unlike, say, The Odyssey, which can be dissected as easily and unpleasantly as a frog. For certain types of people (myself included), books like this and Catch-22 provide characters to identify with. Other people with valid opinions might scoff at Holden and Yossarian and look to Beowulf-type heroes for proper role models. Quite simply, the anti-hero isn't everybody's cup of tea. I don't recommend this book to everyone--just to those that have ever felt alone and misunderstood because of different beliefs or paradigms.
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