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Title: An excellent book--should top everyone's reading list
Review: I actually had to read this book for my English II class (gasp! no one likes doing that!) and I absolutely loved it. I could identify with so many of the feelings that Holden had--a lot of these reviews pass him off as being "just a jerk who likes to swear a lot", but I think that Holden is actually representative of all of our inner selves. We all have that cynical, hateful person somewhere inside of us. Someone who'd just love to get kicked out of school and run rampant on the streets for afew days. He does what we sub-conciously want to do, he says what we sub-conciously want to say. I think the reason a lot of people don't like this book is that it lays out all of these feelings that Holden has, and people become threatened, so to speak, when they realize that they can identify with those feelings. But it's an excellent book, really very well written. If you would like to dispute my review, or talk about this book,you can e-mail me...
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