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Title: Do your homework!
Review: If the ertswhile "Pencey Prep student" had bothered to do his homework, he would've realized that "Franny and Zooey" is in no way a "sequel" to "Catcher in the Rye', at least not narratively. It involves a different set of Salinger's characters, the Glass family, although the theme of resisting hypocrisy and phoniness which runs through "Catcher" also imprints itself on "F&Z". I think it's Salinger's most readable and captivating book, and the precocious Glass siblings aren't any more "self-indulgent" or neurotic than Holden Caulfield in "Catcher". There's truths in these stories which transcend their particular milieus.
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