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Title: This book changed peoples lives?
Review: If Salinger had eliminated the words "g**damn" and "phonies" from this book I could have cut down the amount of time I wasted by reading it by half. Catcher in the Rye may have been groundbreaking when first published almost five decades ago but today whatever edge it once held is now lost. Teachers who rember this book as a life changing event and assign it to their students would be better off remembering sometimes that what is eyeopening to them may be an eye closer to others. If you want to see true literary greatness read Hugo, the word phonies isn't mentioned once and doesn't need to be.
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