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Title: I Was Misinformed
Review: "The Catcher In The Rye" had always been shorthanded to me as a classic "coming of age" book, involving teenage angst and alienation. (It is, perhaps, a "classic" in the sense that Britney Spears is a "star.") Having recently read the book for the first time, I discovered (regrettably, too late) that I had been misinformed. It is not at all about a young man coming of age, beset by archetypical teenage angst and alienation; it is about mental illness. I also suspect it is autobiographical, and so do not blame Mr. Salinger for the book's lamentable lack of any literary merit. I fear, rather, that in the writing of it he simply could not help himself.
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