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Title: Best book you've ever read? Read some more...
Review: I think it's really funny that most of this book is devoted to examining "phonies". Holden is a "phony". This is quite useful information if you prefer to search for meaning in the book; it allows Salinger to say two things at once: e.g.-he points out the phoniness around us, while at the same time decrying the hypocracy of American culture (pointing out phoniness when we ourselves are phony). Pretty interesting, but it doesn't stack up against the more interesting, meaningful, and longer studies of culture that followed, i.e. Catch-22, The Recognitions, Gravity's Rainbow, and Infinite Jest.
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