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Title: Cynical and wonderful
Review: This, along with Catch-22 and The Blind Assassin are amoung my favorite novels right now. Salinger does a great job at creating an amusing unreliable narrator (Holden Caulfield). At the beginning, Holden is failing out of his fourth school and has yet to tell his parents. Holden doesn't want responsiblity; he just wants to be young and running around fields (Catcher in the Rye). As I myself am 16, I found this novel especially relevent and can understand what he feels. Holden is overly cynical, to the point of hilarity, of everything. He espcially hates phonies, but pretty much has something to say about everyone. There are very few people that he respects. So while you are reading this, remember that while Holden is a very intriuging character and is very amusing to read (its like reading gossip at some points), he has faults, too.
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