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  • I attended a Catholic school. The following year I was going away to a boarding school. That school sent a summer reading list that included this book. I began reading it. Someone informed me it might not be the best book to read at the Catholic school given the Church had banned the book.

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    I attended a Catholic school. The following year I was going away to a boarding school. That school sent a summer reading list that included this book. I began reading it. Someone informed me it might not be the best book to read at the Catholic school given the Church had banned the book.

    I certainly identified with Holden as a 14-year old boy.

    

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  • I wish this book would have been required reading for me in school. I bought this on a whim because i thought it was a book that i should read, and i was right. Great stuff!

    

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  • Don't be a G.D. phoney!

    

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  • Catcher in the Rye

  • I had read this as a high-schooler and remember really enjoying it. This time around (many years later) I had a harder time relating to Holden. My adult perspective found him both immature and negative. Still enjoyed the story though.

    

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The classic 1951 novel by J.D. Salinger is analyzed.

The title, J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on J.D. Salinger, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.

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