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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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  • Catcher in the Rye

  • This is an amzingly classic book. My only complaint is that I hadn't read it sooner.

    

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  • Loved this book! It helped to give me a different perspective on life.

    

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  • one of my all-time favorites....i read it almost every year to remember being young and confused...

    

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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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  • 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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Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today.

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• Fictionhigh school(YA.)Touchstone BooksBildungsroman501 Must-Read Bookread as a kidadolescenceHolden CaulfieldNew Yorkbanned
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