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Originally Posted by maianhvk
I never liked The Catcher in the Rye, though I read it when I was 16 and had really dark thoughts at the time. Don't know why I didn't like it. Maybe it was because of cultural difference?
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Originally Posted by jtdolphins
The book was actually given to me by my high school teacher because he thought I would like it. ...
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I reread Catcher in the Rye recently. I found it again of great value, as literature and as it gave me deeper understanding.
I might be proficient to read it together with Goodbye Columbus, the novella that Philip Roth wrote in 1959. Although with very different styles, they both deal with kids' alienation and show an amazing understanding of teen agers of that time (and not only) and of their "confusion, angst, alienation, language, and rebellion". (Quoted from Wikipedia).