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What Does It Mean????

sabyj7 @sabyj7 (20) • Malaysia 11 Oct 08

Ok so this is hands-down my favourite book ever! Holden caulfield should be enshrined as one of the best characters ever written! But i've read the book like a million times and i still don't quite get what exactly the phrase...

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Catcher in the Rye, Is this book redemptive?

lifbrue @lifbrue (108) • United States 4 Sep 07

Slightly. Kind of like Samuel Beckett, the redemption is so small and you have to fight to look hard for it. But when you find it, you feel it. This piece is a classic, no doubt, and many folks have felt just how honestly it was...

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Why did you read Catcher in the Rye?

ma_belle @ma_belle (1357) • United States 28 Aug 07

I know a lot of people read it in high school. Did you have to read it in high school? I actually didn't read it until college for an english class. I was never made to read it in high school. I did have the book for some time...

catcher in the rye

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What do you think of Jack Kerouac?

dominook20 @dominook20 (2) • Philippines 18 Mar 07

I have always been fascinated with the life of Jack Kerouac and started off with his biography, Angel Headed Hipster, before reading On the Road. I recognized the people he encountered in his life with the characters moving in and...

holden caulfied

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Books You've Read For Class

sparklespiff @sparklespiff (11) • United States 5 Feb 07

I'm sure it's happened to you at some point. Assigned reading, and you sit there, forcing yourself through the pages, wondering when these words are going to have any meaning at all for you, wondering what your...

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Where is J.D. Salinger?

RAMPersona @RAMPersona (2033) • Philippines 1 Nov 06

Finding Forrester

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