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Mar 11, 2008
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My Mom owned this book with this cover...so, naturally, I now have it...it had cost 75 cents back then(there is no cents symbol anymore?! Oh the days of typewriters are surely missed!)
Anyway, who hasn't read this book? I was not required to read it in grade school. Most people were, right?
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Anyway, who hasn't read this book? I was not required to read it in grade school. Most people were, right?
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My son had to read this for school, and for some reason, I don't think I ever read this classic. The story of Holden Caulfield runs for just a few days - the time period after he realizes he has been expelled from Pencey Prep - (at least the third prep school that has given him this dubious distinction) to when he returns home. Holden narrates his own tale, and we see a boy that is traumatized by his younger brother Allie's death, feels socially isolated, and is struggling to find his place in a
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