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  • Matt Balzer@MattBalzer

    EJHill (View Comment):

    Kids would be better off reading Catcher in the Wry by Bob Uecker.

    Fact check: True.

    I think I made it through about three pages of Catcher in the Rye before I gave it up as lost.

    On the other hand, I was digging through a pile of books in our attic once and I found Uecker's book. I've probably read that at least five times. I wonder if it's still there...

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  • Majestyk@Majestyk

    Catcher in the Rye is an expression of the desperate cry of adolescence to matter.

    Spoiler alert: They don't. At least, not as much as they want to. People who were kids when this book came out had parents who killed Nazis in hand-to-hand combat on D-Day. There's no way to live up to these titans if you're one of these kids and insist upon mattering, and that frustration turned in on itself into self-indulgence.

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