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The Catcher In The Rye The Duc - Online Term Paper

The Catcher In The Rye The Duc

So where do the Ducks go in the Winter?
It seems that serial killers have great taste in literature. Just go read their favorite books. There isn't a Richard Bach or Harlequin Romance fan amongst them. Out of a morbid curiosity I read something that is said to have influenced Charles Manson (Stranger in a Strange Land) and I find the answers to questions that I've been asking for years. Nietzche may have influenced the Nazis but he's also one of the most profound philosophers of our age. Maybe it's a bit morbid to take book recommendations from serial killers, but who else can give you reading suggestions? Teachers? Friends? Oprah? Hell no!
The Catcher in the Rye is the book preferred 9 ...

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influential? Why do normal people have underlined copies in their personal library? Why is every book about whiney losers sitting around complaining about their lives, (where the major problem is that the damn author can't think of a plot) compared favorably to The Catcher in the Rye? Because it's one of the best fucking books ever written!
I read The Catcher in the Rye at the perfect age. I was 17, a frustrated freak of a high school student, seemingly doomed to perpetual virginity. To be exposed to Holden Caulfield in this condition is an epiphany that born-again Christian pretend to experience when they talk to Jesus. There is something unsettling about opening a book and reading something like:
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing
you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and
what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents
were occupied and all before they had me, and all
that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel
like going into it, ...

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Added: 8/25/2006 05:48:55 AM
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