My favorite book is The Catcher in the Rye. The first time I ever read it I drank it up like a dehydrated person gulps down water. There was just something about Holden Caulfied's internal(and external)struggles that I identified with. I soon set out to read as much of J.D. Salinger's work as I could and became even more intrigued by his self-imposed isolation. I always secretly hoped he would reemerge and continue to write but he never did. He died today at the age of 91.
"Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them - if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry."
–from The Catcher in the Rye
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