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Originally Posted by avernus
Somehow missed this thread....but how come none of you mentioned On the Road by Jack Kerouac or The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger? Did no one find these books incredibly important when they were growing up?
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There was a literature article in Time Magazine last week asking "Who's the voice of this generation?". Salinger was on the list of previous voices. My favorite quote from the article: "The paradox of every Voice novel is that it brings a generation of readers together around the idea that they alone are the single badass misfit truth teller in a world of phonies."
I thought that the protagonist of The Catcher in the Rye was a whiner with no motivation.