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The Catcher in the Rye
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  • It's The Catcher in the Rye.†   (source)
  • It was The Catcher in the Rye.†   (source)
  • For fun, I filled mine out as Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye, that semester's required reading and the first person to come to mind.†   (source)
  • Books: The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger; On War, Clausewitz; graphic novels by Frank Miller and Neil Gaiman.†   (source)
  • It's the life of the mind that matters, I toldmyself as I picked up The Catcher in the Rye off my bedside stack.†   (source)
  • And then he retyped The Catcher in the Rye.†   (source)
  • Sunday night, I reread The Catcher in the Rye until I felt tired enough to fall asleep.†   (source)
  • I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all.†   (source)
  • Catch-22, The Catcher in the Rye—anything with 'catch' in the title, I guess."†   (source)
  • Steve was reading that new book The Catcher in the Rye.†   (source)
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  • …shamans, all historians, writers, politicians and diplomats, liberationists of whatever sex and persuasion, lawyers, judges, penologists, stand-up comedians, film directors, journalists, in short, anyone concerned remotely with affecting the consciousness of his fellow-man—and this would include our own beloved children, those incipient American leaders at the eighth-grade level, who should be required to study it along with The Catcher in the Rye, The Hobbit and the Constitution.†   (source)
  • Bill thought my paper on The Catcher in the Rye (which I wrote on my new old typewriter!†   (source)
  • Dear friend, The day after I wrote to you, I finished The Catcher in the Rye.†   (source)
  • His only solace was reading The Catcher in the Rye.†   (source)
  • I gave Sam To Kill a Mockingbird, The Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, Hamlet, Walden, and The Fountainhead.†   (source)
  • One of them was The Catcher in the Rye.†   (source)
  • "At the start of the second semester of ninth grade, a new girl showed up from New York and she was as rich as they come, but she hated being rich and loved The Catcher in the Rye, and she said I reminded her of Holden Caulfield, presumably because we were both self-absorbed losers, and she liked me because I knew a lot of languages and had read a lot of books, and then she broke up with me after twenty-five days because she wanted a boyfriend who didn't spend so much time reading and…†   (source)
  • The Catcher in the Rye and Ginger Ale.†   (source)
  • Two: She should be pleased Steve was reading The Catcher in the Rye, and she would be if she hadn't selected the same title for his Hanukkah gift, wrapped and waiting in her car.†   (source)
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