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[–] AgriGrunt ago 

I really should have been a high school English teacher because I love most of the books that one reads in high school. That is not to say my tastes have not matured since high school, however, if I had to pick a single favorite book it would be, "Catcher in the Rye." It was my first experience reading a book where I felt that author truly understood what it meant to be me. I am not some knight out to save the kingdom or some person with an interesting life; I am simply a guy trying to find happiness in a somber world. I did not know what I wanted to be and I did not have a single good friend, but the idea of being a catcher in the rye really spoke to me. To be something important but simple. I did not feel that level of connection again until I read, "Hyperbole and a Half." I can fully appreciate the complexity of ASOFAI or "Finnegans Wake." I can love the depth of, "A Thousand Splendid Suns," or, "The Color of Water." But at the end of the day, the novel that speaks to who I am is simply, "The Catcher in the Rye."