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Just to expand on my earlier point, until I read this book I basically thought people in the 1940s spoke like Humphrey Bogart or something, literally all media I had consumed from that era had people speaking in such an alien, old fashioned way, like it was a different world. Holden Caulfield bridges that gap and helps me understand what someone might have been thinking back then.

This book predates sooo many famous pieces of media (predates pop music essentially) yet his edgy cynical attitude has always made me feel like the book could have been written in the 21st century. He hates on Lawrence Olivier the way a modern teen might hate on Justin Bieber or something similar and popular

I can overlook him being an annoying opinionated teenager or the story being boring just because he was basically the first to do it. The writing just feels crazy realistic and ahead of it's time. A real time capsule