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So where do the Ducks go in the Winter? It seems that serial killers have great taste in literature. Just go read their favorite books. There isn't a Richard Bach or Harlequin Romance fan amongst them. Out of a morbid curiosity I read something ....

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... promote this book. John Hinkley may have been trying to impress Jody Foster, but he was also a big Catcher in the Rye fan. The level of general craziness surrounding this book is so bad that Conspiracy Theory made it the running joke, even tracking Mel Gibson by monitoring purchases of The Catcher in the Rye. So why is this book so influential? Why do normal people have underlined copies in their personal library? Why is every book about whiney losers sitting around complaining about their lives, (where the major problem is that the damn author can't think of a plot) compared favorably to The Catcher in the Rye? Because it's one of the be ...