None of the seven trillion Piers Anthony books I read in junior and senior high school changed my life forever, but, geez, there's a lot of hours there I'll never have back.

Ah yes. I remember the glorious day walking into a Waldenbooks and there being a new Xanth novel out (having read every single one up until that point). I stood and looked at it for a couple minutes, rolling it over in my hand, reading and rereading the back cover, before realizing, "Wow... I just don't give a shit," and moved on to find something else.

And yeah, I fell for Catcher in the Rye hook line and sinker my junior year, though I did think the protagonist was an idiot.

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