/lit/ - Literature

>>11628245

So the last book I finished was Moby Dick and it was phenomenal. I loved Melville's creative writing, the whole thing read like poetry, it really did. It really knocked me out. You'da loved it. Now I'm reading Catcher in the Rye and I really don't like it. I really don't. His writing style is like how repetitive, dull and just phony, in my opinion. It really is.

Satire aside, why is this book so hyped? I understand I'm entering the immature mind of an isolated and lonely Holden, and I'm only halfway through it right now, a lot of the themes are introduced in a rather subtle and unconventional manner, but I just see Salinger being dwarfed by Melville's immense talent. I almost view Salinger's approach in this book as a scapegoat - hiding behind the guise of an immature boy makes a convenient excuse to write like shit.

But obviously I'm a retard so plox enlighten me wise ones

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