/lit/ - Literature

Consider this

>*gets hated on because plebs don't understand the main character*

never felt so close to a character as Holden

Need more semi relatable books to connect with and feel better by comparison

/lit/ that every good author enjoys
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So we all agree that this isn't a story of growing up into adulthood, but actually a PTSD experience of a sexually abused child, right?

Why did this book inspire Mark David Chapman to kill John Lennon?

In my opinion it was just mediocre at best

>>12465767
Unironically.

Why didn’t he go Travis Bickle and start gunning for the filth of the world?

Are all the classics this easy?

he raped his sister phoebe

was it autism?

serious question

This book was literally about me.

I got halfway through this in high school years ago and never finished it. Should I track down a copy and bury the hatchet?

read this book when I was fourteen and I've re-read it 3 times

Well?

>>10353469
>not posting the ultimate not-YA YA

>>10335027
>blocks your path

Why do people have such a hard time understanding that The Catcher in the Rye is a book about death? There's references to death on almost every other page.

There’s the “It killed me” on page two about D. B. being in Hollywood, and then, at the bottom of the page, they talk about the football game: “you were supposed to commit suicide or something if old Pencey didn’t win.” On page four Holden tells us that he “got the ax,” and by page five that “you felt like you were disappearing.” Still only on page five, Mrs. Spencer asks Holden, “Are you frozen to death?” and the next thing you know he’s being ushered into Spencer’s room, where the old man appears to be lying, practically, on his death bed. On page nine, Holden talks about his gray hair; on page eleven, about the mummies; on fourteen, about a remark Spencer makes, “It made me sound dead, or something.” On page seventeen, “That killed me” reintroduces the recurring phrase that I eventually counted at least thirty-five times, and by page twenty, “You were a goner.” On page twenty two, Holden says of his hunting hat: “This is a people shooting hat...I shoot people in this hat.” And so on, and so on.

Why do you think Holden’s hunting hat is red: because Allie had red hair. There's Holden’s comment that “I act like I’m thirteen.” Although he’s sixteen when the book takes place, he was thirteen when Allie died. Why is Holden so urgent to know where the ducks went in the winter when the pond froze: he wanted to know where Allie had gone, and where he could find his mourning and unavailable mother. At the end of his B-movie reverie in the hotel where he pretends he's been shot, whether or not we want to know it, he finally tells us the truth: “What I really felt like, though,” he says, “was committing suicide.”