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The Catcher in the Rye is the greatest book written the 20th century.

Pretentious contrarians will disagree.
Schizophrenic double-ironic contrarians will pretend to agree.

>> No.11024462

>>11024456
Best book of the 20th century is the Bible.

>> No.11024466

>>11024456
Greatest in the 20th century? Fuck no, what is wrong with you lol

I love the book; I find it to be fantastic, but there are others that ought to be evaluated for greatest way before Catcher in the Rye in my opinion at least.

>> No.11024476
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>>11024462
What do you think this is? you can't but past winners in the running you fuck
>>11024456
It's undeniably Ulysses

>> No.11024491

>>11024476
The Bible is timeless.

>> No.11024499

I think it's Mein Kampf

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> not culture of critique

>> No.11024572

>>11024466
Like?

INB4
DFW
Pynchon
Joyce
Vladmir the riddler diddler Nabokov
McCarthy

>> No.11024669

>>11024462
the bible is the book of the millennium
and i predict the gulag archipelago will be the book of the new millennium

>> No.11024699

>>11024456
one of the best, top 50 at best, def not THE best.

>> No.11024704

>>11024572
Mann, Beckett, Proust, Borges, the list goes on

>> No.11024707

>>11024704
Stage 2 pretentious level achieved!

Lol fucken absurdism my dude hahah! 420 my dude....4.....20.

>> No.11024752
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>Saw it on a garage sale, name sounds familiar.
>Bought it for 5 mexican pesos (about $.30 USD).
>Looked for info on Wikipedia.
>GnR song.
>Decides to read.
>Blew my mind.
>Wanna start a thread on /lit/ for the first time (never been here before).
>Saw this thread.

Anime never dissapont me :').

I really enjoy the way it is written, so much genuine.

Anything similar?

BTW, sorry for my english.

>> No.11024876

>>11024572
>inb4
>You can't name potential candidates or authors that me no likey!!!1!

Harper lee, camus, fitzgerald, steinbeck, tolkien, toni morrison, more and more

>> No.11024896

I really liked The Catcher in the Rye, but it's not that great. Let's be real. For example, I JUST started reading Brave New World.
After just 5 chapters, it's said so much more about the human condition than CitR said in its entirety. CitR is great if you're an angsty teen, pissed off at normies and adults, but besides reading it during your adolescence, it won't teach you much.

>> No.11024922

>>11024896
Great example anon, Brave New World could be the greatest book written in the 20th century.
Those last three chapters are pure art.
Hope you like it :)

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>>11024669
Go to sleep Memerson

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>>11024752
>BTW, sorry for my english.

>> No.11025041

>>11024456
It's a great book but you need to read it when it can have the most impact on you (13-15yrs old)

>> No.11026045

>>11024896

Brave New World blows. Not even close to Catcher. The whole thing about Shakespeare is enough to sink it and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

>> No.11026051

>>11024456
I read the first half of it. I couldn't stand it. But then, I read it when I was 20, and even then I could tell that I should've read it when I was 14.

>> No.11026062

>>11024456
No, but Seymour An Introduction is a contender.

>> No.11026078

>>11025041
>>11026051
I hear this a lot but most people who read it in highschool seem to completely miss the point of the book and just complaing about Holden whining. Or even worse they think Holden is supposed to be unlikable.

>> No.11026128

>>11024456
The scene where he rapes his sister, Phoebe certainly elevates it

>> No.11026144

>>11024456
>goddamn book just kills OP

>> No.11026153

>>11024707
>Listing undeniably some of the greatest authors of 20th century
>Stage 2 pretentious

what happened to this board

>> No.11026154

>>11026078
Most normies can't understand holden since they live in their little bubble till the end of college/university.Even when they start to worry about their future(if they ever will,that is.)they still probably can't understand because their lucky free attitude is still to be decimated.To be honest i think the catcher in the rye should only be read once you are in your 40s and 50s for most people.

>> No.11026165

>>11026153
>what happened to this board
/pol/edditors

>> No.11026217

>>11024707
Seriously. I never read Mann but Beckett, Proust, Borges (and Pynchon imo) are some of the uncontroversially best writers of 20th century.

>> No.11026810

ITT
>people pointing out Cather in the Rye's lack of relevance outside of the "existential teen" demographic
>OP samefagging about how ""great"" it is

>> No.11026818

>>11026045
>not understanding symbolism
Oof

>> No.11028120

>>11024456
Catcher in the Rye is one of the most overrated books in history.

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>>11024707

>> No.11028415

>>11024456
i'm a double schizophrenic post-ironic double-contrarian and i'm pretending to disagree

>> No.11028436

>>11025041
I re-read it recently (I'm in my 40s) and it still really impressed me. I read it over a weekend, though, and by Sunday I desperately wanted to get out of Holden's head. It was kind of a relief when I finished the book.

>> No.11028540

>>11024476
stupid dogmatic 2013 style image lit poster