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I hated The Catcher in the Rye

What did you faggots think

>> No.10844094

>20th century literature
repulsive

>> No.10844098

>>10844094
shut up your harry potter loving faggot

>> No.10844112

>>10844098
isnt hp 20th century literature

>> No.10844122

>>10844112
only in terms of release-date

>> No.10844123

>>10844082
I liked it, it is a lot less edgy than I thought it would be. And it’s actually wholesome at the end.

>> No.10844155

Phony=pseud.
The more I think about it the more I like it.

>> No.10844163

>>10844082
it was stupid
holden was a stupid teenager. nothing worth writing about ever happened.
i don't understand why it's considered such great literature. there are lots of books with stupid teenagers.

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>>10844082
Just marathoned this post. What did I think of it?

>> No.10844175

>>10844163
>nothing happened
It’s a story of a young adult being broken beneath the wheel of modern society and at last (maybe) finding some comfort in his family.
All of us, especially if you are on /lit/, have gone through something similar.
Kids keep seeing themselves as Holden.

>> No.10844180

>>10844082
Formative experience for me, will never forget how often I smiled in solidarity with myself and Holden while reading. The chorus of hungry ghosts wailing at his melancholic independence had no sense of self as children and were never once cognizant of how fucked their relationship with parents and teachers was.

>> No.10844187

>>10844175
>Kids keep seeing themselves as Holden.
no they don't
everyone in my class thought he was a whiny shit who should take some responsibility

>> No.10844189

>>10844122
The term 20th century is time related so what else do you have to take into account to talk about the 20th century if it isn't the year

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>>10844187
>Everyone in my class thought he was a whiny shit who should take some responsibility.
The absolute state of public education.

>> No.10844319

I liked it on the first read but didn't see why it was so special. The more I thought about it afterward, the more I appreciated it. It's good the way he writes an unreliable narrator and captures the essence of depression, immaturity, and the realization as we got older that life is harsh.

Btw - when he slept at that teacher's house and woke up being patted on the head, how did you all interpret that scene? My gf said he seemed like a creep, but my mother said Holden was overreacting. I like ambiguity like that.

>> No.10844341

>>10844319
>I like ambiguity like that
This is what I liked most about the book, thinking about it and discussing it with others. The writing style was annoying in the use of constant over use of the same jargon and catch phrases, but without it the book wouldn’t capture what it’s like to be in the mind of an angsty teen. That restlessness and lack of direction in modern society would have hit me hard if I had read it as a teenager.

I was talking with a friend about it after I finished it and he told me every time he puts on the hat he drops a truth bomb. Which, the more I think about, he’s right, but like hell im gonna reread it.

I also thought it was funny that Holden got mad about artists being killed by other people, talking about mercutio I think, and Mark Chapman goes and dedicated the murder of John Lennon to Holden.