/lit/ - Literature

Why do people hate Holden again? He seems like the archetypical /lit/ poster, neurotic, depressed, lonely, feels like an outcast, hates the normies, sensitive, moderately intelligent, good with words, retarded around women, etc. I relate heavily to Catcher in the Rye, yeah Holden's a dumb pathetic shithead but am I not ?

Also I'd appreciate any recs that will help me out of the Holden mindset. I feel like I probably shouldn't still be like this at age 21.

>>20270054
What if I am my own enemy? I bet you didn't think of that, huh? It's because you're a woman. Get fucked.

>>20265458
It really was the Catcher in the Rye

>>18915947
I'm still tumbling down the Dunning-Kruger effect curve, aren't I?

Mention you like the book pretty much anywhere and people just have a sort of grudge against it. Is this just a result of people being forced to read it in the school?

haven't read the full thing yet,

>>16587288
Yes, especially if they never had sex in the first place, I'll reiterate, He simply wanted to see her without facing his parents about him being expelled, that visit is simply a buffer between facing real world consequences, by hanging out with his kid sister and just chatting, that's all.

Its like a purgatory, after all those "adults" that hurt him throughout the book, he expects even more shit from his parents, so he just wants some time to see the only person who won't endlessly judge him and the person we've been hyped up to meet the entire book.

Isn't the fact that his teacher made a move on him and he leaves straight away + rejecting the prostitute more proof of the fact that Holden is someone who stays away from this corruption?

Can you guys recommend fiction that would appeal to a fascism sympathizer?

Is reading and understanding 32 Books in 2 Weeks child's play?

ok so what the fuck do i do if i'm in my early 20s and still identify with holden?

Did he have ADHD?

What books would you recommend to someone in their early 20s who feels like Holden?

>>14825243
How did you know?

Post a literary character and others guess his tax policy

>>14217541

I wouldn't recommend anything. I would listen. That's what no one did.

I didn't have to be like this bros...

Literary characters that would browse 4chan
>Raskolnikov
>The underground man
>Holden Caufield

i used to make fun of him when i was in high school so why did i turn out like him bros...

https://electricliterature.com/dear-men-please-stop-assigning-reading-to-me/

> Few things unflatter a man like delivering a verbal syllabus over dinner—but even more so, few things unflatter a writer like the men who so fervently recommend their works.

I hope none of you are tonedeaf and autistic enough to talk about literature to a girl you’re trying to date.


> But this particular right—the right to recommend a novel, an essay, a poem—is a right you earn. It requires the absence of ulterior motives, romantic or otherwise. There can be no desired result.

Remember this quote and you won’t fuck up in your romantic life.

He was a doomer.

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what am I in for

Do you think Holden finally managed to kill himself when his sister grew up, got a bf and started to avoid him because he acts weird?

>>13427740

>tfw twitter is full of phonies