/lit/ - Literature

>>22065908

Penguins suck. I prefer first editions.

>Not writing a book about how you raped your sister accidentally becoming a best seller for alienated white children in their teens who fail to read your confession of pedophile-rape and being raped by your own father as a pathetic appeal to be physically liquidated; and, so, having to hide from the public gaze for decades.

BARS ALL THE WAY DOWN.

>>18169536

>I recommend women (male) and minorities (white people)

>>17809248
He rapes his sister, Phoebe.

We can all agree this was what the book was really about, right?

Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hand all the time, as if they were afraid they'd bore you or something. Jane was different. We'd get into a goddam movie or something, and right away we'd start holding hands, and we wouldn't quit till the movie was over. And without changing the position or making a big deal out of it. You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were. One other thing I just thought of. One time, in this movie, Jane did something that just about knocked me out. The newsreel was on or something, and all of a sudden I felt this hand on the back of my neck, and it was Jane's. It was a funny thing to do. I mean she was quite young and all, and most girls if you see them putting their hand on the back of somebody's neck, they're around twenty-five or thirty and usually they're doing it to their husband or their little kid--I do it to my kid sister Phoebe once in a while, for instance. But if a girl's quite young and all and she does it, it's so pretty it just about kills you. Anyway, that's what I was thinking about while I sat in that vomity-looking chair in the lobby. Old Jane. Every time I got to the part about her out with Stradlater in that damn Ed Banky's car, it almost drove me crazy. I knew she wouldn't let him get to first base with her, but it drove me crazy anyway. I don't even like to talk about it, if you want to know the truth.

>I do it to my kid sister Phoebe once in a while, for instance.
>I don't even like to talk about it, if you want to know the truth.

>>16349942

>>14135690
It's right there on the cover

>>13577079
Someone who appreciates incest literature

>>13027627
I love this one because animorphs #11 is the first chapter book I ever read.

>>12736530
This

Post all of your fake greentexts and best crab leg stories here
>be me
>go to bookstore yesterday
>the newer one that isn't an absolute rats nest of trade paperbacks
>it appears in the last year since i've been they have been trying to catch up to the other rag store
>Wander through the maze and find the literature/straight fiction section
>they have three copies of one day in the life of ivan denisovich
>I don't recognize any of the translators from /lit/
>cheapest copy is all underlined
>move on
>faust 1&2
>underlined
>while I'm browsing the help is having a loud conversation with the owner
>they proceed to shit all over some sci-fi series called outlands
>consider pretending I love the series but keep silently browsing
>helper chick asks "what are we doing with the religion and spirituality section"
>the way she said it was all sarcastic and dramatic
>again consider pretending to be offended
>find a copy of Gargantua and Petagruel
>Underlined in TURQUOISE PEN
>Sigh in disgust
>Tip the help and the cashier
>H-have a nice day!
>leave without buying anything
>Thanks y-you too! from behind me as I close the door

It's a good book, but you have to remember that people's appreciation for the book depends on their ability to empathize with Holden since the book primarily focuses on that young adult angst. If you've never experienced that angst or cannot understand it (like a sizable portion of /lit/), it's a shit book.

>>10483308
It is YA, it's just got some more adult themes - incestuous rape, for example.

>What's the deal with the meme about Holden raping Phoebe?
its true
>Is there any actual evidence behind it?
yes

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