/lit/ - Literature

>>10941408
OLD MAN'S CLAMMY HANDS

Have you raped your sister?

>>10941431
No, haven't finished it yet.
Scared now.

>>10941408
>identifying with the character

bad reader detected

>>10941450
>tfw never identify with any character
my life is too uneventful to find something reminiscent of it in a book

>read catcher in the rye at 14
>hate it and think holden is whiny and annoying
>reread catcher in the rye at 18
>never related so hard to a character in my life

Isn't it supposed to be the opposite? Was my teen angst period delayed or something

>>10941437
he doesn't rape his sister

>Getting MK-ULTRA'd by a book this hard.

>>10941682
there it is

>>10941682

>>10941408
>shy, autistic, goody goody boy in high school
>grow up believing in the religion I was raised in (Mormonism) until early 20s
>realize it's a cult founded by a weirdo pedophile
>start to branch out more
>I'm 10 years behind the curve on everything, including my teenage angst
>read Catcher in the Rye
>identify at 25 with a 16-year-old Holden
Just please fucking kill me already.

>>10941680
Listen to Anon, anon.

Also none of you fucks reply to that Catcher autism thread. Fuck this board is a shithole.

>>10941408
is't that book about not wanting your friends to grow up, that's why he is the catcher in the rye and shield's the kids from passing to adulthood and that's why he fails at banging that whore, jokes on him, we're all a bunch if kids anyway no matter the age,

also, to identify with the book you will need to have friends first

You realize that this novel was written by a genius pedophile Jewish intelligence officer working for the CIA using neurolinguistic programming techniques in order to program Manchuria candidates, right OP? The autumn sparrow is on the chair against the red door.

>>10941408
how's your first book reading coming along?

>>10941486

Never identify with anyone. If you do, you start to miss everyone.

>reading Steppenwolf
>really identify with the main character
>get depressed as I come to realize he is almost Underground Man tier satire

>>10941408
>identifying with a character
pleb detected

>>10941408
Uh oh, indeed. Next thing you know OP will be walking the street, purging the world of phonies with an AR-15.

>>10941408
>read book
>start to identify with character
i'm happy that i'm cynical enough to not do this anymore ever, enjoy while you can OP, this is going to go away as well at some point

>>10942201
i don't think he has any friends except the 2 siblings he raped

>>10941488
same

>>10943872
i thought it was the author having a shitty middle life crisis on his 50s that he should have already had on his 30s and also pretending that he understood Jung and signalling that he did to other trendy Germans from his time

>>10941488
I think not relating to Holden as a young adult is a sign of immaturity.
Holden is right and wrong about some things, but if you can't see some aspect of yourself in his story, especially as a young person teens-20's, then you are either trying to present yourself as a mature adult (inadvertently outing yourself as an immature child) or you have some kind of mental or emotional problem.

>not naturally assuming the perspective of an older sibling towards the characters of a book
I can't help but get emotionally attached to everything

So was his old english teacher a flit or what?

>>10942189
You're like some kind of Pete Holmes parallel.

Kind of stupid to bring the tuberculosis thing up so late, let me guess, hook for the inevitable sequel that never came?

Still, YA was most certainly better than

>>10944741
>>10943881
>>10943916
>>10943814

I always thought that not identifying with characters meant I was hella autistic. Turns out im just based as fuck.

>>10945654
he was feeling unwell for the last half of the book

regardless of feelings about Catcher in the Rye, can't we agree that Salinger was a master of observations and writes great dialogue and prose in general?

Self loathing whiner.

>>10944723
I think it was his whole spiel about "being yellow" that spoke to me the most. I see it as a wake up call to work on myself, however.

>>10945802
Of course, Holden speaks to a lot of people through his own troubles.
Though a lot of people suspect that Holden is Salinger's younger self, which is why he had a chimpout over his biography released.