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A good ways through this. Anyone here read it? He compares favorably with Tolstoy, I feel, when dissecting the characters. I've laughed out loud and teared up a few times-- all before page 100. Thanks to the anons who recommended.

>> No.12598162

Is this a new meme? I thought Salinger was supposed to be shit? Not that I ever read him.

>> No.12598185

>>12598162
I’m going to read it to find out!
the Seymour stories are legendary, not sure if good or bad though
makes sense to decide what the ultimate books are and read them asap

>> No.12598186

That is Salinger's worst work by far.

It got so panned by critics and the public Salinger then proceeded to live for decades in butthurt reclusiveness.

>> No.12599611

>>12598052
OP is not a faggot

>> No.12599622

>>12598186
No one liked Moby Dick back then either. Seymour was ahead of its times.

>> No.12599624

>>12599622
Lol that book is nowhere close to the level of moby dick

>> No.12599639

>>12598052
>>12599622
It’s trash my man. It’s actually insufferably boomer.
>muh Buddhism
>much wacky zany upbringing as a child prodigy

Salinger suffers from his own popularity with Wes Anderson having made a meme of this type of character and someone like Robert Crumb and his brothers being far more interesting and realistic depictions of these types. The precursor to the sky boy when it was still avant-garde to be one. Unfortunately Salinger is so character reliant, he lacks the universal pronouncements and asides that a Dosto or Tolstoy can provide, that once the characters fail for you the whole work fails.

>> No.12599643

>>12598162
Salinger's later work is wild.
>>12599624
How would you know? I'd bet you haven't read either.

>> No.12599645

>>12599639
onions boy*

>> No.12599650

>>12599643
I have read it and it's definitely the worst. This is coming from someone who really likes his other work.

>> No.12599664
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12599664

>>12598052
J.D. Salinger writes like an absolute cretin

>> No.12599680

>>12599664
Bloom loves Salinger though. He thinks Catcher and Nine Stories are masterpieces.

>> No.12599685

>>12599680
proof

>> No.12599686

>>12598052
I remember when I was 21

>> No.12599702

>>12598052
I saw it on BoJack Horseman at Neflix xD

>> No.12599708

>>12598186
Absolutely not. The Glass family arc is clearly the best thing he ever did.

>> No.12599722

>>12598162

Only catcher in the rye is bad. A lot of people stop there because it's shit, which is a mistake, because everything else by Salinger is solid gold.

>> No.12599734

>>12599664
He is a cretin actually. He had an IQ of 110.

>> No.12599817

>>12599734
Well, in that is Salinger's appeal. His IQ is high enough to reproduce a distinct personality but not to uncover why the personality acts the way it does. In reading Catcher you'll relate but will you discover anything about yourself you did not already know?

>> No.12600293

>>12599734
>IQ

autism

>> No.12601596

>>12598186
wrong about when he became recluse

>> No.12601634

>>12599734
iq is a meme and so are you

>> No.12601650

>>12599639
This says nothing about the writing, a typical brainless dismissal based on thematic content. People like you read just as you were trained to in high school.

>> No.12601836

>>12598186
1963 bestselling novels:
The Shoes of the Fisherman by Morris West
The Group by Mary McCarthy
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour-An Introduction by J.D. Salinger

>> No.12601870

>>12598052
I've been told Seymour is shit but Carpenters is god tier.

>> No.12601876

>>12601870
seymour is shit and carpenters is mediocre. just read nine stories and franny and zoey