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What book would you recommend to Holden Caulfield (literally me)?

>> No.14217550

>>14217541
He'd read YA

>> No.14217563
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>>14217541

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

>> No.14217568

>tfw no holden bf

>> No.14217572

>>14217568
same. but at the same time i feel as though i am holden so it wouldn't make sense.

>> No.14217585

>>14217572
m-maybe you can be my boyfriend then

>> No.14217590

nothing

>> No.14217600

>>14217541
The Catcher in the Rye

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>>14217585
anon, i...

>> No.14217618

>>14217612
what?

>> No.14217637

>>14217541
If I remember correctly he liked Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd? so more of Hardy?

>> No.14217724

>>14217541
Franny and Zooey

>> No.14217870

>>14217637
He liked The Return of the Native
The gril with the looking glass Eustacia

He also liked Out of Africa

>> No.14217882

>>14217870
And Gatsby
‘Old Sport’ killed him
Killed him meant it was good in 1950 prep school boy speak

>> No.14217893

>>14217724
Aren’t the characters all intertwined? The Glass family and the Caulfields...it’s been awhile since I’ve read the short stories.

>> No.14218041

>>14217541
If you pay close attention, his dad is a sellout corporate lawyer: even by the end of the story, Holden's begun accepting the demands of adulthood;—it's implied that he grows up to be just like his father, as so many of us do. What are a few high school fuckups if he pays his way into a good college and finally buckles down?

>> No.14218183

>>14217550
This

>> No.14218247

>>14217541
Typewriter Repair for Dummies

>> No.14218297

>>14217618
-'m pregnant . . .

>> No.14218342

>>14218297
i don't think boys can get pregant

>> No.14219284

>>14218342
bigot

>> No.14219297

>>14217550
>>14218183
He reads Hardy, you spastics

>> No.14219598

>>14217541
Holden is an insecure faggot.

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>>14218342
Wrong. Its 2019 baby. Science is for racist sexist mysoginist incels.

>> No.14220036

If you identify with that pathetic tryhard, you are a failure.

>> No.14220774

>>14217541
and then by natsume soseki

>> No.14220783

i'd recommend skylark, not necessarily because it'd appeal to that character, but just because i recommend it to everyone because i love it