/lit/ - Literature

>>5026726
It's one of my favorite books. Its just fun trying to decode what the world around Holden is really like, compared to what he is saying.

>>5026726
Check it out with something else that's patrichè so the qt octogenerian with inch thick bifocals won't know you're plen

Is this the book where Holden rapes his sister? His sister Phoebe?

>>5026726
You can probably find it used for like 2 dollars at a book store. Or for not even 5 on Amazon. It's worth reading. (I'm 22 as well, and I'd read it again.) honestly the library people are probably just happy people still want to read 📖.

>>5026735
He rapes his sister, Phoebe.

>>5026726
You definitely want to read it while young though, that way you have a closer connection to the main character.

>>5026756
fact

>>5026758
I never read it as a kid. I read it recently, and I didn't even like it. Can't see why so many like it, but I think it has to do with having read it early.

I always thought the cover looked like one of those elemental mobs in molten core on WoW

>>5026778
>i posted it again!!1!

>>5026778
I don't get this because I haven't read it. Is it a spoiler? Or some kind of epic meme because he doesn't actually rape his sister but you like to pretend he does? Or is it something else entirely?

>>5026827
I like how you had your little reddit moment over the image and not the multiple posts in the thread that kicked it off. Also I commend you for not posting "x" seventy times but holy shit dude get over it or stop coming to 4chan if memes make you cry

>>5026726

>is this critically acclaimed work of American literature that has become considered standard reading worth reading past the eighth grade?

>>5026726
It's basically how someone with bipolar disorder views the world. It's okay. Not great.

>>5026836
autism

>>5026758
I read it when I related to it most and that diminished my enjoyment more than anything

maybe that's part of the experience

>>5026833

he doesnt rape his sister. She's just the only person Holden really seems to care about, so as always, people who read the book assume he wants to fuck her.

>>5026726
I've not read it either.

I read all of Salinger stories about the Glass family though...Banana Fish, Raise High the Roofbeams, etc.

I didn't like Salinger or his writing. Should I read this book?

No more than Jewish degenerate literature.

>>5026833
He does rape his sister. It is an epic meme because most readers are too stupid to actually read the book and realise this.

>>5026726
>implying you aren't a pleb

>>5026726
Just read Elliot Roger's manifesto. It's much better than Salinger's dated crap.

>>5027013
This meme is old, stop it.

>>5027087
I'll stop posting it when fatuous childmen stop posting the book.

>>5027159
>STOP LIKING WHAT I DONT LIKE

>>5027166
>>5027087
Tu quoque.

>>5027172
autism

>>5026726
It loses some meaning when you don't have any teenage angst in you.

Reading it now will just make you cringe, unless you're an immature manchild.

>>5027188
I'm sorry you got called on your bullshit.

>>5027197
autism

>>5027200
Please do continue, your attempts at puerile insults make your argument so much stronger.

>>5026871
its immaterial to the story if he did or did not rape his sister


the story hinge is where he describes what he wants.

also the shaving bit reads a bit like a watered down version of ulysses

>>5027195
I didn't read it until I was 19 and I feel it gains meaning if you're a bit older when you read it. You realize what a hypocritical phony Holden is. How he's already lost the battle of not being an innocent child anymore, but merely plays at being one.

People here love to talk the stupidest kind of shit about this book. It's good, though, and you should read it. I re-read it the other day, thought it was great, and I'm 24.

>>5026756
Rapes her?