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1091339 No.1091339 [Reply] [Original]

Why is this STILL the best thing ever written?

>> No.1091344

Because you're a faggot?

>> No.1091349

>>1091344

this

>> No.1091355

>>1091344
Wow. You would best learn manners yougn man. You won't get far in the real adult world if you are that way> That is why you do not have a friend

>> No.1091358

>>1091355
that was actually the most retarded attempt at a comeback I have ever seen
you just succeeded in making yourself look like a sixty year-old with Down Syndrome

>> No.1091373

>>1091358
go back to /b/, kid.

>> No.1091381

>>1091339
Because a part of us never grows up from being a mopey teenager. "Catcher" speaks to that aspect of our stunted personalities.

>> No.1091389

Because it describes the emotional experience of adolescence so well that anyone can feel like they relate to Holden.

>> No.1091400

I read that book a couple years ago because it was my ex girlfriends favorite book, and she always tried getting me to read it. Finally, she got it for my birthday, I think I turned 22, and I figured it was time. It's a classic, I should read it.

Every chapter I read, I kept thinking, "Hmm, maybe it picks up later on."

Too bad that never happened.

>> No.1091401

>>1091400

Oh, and I also recommended Dune to her. I give her one of the greatest pieces of science fiction to ever exist, and she gives me fucking Catcher in the Rye.

Me reading that shitty book was like a metaphor for our shitty relationship. No wonder it didn't work out.

>> No.1091402

Looking for Alaska should replace it in high school curriculum.

>> No.1091408

>>1091401
Shame she didn't like Dune over actual literature

>> No.1091409

>>1091408
herpa derpa derp

>> No.1091438

>Oh, and I also recommended Dune to her. I give her one of the greatest pieces of science fiction to ever exist, and she gives me fucking Catcher in the Rye.

>one of the greatest pieces of science fiction to ever exist

>dune

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>> No.1091451

it's not. It's a book about a kid upset about dirty words who gets molested. It's interesting. But it isn't amazing. God, I miss Middle School. There's a lot to be taken from this book if you haven't grown up, though.