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1180822 No.1180822 [Reply] [Original]

Total piece of crap. I'd heard so much about it and finally got around to reading it. 200+ pages of whining. What makes this book so good /lit/ ?

>> No.1180824

>>1180822
It's only 200 pages so you can read it and be pretentious like every other fag without hassle.

>> No.1180835

>>1180822

#1 his whining was funny
#2 OP is a fucken phony
#3 I think everyone has felt like Holden at some point, if they haven't they are phonies like OP

>> No.1180839

>>1180835
How exactly am I a phony? Sure, I've whined and felt depressed but this is a pretentious novel about a whiny bitch that everyone raves about. There is no merit to your argument.

>> No.1180846

ohlookthisthreadagain.jpg

>> No.1180850

>>1180846
ohlooknoteveryoneliveson4chan.jpg

>> No.1180851

All of these arguments are really crummy. Don't you people realize the innate plight of an upper middle class new york teen whose parents pay for everything.

>> No.1180853

>>1180851
Exactly. Don't you understand that he'll have to go to yet ANOTHER private school?

>> No.1180859

Just cause someone has the necessities of life doesn't mean they won't suffer.

Stupid poor people imagine that being rich solves everything.
People get confused.

>> No.1180911

>>1180853
>he'll have to go to another private school
The book is a frame narrative. He starts off explaining tha the's in a mental hospital.

>> No.1180914

>>1180911
Yes, but I believe he mentions going back to a new school in the fall

>> No.1180918

I didn't start the topic to get in an argument. I would really like to know why people hold this work in such high esteem. Is it because it was sensational 50 years ago? Because there doesn't seem to be anything special about the writing or the story.

>> No.1180954

>>1180824
Anyone who acts pretentious about having read this highschool curriculum children's novel is deplorable

>> No.1180964

you need to rid the world of your patgetic existance op

>> No.1180970

It's not a bad book by any standards. The prose is very pleasant, and really, anyone who's ever been a midlde class teenage boy can easily identify with the main character and all his angst.

Doesn't deserve all the praise it gets, though. I guess all the hype makes peoples' opinions really polarized.

>> No.1180971

>>1180964
You misspelled 'pathetic' and 'existence'
Difficult to take you seriously.

>> No.1180983

>>1180918
It's very, very good for the kind of niche for which it's writing. For most people, I can see how they would get frustrated at how amazing I think it is. However, for the sect of people who are very interested in studying the kind of antagonizing, brutal emotions of teenagers, nothing matches it, really. Nothing yet has gone as far or been so honest about the kind of shittiness and apathy of an upper-middle class teenager. Everything that's tried is either written as YA fiction, dressed up, fake, or whatever.

It's so appealing because it's a novel for teenagers, in a way that novels for teenagers SHOULD be, and not what they are now. Does that make sense? Nowadays, we have YA trash that any 12 year old can flip through in an hour, but is intended to sell for, and does sell for, anyone between 12 and 18; and your average fiction that anyone over the age of 16 can read and understand, but is intended for adults. Then, you have the GOOD literature, which is incredibly rare, that can be read by anyone but only learned from by those who have the capacity and intelligence to do so.

tl;dr Teenagers don't have good literature written for them anymore. This is good literature for teenagers, so they eat it up. It's not a masterpiece of literature, but it's a great book for the average adolescent.

>> No.1180986

>>1180983
Typos galore, holy shit I failed. Just read the tl;dr.

>> No.1180987

>>1180983
>>1180970

Thank you guys for well thought out answers, I really appreciate it.