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I am fully convinced that this is the greatest book I have ever read

>> No.14135552

>>14135544
before any shitposters or tripfag trannies:

yeah. Salinger somehow creamed out a cosmic classic. Essential book for any young american male. Only actual plebs will refute

>> No.14135553

Let's not take things out of proportion here, lads.

>> No.14135555

>>14135544
Anon, you should be 18 or over to post here.

>> No.14135557

>>14135544
Are you 14?

>> No.14135564

>>14135555
holy shit quads in my thread

It’s an honor

>> No.14135639

It’s one of the better high school literature essentials but only someone who has read barely anything would think this
>>14135557
He certainly seems to be going on this>>14135564

>> No.14135641

I never read it. I've read Dosto, Tolstoy, Melville, Joyce, Nabokov, a good portion of any list of the western cannon. But I've never read The Catcher in the Rye or most any of the high school classics for that matter. I skipped more than every other day of high school to do whatever I felt like, and ultimately decided to not even worry about graduating and took the GED instead of worrying about my formalities in the 12th year. Worked out well.

>> No.14135669

>>14135639
imagine falling for a bait thread that isn’t even a bait thread

>> No.14135677

>>14135544
Why did he rape his sister

>> No.14135680

I dont know whether it's inflicted some jewish pathology on me, or mk ultra bullshit. Was salinger a spook, in the vein of freud, or both?

>> No.14135690

>>14135677
When does that happen?

>> No.14135718

It's essentially a Vitruvian Man for YA literature and stories aimed at males. As the progenitor, IT is a work of art, but its myriad descendants are merely diagrams to Salinger's instruction, sometimes veering toward a pornographic appeal, and to this end, they cheapen his individual contribution.

>> No.14135721

>>14135690
Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around – nobody big, I mean – except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff – I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be Holden Rapes his Sister, Phoebe and all.

>> No.14135737

The subtlety of its absolute cosmic epicness is the best part. It is the greatest epic ever written.

>> No.14135751

>>14135677
Incest is popular and accepted within the jewish community.

>> No.14135837
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>>14135690
It's right there on the cover

>> No.14135846

>>14135552

Fpbp

>> No.14135855

It makes perfect sense to want to kill John Lennon after reading this, as he was definitely one of the forces taking away the innocence of children.

>> No.14135862

>>14135544
That's because it's a masterpiece and Salinger is a genius. Most people don't get it, though, they'll say it's for highschoolers or whatever, because they're only reading at an extremely shallow level, and I don't feel like arguing with them. But be assured, you're not alone.

>> No.14135865

It certainly captures the aimless nihilism of adolescence. Particularly blaming others for how they make you feel, the depression accompanied with lack of self worth, dealing with childhood trauma in self destructive ways, while being intelligent and having nuanced perspectives about the world we inhabit and the hypocritical nature of society.

Re read it the other day and loved it. A very touching book.

>> No.14135867

>>14135855
>as he was definitely one of the forces taking away the innocence of children.
how?

>> No.14135897

>>14135867
The Beatles were a gateway to adult themes.

>> No.14135909

>>14135641
>Never read it.

Then fucking read it

>> No.14135910

>>14135544
What's Salinger getting at?

>> No.14135920

>>14135862
Based fella right here

>> No.14135926

>>14135837
it's definitely there in the text

>> No.14135941

>>14135897
So was every hippy music in the 60s.

>> No.14136561

>>14135941
And they were the biggest of all of them. Why not go for the biggest in the genre if you're guaranteed prison regardless of which hippy musician you kill?

>> No.14136725

Holden was the Second Conimg.

>> No.14136868

>>14135544
He asked the drivers
>Where do the ducks go in the winter?
Why the fuck did he ask two separate drivers this? Is he desperately asking where you go when you die? I mean no shit it's South but where the fuck do they go God dammit

>> No.14136915

>tfw you're 20 and still identify with Holden's mix of sensitivity and cynicism
wtf I thought I was supposed to grow out of this