/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.16631367]

ITT
>Unconventional picks for an author's best work

[Anonymous No.16631375]

>>16631367
Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters is certainly Salinger's best work.

[Anonymous No.16631383]

>>16631375
Nope, not that one, either. Its Seymour, hate to break it to you, but it's Seymour. Also, it'll be great to have a Salinger thread without the dead-horse phoebe meme polluting it. Thoae plebs havent read his other works

[Anonymous No.16632179]

>>16631367
My gf says it's Franny and Zooey which I'd admire if she had compelling arguments beyond "she's literally me". I think it's either 9 stories or indeed Franny & Zooey because Buddy is a much better narrator than Salinger himself.

[Anonymous No.16632212]

[Anonymous No.16632284]

>>16631367
RHtRBC was good, I didn’t like Seymour, an Introduction though. I don’t think Seymour Glass was ever as interesting as Salinger thought he was
Nine Stories is his best book IMO

>dead-horse phoebe meme
The what?

[Anonymous No.16632299]

Narnia is fine, but this is exquisite

[Anonymous No.16632308]

>>16632299
That looks pretty good, is it YA?

[Anonymous No.16632318]

>>16632308
No, the only explicitly YA books he wrote were Narnia as far as I know.

[Anonymous No.16632466]

>>16632179
>she's literally me
Not a bad thing, anon. Franny is a fleshed out, interesting, and compelling character. Her spiritual struggle is complicated in that signature-Salinger way. Don't take her for granted, anon

>>16632212
Hard disagree. Bloom was right, its grapes

>>16632284
Seymour an introduction is a powerhouse of prose, recontextualizing 9 stories and providing real, honest sentimentality that feels earned.

Also there's an unsubstantiated meme that Holden rapes phoebe

>>16632299
Beautiful choice, anon

[Anonymous No.16632549]

Is Holden Caulfield supposed to be a Autobiographical stand in for Buddy Glass? Does that make Franny Phoebe? Did Buddy rape Franny?

[Anonymous No.16632579]

>>16632179
Franny and Zooey is the one I fell in love with the most on first reading, but RHtR,C is the best. For Esme, with Love and Squalor is probably the best short story.

[Anonymous No.16634204]

>>16632466
>unsubstantiated
READ CLOSER LENNY.

[Anonymous No.16634223]

>>16631367

[Anonymous No.16634395]

>>16631375
Imagine thinking it’s not Franny.

[Anonymous No.16634537]

>>16631383
wrong

[Anonymous No.16634600]

>>16632284
>dead-horse phoebe meme
>The what?
He rapes his sister, Phoebe.

[Anonymous No.16634682]

>>16632212
>"the best of Steinbeck's novels" -- The New York Times
Unconventional would be Cannery Row

[Anonymous No.16634692]

>>16631367
Absalom, Absalom! Best Faulkner

[Anonymous No.16634721]

Lolita.

[Anonymous No.16635147]

'The Banquet' by Kierkegaard, from STAGES ON LIFE'S WAY.

[Anonymous No.16636326]

>>16634682
Unconventional would be Winter of Our Discontent

[Anonymous No.16636344]

>>16631367
Catcher in the Rye > Bananafish > the rest

[Anonymous No.16636359]

>>16631367
Man I didn't like either of these stories. I like RHtRBC a bit more, but I found all of it so boring. I don't really care about 'plot' in a novel, but it just felt like there was no point to these. I didn't even really pick up on anything particularly interesting thematically, I guess I was filtered in that respect. RHtRBC was at least funny in parts, I liked his description of the wedding.

[Anonymous No.16636502]

ADHDlets will never understand

[Anonymous No.16637381]

>>16636359
Yeah I felt the same way about everything but RHtRBC. The rest are really self-indulgent, especially Seymour, as compared to earlier stuff. Like he doesn’t even try to make them well-rounded stories. You’re just supposed to take his philosophizing and it’s dull stuff.
Catcher and Nine Stories are much better