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so is this the greatest book ever or what?

>> No.1686038

answer: yes

>> No.1686050

What's it about?

>> No.1686054

Only if you read it at a certain age. Once you're past that, or are no longer in the right frame of mind, it's just okay.

>> No.1686053
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1686053

why would you even start a thread like this?

>> No.1686073

holden was a whiny little bitch

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>> No.1686084

>>1686075
ohhh fuck ye i hope he does

>> No.1686092

>>1686075
pinkeye anyone?

>> No.1686102

>>1686075
lol'd

>> No.1686107

I hate the way this book is written. I really do.
Everything is all phrased funny and it sounds phony. I hate phoney things. Like prosthetic noses. I figure if you've gone and lost your nose, like to frost bite or something, you should at least just wear a mask or something. Not a big phoney nose on your face.
I went to school with a guy with a phony nose. He was always trying to pick it. Out of habit I guess.
It really killed me.
Anyway this book is stupid and Holden was autistic.

>> No.1686111

AMERICA, FUCK YEAH

>> No.1686114

booooooooooooooring

>> No.1686116

Holden was a whiny whore who didn't develop at all. It didn't even have a goddamn plot--it had a story, yes, but no plot. There's not a single likable character in the entire novel and I personally don't care for the style in which it's written.

So I guess the answer to your question would be, "Or what?"

>> No.1686120

The only thing that made this story bearable was the fact that Holden kept getting his ass kicked all through it.

>> No.1686126

>>1686107

lol, you nailed it

One of my favorite books anyway...

>> No.1686143

All of you that didn't enjoy it did not read it with the understanding that Holden is an unreliable narrator. He is the most "phony" person in the entire book, because while he puts on this very nonchalant, "isn't really bothered by anything" attitude, if you read the book properly you see the real Holden.

I read it a few years ago, but specifically when Holden is talking about "his favorite teacher", he does not say exactly why this teacher was his favorite, but he just happens to mention that this teacher was the first person to run to the aid of a student who jumped off the school's roof and killed himself.

Holden says it as if its nothing, but that scene in itself really moved Holden and didn't just make this teacher his favorite, but he loved his teacher; while all others stood idle at the scene of the boy's suicide, this teacher, who probably taught the boy too, ran to him immediately, and Holden adored him so much for this display of compassion.

I got this much and more out of the book by myself when I read it in high school. My essay got an A+ of course, I'm sorry if this was the first "big kid book" you were forced to read after just finishing the last Harry Potter book.

>> No.1686146

It got me into Stream-of-consciousness narrative back in High School, so for youngin's it mite b cool.

>> No.1686156

>>1686143
It's fucking irritating that you say "if you didn't like it, you didn't read it right".
Fuck you. That same teacher that you mention freaked Holden out enough by being "perverted" to him. So much so that he ran out of the house.
It's cute that you got a widdle A-pwuss though.
The book was a chore to read.

>> No.1686160

>>1686143

An A? In an American public high school?

Stop the fucking presses.

>> No.1686162

>>1686160
>angry european schoolboy with an irrational loathing towards all things american

>> No.1686166

>>1686162

>American dude who is now in a university admitting how fucken easy high school was

>> No.1686175

>>1686166
>no

>> No.1686183

>>1686175

No, sorry, that green text was meant to be a description of myself. High school was easy. I went to a public one in America. All anyone has to do to get an A in high school is wipe a blank piece of paper over their soiled asshole.

>> No.1686185

>>1686175
If you're the guy who posted >>1686143 then you are a douche. Nobody cares about your A+, your pseudo-analytical bullshit or your cocky fucking attitude towards this chan. Sir, I request you leave never to return.

>> No.1686198

>>1686107
O GOD this post
It kills me

>> No.1686200

>>1686143
Unless you where 15 at the time when you read this book, you will not find Catcher in the rye entertaining at all since you have to be in that age of rebellion to kinda like this if you past the age of 15 or so this book is rather boring and bland to read.

Also the use of I another negative thing that once your older you tend to hate reading.

>> No.1686208

You can't really relate with the main character unless you are a 15 year old once you're past that stage the catcher in the rye seems rather mundane and bland compared to other works.

>> No.1686210

i want to read ocean full of bowling balls real bad, one of yall in the princeton area just needs to grab that shit and book it out of the library they'll never catch you

>> No.1686215

>>1686208
>>1686200

16 year olds spotted.

Get the fuck out, dicks...

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1686219

>trolling
>on /lit/

>> No.1686223

>>1686200
>>1686208
Even at 15, i wasn't that much of a detached little shit. I never knew any one who was.

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>>1686219

Like taking candy from a 22-year-old Philosophy major.

>> No.1686230

>>1686215
well the book is indeed boring compare to other works like 1984 and Inferno,paradiso, or the trial.

>> No.1686239

>>1686230

NICE NAME DROPS THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH EACH OTHER, BRO.

>> No.1686240

>>1686230
Hell middlesex is a far better novelin my opinion than catcher in the rye which is a coming of age story..

>> No.1686244

>>1686240

eugenides blows

>> No.1686247

>>1686239
You're hurting in the gluteus maximus is showing bro.

>> No.1686253

>>1686244
I respect your opinion bro.

nothing wrong with not liking certain writers.

>> No.1686260

>>1686253
All i'm saying is that J.D. Salinger work, cathher in the rye is not fun or entertaining to read when you past that age of rebelliousness during teenage hood.

I fully comprehend that you might like this works but to me it's not worth reading since I'm not in that age bracket anymore just my personal opinion.

>> No.1686266

>>1686260
He didn't write it as a kid's book. Goddam.
You guys keep acting like you have to be a teenager to enjoy it. If that's the case then the book is a failure.
It's a neat book.
It's not a good book.

>> No.1687727

>>1686054
this

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>>1686247
>you're

>> No.1687988

>>1687727
No. Not that.
It's a moronic argument and a poor attempt to compromise without admitting that the book is overrated.

>> No.1688056

>>1687988
The book is shit it is as simple as that.

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1688074

I love it so much I keep a copy on me at all times

>> No.1689522

So...what IS a catcher in rye?
Is that some American baseball reference?

>> No.1689529

>>1689522
Stand at edge of field,catch falling kids ahh fuck it,its too stupid to explain

>> No.1689559

My brother, Allie, had this left handed fielder's mitt -he was left handed- and he wrote poems all over it. In green ink. He wrote them on there so he'd have something to read when he was in the outfield and no one was up to bat.
It's not actually a monologue from a play, but I used it as an audition piece when I was younger and on the theatre path. I can only remember it in approximation, and it goes through the part where he breaks out all the windows in the garage, but then at the end I get it mixed up with the end of "The Road", about forlorn rags and getting old...
anyway, yeah good book, I enjoyed it, but not the greatest. Salinger was an asshole, though, imho, but so what.

>> No.1689560

>>1689559
sorry, meant ON The Road

>> No.1689628

or what. but it's good

>> No.1689632

>>1689522

It's from a poem. By Rober Frostt, I think. Holden completely misinterprets it though, like everything else.

>> No.1689634

I read it when I was 15 and loved it, yeah. It's probably a good book but I don't know If I would enjoy it now.

>> No.1689663

I liked it very much when I read it. It really captured my state of mind at the moment (I was 16 I guess).
With all the hate on phonies and with him being the phoniest person in the book, and all the contradiction and unlogical thinking it seemed to me like a true, genuine damaged teenager.
But then again, everything that says "Life is shit" always captures me.
Also seemed like a good starter for The Trial.

>> No.1689788

But it was a good book. You cant deny that?
>Captcha: great erpons

>> No.1689810

>>1689788
That's what we've been saying. It's not "good"
interesting for a little while but not "good"
And anybody that felt like Holden as a teen needed to get their ass kicked.