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Nothing happens - the book

>> No.21272212

>>21272069
He rapes his sister, Phoebe.

>> No.21272242

>>21272069
You're kind of right. Catcher is a masterpiece not because of plotting but because its central character is so perfectly realized. Anyway, you should read Nine Stories, it's a wonderful book also.

>> No.21272289

>>21272069
t. foney

>> No.21272304

>>21272069
plots are for sissies

>> No.21272708

>>21272069
true

>> No.21272712

>>21272069
Catcher in the rye? I hardly know her!

>> No.21272721

>>21272069
Should I read this? Is it good?

>> No.21272860

>>21272069
>Nothing happens
"Your English teacher assigns you to read a waste of time" is what actually happens.

>> No.21272906

>>21272304
This.

>> No.21272970

>>21272069
Pretty much this >>21272242.
The book hinges on what the character is thinking while experiencing relatively normal things for upper class kids like himself. He's dishonest but honest, impure but innocent, and he has no idea how to deal with anything that's happening in his life. Nobody has ever actually equipped him with the tools he needs to navigate his own emotions. And despite the fact that most can't actually relate to him, he's easy to relate with.

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21273098

>>21272069
But you need to read it to truly appreciate Bojack Horseman, the epic of our era.

>> No.21273656

>>21272212
He does?

>> No.21274448

>>21272069
>visits a former teacher
>goes drinking and dancing with a couple floozies
>gets a visit from a hooker
>gets beat up by a pimp
>visits another former teacher
>visits his sister
>goes to a carnival
Those are seven things just off the top of my head.

>> No.21274712

>>21272212
I still can’t get over that chapter.

>> No.21275009

>>21273656
Yes, he does in graphic detail.

>> No.21275049

>>21272069
It’s a book about teenage angst. Of course nothing happens, that’s the point.

>> No.21276100

>>21275049
>Of course nothing happens, that’s the point.
Most people already know since they read it, but this is /lit/.

>> No.21276492

>>21272212
>rape

>> No.21276698

>>21272069
There are two types of people in this world. Those who identify with Holden's own awkward takes on the phony world outside, and even decades later realize they'll always hold true, and those who believe it's a "phase" of "teenage angst".

>> No.21277627

>>21272069
I read it once about 15 years ago, from what I remember it was about the loss of innocence, how everybody was unauthentic and corrupt.
It's about how he wanted to regain the state of hope he had while optimistically innocent and preserve children in this permanent state.

>> No.21277689

>>21276492
He does, you need to reaf the book.