/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.21941049]

The book is kinda juvenile but at the same time it's not, I enjoyed reading it and I really liked the main character and his experiences, I feel like the book is more about some heavy stuff than just the common problems of adolescence itself. I could actually feel Holden loneliness and enter his thoughts and memories while reading it.
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.”
I wish I could call this character.

[Anonymous No.21941079]

>>21941049
I like the book too.

[Anonymous No.21941086]

>>21941049
love the book
protagonist felt so real

[Anonymous No.21941104]

>>21941049
It's not kind of juvenile. You don't need a disclaimer to like one of the better books ever written.

[Anonymous No.21941180]

>>21941049
>The book is kinda juvenile
It might seem that way but Salinger wrote it for adults in mind

[Anonymous No.21941210]

>>21941049
So why'd he actually turn down the prostitute?
Fear of sex?
Feeling bad for her?

[Anonymous No.21941228]

>>21941049
bro you weren't supposed to relate..

[Anonymous No.21941247]

>>21941049
The emptiest scribbles I've ever read, utterly insipid, a waste of paper and ink.
Some kind of a twisted idea of an adult and inert person about what kind of stream of consciousness is going through the head of a teenager. Thought forms and thinking itself is at the level of a mentally retarded mongrel. Wow, someone decided to give the floor to the most conditional underage cunt after damaging his frontal lobes and sending him for a walk with a voice recorder taped to the fucker with electrical tape.
Big fucking deal, what now?
How the fuck is this considered the golden fund of world literature?

[Anonymous No.21941260]

>>21941247
I'm interested in the books you like. Name one, anon, and I'll judge it if I can.

[Anonymous No.21941266]

>>21941247
It explores the depressed part of a child's mind. Children's books are always happy but this one is pretty important because of it.

[Anonymous No.21941326]

>>21941260
Just one? For example, The Master and Margarita.
>>21941266
It doesn't explore shit, just lays out an absolutely meaningless and empty diary of a conditional teenager through the eyes of a mediocre author. There's zero literary worth to this.

[Anonymous No.21941339]

>>21941247
Did you even read the book? The actual thing is just a conversation between an unnamed psychiatrist and Holden, he's pretty much just relating his memories of the period he's describing in the book.
I'm sick of these fucking retards that look at every piece of art in the shallowest way possible and still believe their opinion is even worth the thought.
>>21941326
Look at this fucking phony.

[Anonymous No.21941380]

>>21941339
Too bad these particular scribbles are the epitome of shallowness and not worth the thought in the first place.

[Anonymous No.21941529]

>>21941380
You are incorrect

Catcher has some very vivid, very memorable, scenes. It's a modern classic and possibly the most famous book in English written since

[Anonymous No.21941544]

>>21941339
Nobody likes you

[Anonymous No.21941661]

Its juvenile because it's written from the perspective of a child. It's one of the reasons I like Salinger so much because he really understands the behaviors and speech(at least for that time) of children and uses it to create this interesting dynamic between the characters and the reader. As an adult reading it you might think it's juvenile but a kid might read it and completely understand where Holden is coming from. It's so interesting to see the split between adult readers and younger readers in their interpretation of the book, and its probably one of the reasons it's so highly regarded.

[Anonymous No.21941686]

>>21941661
>didnt read it as a kid so i'll never have the other perspective

[Anonymous No.21941912]

>>21941049
David Copperfield is better.