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[ERROR] No.29136[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

>Wow Holden, in the end you have truly become the catcher in the rye.

Really Salinger?

>> No.29154

>>29136
>wahh i can't self actualize in this post war world where young men no longer come of age so i gave up my cushy life at boarding school like a little brat

I hated this book even in 7th grade.

>> No.29231

>>29136
I was reading this in public a couple of years ago and a girl next to me said it was a good book, so yeah you could say I'm not a loser anymore

>mfw when I just quietly shook my head and whisper "yeah" then walked off

>> No.29234

>they wanted to wave farewell to their arms as the land mines blew them to pieces but they couldn't because they had no arms to wave with anymore
too much, Hemingway. too much.

>> No.29287

>And in the end Oedipa witnessed the crying of lot 49.

I thought you guys said Pynchon was a good author?

>> No.29375

>Odysseus, you have had quite the odyssey. In fact, you could even call it THE odyssey!

Why do we start with the Greeks again?

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I actually enjoyed this book

>> No.29760

>>29540
>And in the end he embraced his destiny and became Gatsby, and it was great.

Fuck off Twain.

>> No.30744

>>29760
is this a /lit/ meme?

>> No.31652

>And the Lord said unto Moses, "Thou must say goodbye, to the old Testament."
Really, God?

>> No.31689

>>29136
Did Holden hold the barbell suicide grip?

>> No.32047

>and T'sain said, the Earth is truly dying
Vance needs to DELET THIS

>> No.32108

>"But as we all know, every Crime must have it's Punishment. "
Woooow

>> No.32145

>>29136

I never read this book and never want to, and I always think "Catcher In The Rye" refers to a baseball team's catcher that is lost in a wheat field or some shit.

>> No.32233

“ All these years and you're still LOOKING FOR ALASKA?”
Green you hack

>> No.32289

>>32145
That is exactly what the book is about.