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3219637 No.3219637 [Reply] [Original]

I'm 23 years old and I've never read Catcher in the Rye. Is this bad?

>> No.3219639

No. I haven't read it either, I'm going to read it right after I finish with the Count of Monte Cristo.

>> No.3219640

you're not missing out.

>> No.3219648

>>3219637
It's trendy to dismiss it but you do so only at your own peril. It's a lovely little book.

>> No.3219706

That would depend on what you've read/done with your life instead

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3219708

It's one of the finest American novels. Give it a shot.

>> No.3219715

It's good.

Salinger's other works? Not so much.

>> No.3219718

I read it when I was a teenager and though it was awful, but mostly just because I really hated the main character and wished he would just shut up.

>> No.3219719

>>3219715

>Roofbeams
>Franny & Zooey

>> No.3219728

if you are over the age of 20, you will probably fucking hate the protagonist's guts.

He is a complete and total fuck. The actual plot and pacing and everything is quite nice, but since it's written first-person, all the good stuff is kinda just coated in a layer of shit

>> No.3219748

>>3219728

What's more interesting than the plot or the pacing is Holden and why he is a 'complete and total fuck', and obviously so, while at other times a more tender and complex spirit. He'll be cruel and vulgar and then he'll feel this enormous sadness at the word 'fuck' scribbled on a wall that children might pass by.

It's very much about innocence and what it means to lose it - at the heart of that is a tragic story of death and coping with the loss of life, of love. Holden's one of the more interesting protagonists in the past century, given his many shades and what you can read into how he reacts to the world around him - a world largely blind to his own petty fear, his weak little cries of rebellion.

>> No.3219814

Just read it. It's short and an important work of American literature. And for what it's worth I first read it when I was 23 and I loved it.

>> No.3219818

>>3219637
imgoingtofuckiyouintheasswithmygianthorsedick