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Is this book actually good? What's up with all the fuzz around it? Between Orwell, Huxley, Poe, Kafka, Joyce, Wylde, Conrad, etc, is this still a book worth reading?

>> No.5087081
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NOT "RED" ENOUGH!

>> No.5087969

no

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>> No.5088002

The only people who should read this book is junior year high school students. And even then it's for no reason because it sucks.

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>>5087081

Hahaha.

Who is /lit/'s best trip and why is it CAPSBRO??

>> No.5088013

>>5088010
His name is Rei, poopass

>> No.5088033

>>5088013

Well, excuse do ReiME, fuckass.

>> No.5088048

OP: I'd say it's still worth reading, it's one of the few books that captures that short period where you think you're the king of the world almost perfectly. It annoys many people because it is too close for comfort with their own past.

A 300 page book with the same theme would be tedious, good thing it's so short. You can read it in a night.

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>>5088013
>>5088033

lol wrong faglets binary ghost of stan is best trip

kill ursel

>> No.5088799

>>5086996
No. It was just a book about teenage angst, published in a period when no such books existed.
And somehow made it to the canon.

>> No.5088815

>>5086996
I liked it, but it's overrated, I think.

The narrative with the slightly bat-shit insane guy talking endlessly in the first-person is the main attraction to the book, I think.

It's other themes are better served with other books, like The Sea Wolf.

>> No.5088821

>>5087081
Why has Rei turned into an insufferable autist who spends his time shillyshallying about on tumblr and spreading his faux wisdom like fairydust?

NOT "FED" ENOUGH!

>> No.5089956

>>5086996
>Orwell, Huxley, Poe, Kafka, Joyce, Wylde, Conrad

fucking stop namedropping it doesn't make you seem intelligent

>implying that's all not entry level stuff everybody read in high school lit classes

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>>5089956
>joyce
>high school lit

>> No.5090006

I wouldn't waste your time OP. I only read it recently, I went in expecting some immature, albeit well written social commentary from some edgy teen, but instead I got a dry story written with the mastery of a first grader and a bunch of stupid slang that made it feel like Clockwork Orange-lite. Pretty sure I wouldn't have liked it even if I did read it in highshcool.

>> No.5090015

>>5089956
This. Kafka's the only good one you listed anyways, and he's entry level as fuck.

>> No.5090024

>>5089956
You misspelled Wilde, and if James Joyce isn't the endboss of English Letters then I don't know who is.

>> No.5090039

>>5086996
This Salinger, he's a short story guy. And he knows how to write about kids. This book, though, it's too long. Gets kinds of monotonous. And he should have cut out a lot about these jerks and all at that crumby school. They depress me. They really do. Salinger, he's best with real children. I mean the ones like Phoebe, his kid sister. She's a personality. Holden and little Phoebe, Hel said, they kill me. This last part about her and this Mr. Antolini, the only guy Holden ever thought he could trust, who ever took any interest in him, and who turned out queer -- that's terrific. I swear it is.

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>>5089960
>joyce
>lit

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I read it in early high school and only enjoyed it because the semi-autist narrator was relatable to an anxious, awkward teen. I'm not sure that I would enjoy it if I read it again.

Then again, it's a relatively easy read and you'd be better off reading it for yourself rather than asking strangers on the 'net.

>> No.5090113

>>5088048
>It annoys many people because it is too close for comfort with their own past.

I highly doubt that. If this book is even remotely accurate for most people then most people were more stupid as teenagers than I assumed.

>> No.5090127

>>5090039
He wasn't coming on to Holden, I don't think. It was Holden projecting his latent homosexuality onto him. Note how often Holden complains about shit that he later does himself. He's the biggest hypocrite in the book.

>> No.5090138

>>5086996
that book rules when you reread it as an adult

>> No.5090172

>>5090138
I'm 54 and it still sucks, sorry junior.

>> No.5090723

Had to read it in English class. Pretty much hated everything about it.

>> No.5090737

If you're expecting this to be as good as any of the authors you said, you're going to be disappointed.
I read it recently and did enjoy reading it, but it's overrated, it really is.

>> No.5090755

>>5090172

God I hope I'm not fucking still on 4chan when I'm 54. Fuck off, dad.

>> No.5090761

I thought what I'd do was, pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.

>> No.5090781

>>5087972
What is the source of this epic /lit/ meme?