/lit/ - Literature

You have to have been a 16 year old boy at one point to understand this one

It wasn't bad but nothing happens. I'd heard it was very popular and controversial so I expected something to happen but literally nothing ever happens when you get bored with his shtick like halfway through and wait for something to happen. How did this get so popular to begin with?

yo whats all this about an "unreliable narrator" and shit? i been fuccin with Holden heavy thinkin he spittin straight fax about niggas bein phony and im 30yrs old
niggas gon and pulled the carpet from undaneath me with this shit. what i'm spose to do now?

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Trust me

how do you go from reading this to killing people?

Catcher in the Rye helped with my trauma from CSA. First time I've ever felt seen.

find a flaw

it's shit

Did Mr.Antolini try to groom him?

Why is this considered so controversial? It's literally just an edgy teenager doing retarded stuff and complaining about everything. There are no parts where you can tell they went over the edge or anything like that.
That part where talks about his brother was fucking depressing tho

Why is this considered controversial? It's literally just an edgy teenager doing retarded stuff and complaining about everything, which is basically what most teenagers do. Nothing unusual

i really enjoyed this book. what did you think of it?

I’m trying to help my super ADHD zoomer sister get organized before school starts. I want to recommend her an easy to read appealing book, more so as an exercise in concentration than for its literary merits, but if there’s anything both simple and meaningful that would be ideal. She’s 12 years old for reference. Any ideas? Pic related was my first thought.

What books were required reading for you in high school and what year did you graduate? Did any of those books stick with you into adulthood? Which ones were so awful you’d never read them again? Were there any books that you thought would be required reading, be it from adults or other media depicting required reading? I’d like to know what other schools required during certain time periods to compare and contrast.

>graduated 2014
>Of Mice and Men
>Anthem
>Romeo and Juliet
>The Odyssey
>Night
>To Kill a Mockingbird
>A Separate Peace
>O Pioneers
>All Quiet on the Western Front
>The Crucible
>Ethan Frome
>Scarlet Letter
>Fahrenheit 451
>Grapes of Wrath
>The Red Badge of Courage
>Huck Finn
>1984
>Maus I and II
>Frankenstein
>As I Lay Dying
>Hamlet

I feel like there’s probably more than this, but I can’t remember the rest for the life of me.
I also had my senior english teacher recommend Lolita outside of school, for obvious reasons. She said that was one book she wished she could teach in curriculum.
I walked away from high school really loving Ray Bradbury and really hating Ayn Rand. I think Frankenstein might have been my favorite thing I read in high school, it was really the perfect time to read it. There’s never as strong of a feeling of alienation and rejection and horror at your own body as when you’re a teenager, and I think Frankenstein really helped to put into words a lot of the insecurities I was personally feeling.
I also graduated thinking AILD was the greatest book ever written, but I was also an edgy little guy at the time and was fascinated with the morbidity and misery of it all.
I expected to have to read Catcher in the Rye, the Jungle, and Wuthering Heights- these seem like they’re still high school standard texts but they never made an appearance in my classes. Same goes for Brave New World, Lord of the Flies, any Hemingway, etc
One of my biggest surprises is that Moby Dick was not taught in my high school- I felt like I had heard so many adults and parents talking about what a slog it was to read in school but I’ve never met anyone my age who had it as required reading. The same goes for Billy Budd: we actually had a big book that had four different works in it and Billy Budd was at the end. I asked my teacher about it because I didn’t know anything about Melville at the time and she just sort of rolled her eyes at it. I wonder why that is…

Why do psychopaths and serial killers loves this book?

Is it actually worth reading, or is it just two hundred pages of logorrhea?
ESL here.

I'd never read it and wanted to see why people hate it so much. It seems like a fine book to me though.

Hey /lit/ I am turning 20 and I feel depressed right now. I need some books like The Stranger or Crime and Punishment so I can deeply relate. Right now I am in the state of not being able to communicate online anymore and starting to feel very sad again. I didn't speak for a whole day.

Ya phonies

Has there been any character in fiction that is as relatable as Holden?

What book to gift to a person who really likes J. D. Salinger?

>wow
>>bro
>everyone’s like SO phony bro
>my parents are like,
>phony
>and stuff
>and like SOCIETY…
>that shit’s SUPER phony
>bro..
(Proceeds to alter the cultural perspective of an entire generation and remains regarded as one of the paramount works of western culture by the mainstream)
Truly and without an ounce of irony,
Has there ever been a single MORE overrated book??