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/lit/ I just finished catcher in the rye for the first time. I felt like it was the most anticlimactic ending, and it didn't resolve anything for me. I really liked holden as a character, and I found a lot of points which I could have related to in my teenage years. However, I don't see how it is so much different from any other coming of age story, let alone how it is considered a "timeless classic" What are your thoughts on this? I simply don't think it's as great as it's made out to be

>> No.3464460

I hate that piece of trash, I wrote cock with capital letters on it with a magic marker. That's how much I hate it.

>> No.3464462

was assigned this book in hs but i remember nothing from the book except the first 2-3 pages. probably should re-read it

>> No.3464465

>>3464460
3edge5me

>> No.3464466

>>3464460
So edgy

>> No.3464467

>>3464462
holden is a whiny faggot, there I summarised it

>> No.3464471

Nobody says you HAVE to love the book. This is coming from someone who considers Catcher to be his favorite novel.

It would have helped more to read it a bit younger. It has a lot of magic when you're young.

>> No.3464498

Why is it that people who complain about Holden being whiny are usually the whiniest faggots ever?

>> No.3464502

Why is there no middle ground for Catcher in the Rye? Everybody either loves this book to the point of obsession or vehemently hates it. It's a good novel about youth that's probably a bit over-rated, nothing more or less.

>> No.3464530

i'm too edgy for this book

>> No.3464533

>>3464498
It's because of self hate and the resulting edge which comes from that hate.

>> No.3464556

what needed resolving? holden never dealt with the death of his brother and so he ended up in a mental hospital

end of story

>> No.3464798

>>3464460
You should've wrote "fuck you" on it.

>> No.3464820

How was the ending anticlimactic? Leading up to it he was about to run away from his problems (which would have probably caused more ones in the long run) and he hates everything.

After he seems to find the tiniest bits of humility hope and optimism and seems to not hate everything so much. He decides to try, and finds a little bit of joy in some things. That's how I interpreted it, anyway (although I'm in the loved it category of people).

>> No.3464830

>>3464457
I didn't finish reading this book when I picked it up. Holden is a whiny, spoiled hypocrite(hating "phonies" while clearly acting as one, as he describes it, himself). Also, I absolutely loathe authors who feel they can't portray an edgy teenage character without making him swear up a storm.
I honestly didn't know there was a plot to be resolved. It doesn't really surprise me that it's ending doesn't.

>> No.3464840

Fag

>> No.3464851

It's an internal conflict.

All the whiny swearings and the hypocriticalness of the main character are precisely why I enjoyed the story so much. Holden's hilarious.

>> No.3464974

>>3464830
So you don't like it because you realize holdens internal conflict which is more or less the entire point of writing the entire book in stream of consciousness? and you also didn't like it because the main character uses swear words, while also not realizing that it had a plot,

just checking

>> No.3465296

bump just because this books great

>> No.3465304

>>3464502
Most likely because of it being over-rated. There's so much hype around it being a classic it's blown out of proportion; when kids (or adults) read it for the first time they end up confused, thinking it was going to be more than just an angsty kid going through life. I remember when I read it in hs, every time I turned the page I was waiting for it to suddenly get better. It never did so I was left disappointed and pissed off that this was one of our necessary readings. I have yet to read it again.

>> No.3465330

>>3464471
>It has a lot of magic when you're young.

and bad influence too.

>> No.3465342

>>3464471
>It has a lot of magic when you're young.

See, I really love Catcher, but I feel the exact opposite. There's too many young people, I think, who read Catcher and see Holden as some kind of anti-establishment hero. But the real beauty of the story is in Holden's flaws.

>> No.3465365

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R66LLOins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI1sL7Ceo

>> No.3465396

>>3464457

Read it when I was a teen, by the end all I could think was "Why is Holden such a whiny sack of shit?"

Re-read it when I was older, because maybe I dunno age or something something. Still wondered "Why is Holden such a whiny sack of shit?"

Personally, I'm convinced it's a "coming of age" book better suited for early teens. I think I would've liked it more, if I'd read it around the time I'd watched Evangelion. But nowadays I don't have enough angst to stomach either of 'em.

>> No.3465589

man judging people is retard, but judging the characters of a book is also more retard
do you even live?