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Why do psychopaths and serial killers loves this book?

>> No.22181344

>>22181340
Well you see it is because- wait a minute. Nice try FBI. I have no idea why they do.

>> No.22181349

>>22181340
Probably because its a book about a self absorbed teenager and most psychopaths have the mentality of a self absorbed 14 year old and have 0 capacity to put themselves in the shoes of another.

>> No.22181357

>>22181340
They take it at face value.

>> No.22181360

>>22181349
You are supposed to realize he's a retard and has no idea what he's talking about. He doesn't even know what the word "phony" means.

>> No.22181767

>>22181360
Right but idiot psychopaths don't have that realization.

>> No.22181791

>>22181349
you never read the book dumb nigger. If you did you would realise it's actually the opposite. People can't put themselves(or don't have the mental capacity) in the shoes of a traumatized, abused 14 year old so they call the book shit.

Dumb cunt go read something that's not fucking game of thrones

>> No.22181801

A cute little girl is in the book

>> No.22181842

>>22181791
>if this is his reaction about my review of catcher in the rye, he'll have a heart attack when he finds out what I think about jack kerouac's 'on the road'

>> No.22181867

>>22181791
How is he abused and traumatized?

>> No.22181902

>>22181340
same reason they like bible
author is a jew

>> No.22181910

>>22181867
His brother, which he loved very much, died when Holden was still young. It's said in chapter 1 and it's a current theme through all the book.

>> No.22181912

>>22181910
Constant theme*
oops

>> No.22181957 [DELETED] 

>>22181910
And in chapter two he gets invited to his history teacher who appears to be ready to make him write something reasonable in place of his stupid ass essay on account of his immense privilege, so that he doesn't have to be expelled after all and he bullshit his way out.

>> No.22181968

>>22181910
And in chapter two he gets invited to his history teacher who appears to be ready to make him write something reasonable in place of his stupid ass essay on account of his immense privilege, so that he doesn't have to be expelled after all and he bullshits his way out.

>> No.22183158

>>22181910
FFS try to reread it. It's so inconsistent that it isn't clear if allie actually lived in the first place. He's a retard.

>> No.22183163

>>22181340
MK Ultra programming

>> No.22183202

>>22183158
>My brother D.B.'s a writer and all, and my brother Allie, the one that died, that I told you about, was a wizard.

Literally in page 10

>> No.22183208

>>22183158
>He got leukemia and died when we were up in Maine, on July 18, 1946. You'd have liked him. He was two years younger than I was, but he was about fifty times as intelligent.

Page 6. Are you illiterate?

>> No.22183661 [DELETED] 

>>22183208
Are you? How wrong in your head do you have to be to not notice that there isn't something quite right with what he says? Can you only read individual sentences? They don't follow a normal train of thought. The times, dates, people's ages range from improbable to impossible. His observations of everything and everyone is entirely superficial and inane.
>all that David Copperfield kind of crap
What could be so David Copperfield about his childhood?
He writes it from some kind of institution on the opposite side of the country.
That add, it seems it could be some kind of visual metaphor, and an euphism.
People do treat him retarded. Why would anyone not move checker kings? More likely she does it to handicap herself when she plays with retard Holden. Or that elevator boy. He doesn't know him, and won't let him in, but probably realizes it's the stupid Holden once he gives his nonsensical excuse.

>> No.22183667 [DELETED] 

>>22183208
Are you? How wrong in your head do you have to be to not notice that there isn't something quite right with what he says? Can you only read individual sentences? They don't follow a normal train of thought. The times, dates, people's ages range from improbable to impossible. His observations of everything and everyone is entirely superficial and inane.
>all that David Copperfield kind of crap
What could be so David Copperfield about his childhood?
He writes it from some kind of institution on the opposite side of the country.
The add, it seems it could be some kind of visual metaphor, and an euphism.
People do treat him retarded. Why would anyone not move checker kings? More likely she does it to handicap herself when she plays with retard Holden. Or that elevator boy. He doesn't know him, and won't let him in, but probably realizes it's that stupid Holden once he gives his nonsensical excuse.

>> No.22183672

>>22183208
Are you? How wrong in your head do you have to be to not notice that there isn't something quite right with what he says? Can you only read individual sentences? They don't follow a normal train of thought. The times, dates, people's ages range from improbable to impossible. His observation of everything and everyone is entirely superficial and inane.
>all that David Copperfield kind of crap
What could be so David Copperfield about his childhood?
He writes it from some kind of institution on the opposite side of the country.
The add, it seems it could be some kind of visual metaphor, and an euphism.
People do treat him retarded. Why would anyone not move checker kings? More likely she does it to handicap herself when she plays with retard Holden. Or that elevator boy. He doesn't know him, and won't let him in, but probably realizes it's that stupid Holden once he gives his nonsensical excuse.

>> No.22183697

>>22181910
I had a brother die when I was younger and I’m not as much of a faggot as holden, I am still a fag however

>> No.22183721

>>22181340
worries worried wants to know where the ducks go in the winter (duh- when it's the day to drain the duck pond it is always a cold and gray november day, the kind the WYYY engineer gets scooped up and put in a van on)

because everyone who is an equipment manager for a team becomes a criminal, the more violent the sport is the more violent the crimes. holden had issues with his dick because he's "holden" while "caulfield" is an allusion to forced sterilization within the new york community at that time, especially when Sanger, who herself carried around "The Way of the Pilgrim" in her back pocket, was actively on her vigilantriiy crusade. the foils are the exact number of partners, or actualy foibles he will encounter in the book, all lost on the subway, coming back to him as manifested dna from metal which draws on the bohemian sound, man, youi dig.

leave britnery spears ari lone right NAUUUUUU

>> No.22183879

>>22183697
Where you when you were 16 yo?

>>22183672
Your theory of "Allie isn't dead" is more retarded than the "He rapes his sister, Phoebe" theory.
From now on, I will write on every single Catcher in the Rye post "He rapes his sister, Phoebe. And Allie never died."

>> No.22183881

>>22181340
He rapes his sister, Phoebe. And Allie never died.

>> No.22183915

>>22183879
>He rapes his sister, Phoebe
She is obviously much more mature than him. The plot of the movie she tells him about goes over his head.

>> No.22183965

Also, I think it's kind of implied that they took her to that movie exactly because her brother is that hopelessly retarded.

>> No.22184945

>>22181340
the phonies are people who swore an oath and joined the government to keep everyone else in slavery

>> No.22185898
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22185898

>>22181340
They don't, they're just copying the earlier killers, who themselves got accidentally trolled into adopting Catcher in the Rye as a sort of psychopath's signature literature, like a calling card, because the first one didn't care about the book or even read it; he just arbitrarily happened to accidentally have a copy on his person when they got him.

>tl;dr: The catcher in the Rye is a sort of knowing "wink & nudge" calling card, a literal meme for killers

>> No.22187301 [DELETED] 

>>22185898
I think so too. Salinger just hit the nail on the head. They have always been like that.

>> No.22187313

>>22183915
https://files dot catbox dot moe slash yukmqt dot pdf

>> No.22187314

>>22185898
I think so too. Salinger just hit the nail on the head. They have always been like that.
It isn't meant to be read that way though, it's supposed to be a book about a retard and the beautiful society which refuses to give up on him.

>> No.22187340

Are books like Catcher even deep enough to pull bigger meaning out of it? I read it a long time ago and liked it I guess. Would be it worth reading as a 44 year old? I am sort of wondering why people like these types of books. Similar to Stoner what was the point? Constant acceptance of failure?

Books like Anna Karenina or Crime and Punishment give me more of a magical, deep thoughts that I frame into my life and learn lessons.

>> No.22187448

>>22187340
It's a story about a retard, described from the point of view of the retard. I think it's a completely unique book.

>> No.22188333

It just hits different to the alienated and disturbed mind. It’s a flawless work of genius anyway. You simply wouldn’t get it.