/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.22679848]

how do you go from reading this to killing people?

[Anonymous No.22679852]

what

[Anonymous No.22679855]

>>22679848
It's a very terrible book.

[Anonymous No.22679882]

Main character syndrome

[Anonymous No.22679940]

>>22679855
>>22679882
I think it's funny

[Anonymous No.22679970]

Yeah, it's weird, Holden isn't even a weirdo, social reject or anything like that. He's just an angsty fuck with ocasional feelings of kindness and love. Don't know that makes you want to shoot up people

[Anonymous No.22680010]

>>22679852
It's a perverse Masonic ritual codebook and CIA programmed shooters always seem to have them.
Probably just a coincidence though.
Terrible book. Not for kids.

[Anonymous No.22680014]

>>22680010
>Not for kids.
Elaborate on that

[Anonymous No.22680038]

>>22680010
Any good books on CIA programming? I want to understand brainwashing.

[Anonymous No.22680048]

I've seen the CIA meme for Catcher in the Rye and The Doors lol they do have a similar vibe of being based around total nihilistic egoism but that doesn't scream CIA to me for whatever reason

[Anonymous No.22680106]

>>22680014
Written by a pedophile CIA interrogator. Riddled with dirty innuendo.
UK undercover spy Roald Dahl made good honest children's lit though.

[Anonymous No.22680144]

ITT people who didn't remotely understand the book

[Anonymous No.22680150]

>>22679848
repetition
they had two of those yesterday. it's a problem you can solve, anon.

[Anonymous No.22681107]

>>22679848
It's entirely plausible the guy just didn't like John Lennon, probably due to that Christmas song.

[Anonymous No.22681118]

>>22679848
A lot of disturbed people have a very hard time transitioning from childhood to adolescence to adulthood. Their disturbed nature becomes apparent around the cusp of adolescence.

Holden is not like other teenagers. Most teenagers want to leave childhood behind; they engage in pseudo mature behaviour like fucking or taking drugs. Breaking rules and rebelling. Either that or actually mature behaviour like studying, working and saving money for uni.

Holden is not like that at all. He idolises childhood innocence. Longs to go back to being a child. Catching kids before they fall off. He hates the fake ness of the adult world.

People who could not cope with leaving childhood behind relate to him.

[Anonymous No.22682706]

>>22680144
Few understand it. Such

[Anonymous No.22682759]

>>22679848
>how do you go from reading this to killing people?
You start crazy and then blame the book later.

[Anonymous No.22682769]

>>22680048
>total nihilistic egoism but that doesn't scream CIA to me
Really? The same organisation that created the hippie movement out of whole cloth?

[Anonymous No.22682770]

>>22679848
You put the book down and kill someone?

[Anonymous No.22682803]

>>22679848
>people
John Lennon was a communist, he wasn't a real person.

[Anonymous No.22683147]

>>22679848
lol filtered

[Anonymous No.22683180]

>>22679848
You listen to imagine after and realise John Lennon is a insufferable hippie

[Anonymous No.22684044]

>>22680038
https://www.empty-memories.nl/science/greenbaum.pdf
this is a lecture given to a group of psychiatrists specializing in MPD (multiple personality disorder) in 1992, which has come to known as "the greenbaum speech." it's hard to get from reading the pdf, but it was a very powerful speech because it essentially confirmed the suspicions of everyone in the room - that some seriously fucked up shit was going on with their clients.
Hammond was the only one brave enough to actually say anything about it. he went silent for like 20 years after this, though, and later spoke of how he recieved death threats following the speech. it's a very good read

[Anonymous No.22685769]

>>22679848
He rapes his sister, Phoebe.

[Anonymous No.22685827]

It's a fine book, I don't see the issue

[Infinite Jest No.22686600]

The realization that you're hopelessly overeducated and that people find it hilarious that you're fucked and will never not be.