What is your honest opinion of this book?

Thats a pretty brainlet-tier conclusion

>Modern bullshit.
that's the point

I liked it when I read it but I don't remember enough of it to talk about it.

A sobering moment is the way Tom who calls himself Holden is presented in "The Good Girl" (2002). He ended up getting the girl so it may say more about the movie industry, but is that what mainstream society thinks about non-conformists? He seems like a psychopath.

I think that the people that hate it are lonely hypocritical pieces of shit, and they see that in the main character.

All I can ever see when I look at the cover is one of those rock elementals from WoW facing/walking towards the left

Oh fuck you, I haven't read the shit in years and that's my most basic recollection. Also, it's just the reason I personally didn't like it, I don't necessarily mean to say it's objectively bad.

(((reading))) is for nerds and homosexuals. Go back

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holden would so browse r9k

Brainlet tier interpretation: Holden represents anxiety or depression
Normalfag tier interpretation: Holden represents teen angst
Big brain tier interpretation: Salinger formalized Holden as a character in the early 1940's but the finished and published Catcher in the Rye did not appear until after WW2. Salinger saw extensive combat in WW2. Holden at least partially represents PTSD and the feeling of a soldier struggling to reconnect with society.

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He is not literally a catcher eating rye bread... it is more of a metaphor for his state of adolescent angst.

I dislike the book and think there are better novels to make mandatory reading. I think The Brothers Karamazov is a better story for confused adolescents to get a bearing.

i liked the book and holden is one of the fictional characters i identified the most with from any literature i ever read in my life (albeit i don't read many books)
his confusion and lack of understanding of the world steaming from his young age and mental issues were a fun reflection on myself, but also a fun ironic trip throughout the book, as while he remained a hypocrite (both admittedly to himself and otherwise) throughout the story he was still right to point the faults in others which his unique perspective allowed him to see
i'll probably read it again now thanks to this thread and see how my opinion of it holds up as a person who learned to judge themselves and understand the implication of their mental issues in themselves as an adult

I hated Holden a lot. He was so annoying and he was such a hypocrite about all the phony stuff. He was a little bitch and a failed normie so I don't care. He's the worst part about Jow Forums, the people that bitch like the angstiest teenager about their vapid problems and blame the wrong people for those problems. You're not a robot and a shit person if you look down on normies aka phonies. Just because someone is happier than you doesn't mean you have to cut them down in your mind. You don't have to like them, just live and let live if they're not directly hurting you. The only people that like Holden are the mountain dew guzzling 15 year olds that just learned about existentialism and think they're onto something no one has ever thought about.

Oh yeah I should also say that I do respect the idea of the catcher in the rye. This is the one thing in the book that I related and all robots do. We're always getting older and live gets progressively shittier. We're done for so all we can do is try to be comfy and loosely recapture what it's like to be a child so we can a nostalgia trip. A noble robot would try to protect the innocent but it's a fool's errand because all the young want to be is old and all the old want to be is young. Life's so fucking unfair.

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Only person in the thread who actually read the book

Honestly its not even worth reading.

Are you saying salinger is a bad writer, or that reading isn't worth the effort? I'm just trying to gauge how retarded you are.

entry level/baby's first tier, but necessary I think in the overall scheme of things. definitely there is better stuff to read but I think catcher in the rye is fine as it is for its entry level tier. for teens who most likely lacked any sense of introspection this was great for them as a first step on that path.

>there is better stuff to read

Like what?

Im saying the book isnt worth reading, in which case you are the retard since you lacked the reading comprehention to at least mention that in your post.

I bought it some years ago because I saw a quote of it in GitS, still sitting on the shelf unread tho. But I'll get around to it.

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reddit tier book for redditors who want to feel smart

I actually sort of liked the book. It is a good depiction of a person caught between childhood and adulthood. Holden is often quite childish; he cannot take responsibility for his actions and he is pretty lazy.
However, he also has child-like redeeming traits such as kindness and a desire to protect childhood innoncence.

I think these days a lot of teenagers cannot relate to Holden because Holden is not a typical teenager. Most teenagers want to grow up as fast as possible; either they engage in pseudo-mature behaviour like drinking, taking drugs or sex; or they study hard all the time and behave like little adults. These days, the concept of adolescence has been so firmly entrenched in the culture (it was not so when Salinger wrote the book) that teenagers often consciously wallow in a hedonistic pool of adolescence.

Holden is different. Holden does not want to be an adult. Holden does not like being a teenager. Aging frightens him. Holden admires the innocence and purity of childhood and he hates those who endanger that innocence.

I think a lot of mentally disturbed people relate to Holden because they are the kind of people who did not deal with leaving childhood well. Becoming an adult was a traumatic struggle for them.

Also, I suspect that childhood innocence today is not what it was in 1951. Middle and upper class white kids in the 1950s would have experienced innocence. At what age does a kid first see porn on a smartphone these days? 10, 11, 12? Even younger. The experience of Holden is somewhat specific to the time in that sense.

The book is hilarious. Already read it for three times. I specially like when he leaves the boarding school making such a mess. I guess Manu ppl hate it bc they were forced to read it as a teenager, so they associate it with bad thoughts.

It's a coming of age tale. In the end it more or less invalidates Holden's prior views of the world. Shitty, short read desu famalam

The main character was too alpha for me to relate to. Kind of wish I were him desu.

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