Tropers not knowing you're not supposed to like Holden Caulfield

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• glennmagusharvey

  2015-08-01 03:37:50

  I neither disliked nor liked him.
  
  I don't think I understood narrative when I read it anyway lol
  
• Bee

  2015-08-01 05:54:45

  I thought the point was about clinical depression and how adults are scum.
  
• Calica

  2015-08-01 06:24:55

  Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.

  actually, phonies are good
• glennmagusharvey

  2015-08-01 07:30:31 edited 2015-08-01 07:34:03

  phony shun is the name of an actual culture in literary history
  
  and here we have this giant enemy bookban, you attack its cultural distance for one lone instance of fuckage
  
• Alduin

  2015-12-31 06:35:19

  I thought the point of the book was to show us the wacky adventures of an emo kid with rich parents.
• Odradek

  2015-12-31 22:28:52

  My dreams exceed my real life

  Acererak said:

  I thought the point of the book was to show us the wacky adventures of an emo kid with rich parents.

  No.
• One-Winged Eagle

  2016-01-01 00:23:12

  Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.

  Okay, so why does it matter that we're not "supposed" to like him, if people do actually like him anyway?

  
  

  The author is fucking dead, folks.
• Bee

  2016-01-01 00:38:02 edited 2016-01-01 00:38:12

  If we're not supposed to like him, he probably would've put at least some token effort into making literally anyone else in the story likable or even remotely relatable.
• Obā-san

  2016-01-01 00:38:40

  
  

  MachSpeed said:

  Okay, so why does it matter that we're not "supposed" to like him, if people do actually like him anyway?

  
  

  The author is fucking dead, folks.

  you know, this is what i was thinking when this thread resurfaced
• Odradek

  2016-01-01 00:43:29

  My dreams exceed my real life

  https://heapershangout.com/index.php?p=/discussion/9110/you-re-not-supposed-to-like-him/p1
• MetaFour

  2016-01-01 15:37:32

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  Bee said:

  If we're not supposed to like him, he probably would've put at least some token effort into making literally anyone else in the story likable or even remotely relatable.

  I'm about 1/3 through it right now. I don't trust a single damn word Caulfield says. Dude lies to everyone around him, so why would he give the straight story to me?
• Klinotaxis

  2016-01-01 17:57:50

  kill living beings
  

  his sister was likeable, wasn't she
  
• Crystal

  2016-01-01 18:11:46

  Munch munch, chomp chomp...

  Yeah, Holden thinks rather highly of Phoebe. I think another girl too? Jane?
• Obā-san

  2016-01-01 18:23:01

  
  

  never trust straight boys
• Odradek

  2016-01-01 18:35:34

  My dreams exceed my real life

  Has anyone noticed those thinkpieces about hipster bros that are all clearly written by hipster chicks bitter about their exes and hipster dudes trying to score points with hipster chicks? Because those are terrible.
• MetaFour

  2016-01-01 18:40:36

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  Baldanders said:

  Has anyone noticed those thinkpieces about hipster bros that are all clearly written by hipster chicks bitter about their exes and hipster dudes trying to score points with hipster chicks? 

  No. In fact...

  Baldanders said:

  Has anyone noticed those thinkpieces about hipster[s] 

  No.
• Klinotaxis

  2016-01-01 18:41:02

  kill living beings
  

  No.
  
  One time I flipped through a book of literary analysis of Catcher, and the only essay/"thinkpiece" I remember was the one that claimed it was about Zen.
  
• Odradek

  2016-01-01 18:41:39

  My dreams exceed my real life

  http://www.theawl.com/2014/09/a-portrait-of-the-alt-bro-as-a-young-dumbass
• Obā-san

  2016-01-01 18:42:11

  
  

  Klinotaxis said:

  One time I flipped through a book of literary analysis of Catcher, and the only essay/"thinkpiece" I remember was the one that claimed it was about Zen.
  

  that'd be something
• Odradek

  2016-01-01 18:42:28

  My dreams exceed my real life

  http://www.theawl.com/2015/08/the-bro-of-the-system
• Klinotaxis

  2016-01-01 18:46:45

  kill living beings
  

  I am so glad I googled this.
  
• Obā-san

  2016-01-01 18:49:13

  
  

  Klinotaxis said:

  I am so glad I googled this.
  

  this makes me actually kinda want to read this book

  
  

  onto the endless reading list it goes
• Crystal

  2016-01-01 18:50:40

  Munch munch, chomp chomp...

  Ahh, the book's got a special place in my heart. Thanks Klinoloser.
• Salix Babylonika

  2016-01-01 20:07:25

  https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg

  I was the same age as Caulfield when I read it and I basically loathed every second of that book.

  
  

  There were several better novels I read that year.
• Salix Babylonika

  2016-01-01 20:07:41

  https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg

  it is however responsible for one of Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire's best lines.