I hope you're happy now, you killed J.D. Salinger with your capslocks! D:
Seriously though, I am also in the fucking hate it category. I read it when I was about 13, so supposedly the right age to identify with Holden's bullshit and even then I thought he was a complete jackass.
I also didn't believe anyone has *ever* talked the way he did in the book -- I just couldn't get past how totally artificial the writing was. It was so obviously written if you know what I mean, in that annoying self-congratulatory New Yorker my aren't we real writers writing real lit-er-a-ture style that I have no time for at all. Another something I don't have time for? Rich privileged white boys in the 1950s boo-hooing about how the world is so unfair to them. Screw you Holden and while we're at it, screw you too Jim Stark in Rebel without a Cause.
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I hope you're happy now, you killed J.D. Salinger with your capslocks! D:
Seriously though, I am also in the fucking hate it category. I read it when I was about 13, so supposedly the right age to identify with Holden's bullshit and even then I thought he was a complete jackass.
I also didn't believe anyone has *ever* talked the way he did in the book -- I just couldn't get past how totally artificial the writing was. It was so obviously written if you know what I mean, in that annoying self-congratulatory New Yorker my aren't we real writers writing real lit-er-a-ture style that I have no time for at all. Another something I don't have time for? Rich privileged white boys in the 1950s boo-hooing about how the world is so unfair to them. Screw you Holden and while we're at it, screw you too Jim Stark in Rebel without a Cause.