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"Used 'The Catcher in the Rye' for a PowerPoint style book report in my Freshman year, and my teacher added at the end that it uses older language and further advised my peers that most wouldn't like it."
"I want to give Holden a hug and tell him everything will be ok. Anyone who does not have this opinion is soulless. He is a young victim of how horrible and unforgiving life can be (also I missed the allusion to him being molested or at the very least inappropriately approached by adults before Antol"
"the catcher in the rye thread mentioned a reading of holden's character as secretly having sexual desires for his sister which couldn't be more r-worded…….I've seen this take with taxi driver too. why do critics think the most scandalous hamfisted reading is the most correct?"
"Writing all this out, I realize I'm going Holden Caufield mode and am not original in my realization."
"Feeding ducks in the park. It's made me cry the last two times I've done it"
"the catcher in the rye thread mentioned a reading of holden's character as secretly having sexual desires for his sister which couldn't be more r-worded"
"Elsewhere I've seen people say that don't like Blood Meridian because the characters do bad things, or the classic "Holden Caulfield is a whiny loser!" I'm serious, go to r/books and read any of these threads, it's fucking insane. A favorite of mine is a guy who dismissed catcher in the rye entirely"
"Men's favorite book: _The Rye Effect: What Entrepreneurs Can Learn from Agriculture's Most Unlikely Success Story_"
"on my holden caufield shit"
"Where the fuck are jd salingers books"
"i just wrote up a really long, really gay and self important holden caulfield ass post about my psyche"
"Berserk volume 1, Shuna's Journey by Hayao Miyazaki, the copy of catcher in the rye my 100 year old former landlord gave me."
"3-No way Salinger ever wrote anything more related to Holden. Too much baggage."
"I took too much aderrall and wrote a 12 page essay about catcher in the rye"
"Oh, you hate Catcher in the Rye? Why? Because Holden Caulfield was Jewish? (He was, textually) Oh he complained too much? hmm sounds like an antisemitic stereotype..."
"rereading Catcher in the Rye post-adolescence, I don't relate to Holden at all anymore, but I get pangs of regret wishing I was a better older brother. something about seeing this lonely, angry kid who had the opportunity to have a true mentor ripped from him by leukemia makes me despise myself"