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Not OT for the thread, but you’re not alone with Catcher in the Rye. I first read it in my 20s and just did not like it at all. I’ve got friends who say that it
by mplanchard 7y ago
Not OT for the thread, but you’re not alone with Catcher in the Rye. I first read it in my 20s and just did not like it at all. I’ve got friends who say that it helps to have read it as a teenager, because it’s easier to identify with Holden, but man, reading it now I just get so tired of his whining.
I’m going to keep trying, probably, because so far it’s one of the only big classics I haven’t liked. Anyway, maybe we’re both idiots!
- ci5er 7y agoHa! I started in my mid-teens. I was told: "It changed my life!". I've read it every three years or so (even for the decade-plus that I've lived out of the US, once in Japanese!), and ... I just don't get it. I probably don't get Moby Dick either, but I find it to be remarkably funny, and not a whiney teenager, so I'm going to give it a pass. Thanks for the comment. I have a bit of a hang-up about how much I don't get "The Great American Novel" (as a born-and-bred rural American, I should get those, you know? :-) )