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[loosechanj]

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Wow, an update! I just finished Catcher in the Rye. Boy, I can understand why suckswhen couldn't stand Holden. Incredibly negative outlook. I remember being just like that, during most of my life. It's what depression does to you. You could tell he really loved his sister though, and the ending was pretty intense, even if it really was just an arbitrary place to end the story.

Aaaaaaaaand...that's about it. So far almost nothing of note has happened to me. Except I lost another chunk of tooth, and I'm willing to bet my dentist is going to say it needs a crown. (Sad face)

On to Bukowski's "Post Office" now. Hasta.

Edit: Holy shit, lookit all the bantowns. This my friends, is why you screen non-friends.

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[thewrongcrowd.livejournal.com]

Woohoo! Twenty-five... just ahead of anonymous. hehe

Been years since I read Catcher, but I remember thinking "what the hell's the point?". Eh maybe it's a guy thing.

[homunculus.livejournal.com]

wow, i'm still the winnar!!

yeah, wasn't so much his negative outlook that bothered me, but the way he treated people. i guess a negative outlook will have that effect a lot of the time, but still bothered me. i didn't feel the ending was intense, it felt like he just went on with his life. i guess he got a couple valuable pieces of advice, though. and yeah, his attitude toward children was his only redeeming quality in my view.

here's to hoping it's just a crown and not a root canal.

[homunculus.livejournal.com]

p.s. what is my priez!?!

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

My eternal fartitude.

[rockit-grl.livejournal.com]

32 but after this post I will be tied for 31st hehehehehe (evil grin).

[felisdemens.livejournal.com]

>i>Catcher In the Rye just annoyed me and made me want to slap the white off Holden.

[felisdemens.livejournal.com]

Shit.

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

*points and laughs*

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

It was "dense" yeah, in way that say Douglas Adams isn't.

[docbrite.livejournal.com]

The fact that nobody likes Catcher in the Rye these days is one of the major things that makes me fear for the future of humanity. Don't any of you haters see what a deliciously funny book it is?

[docbrite.livejournal.com]

P.S. I do think it helps if you first read it between the ages of, say, 12 and 19. We all know it's possible to be too young for a certain book, but I think it's also possible to be too old for one. We old farts tend to forget that we, too, were once as insufferable as Holden.

[thewrongcrowd.livejournal.com]

Aha! That's my problem. Kin always said I was born an old woman. By that measure I should be able to reread Catcher in 30 years or so. :)

I've never read it.

[naruki-oni.livejournal.com]

Someone in my high school English class gave a book report on it once, but I've forgotten what they said.

And now I probably won't have a chance to read it anyway, given where I am.

Is it good?

Not sure why I did.

[thewrongcrowd.livejournal.com]

Other than it always shows up on "the" lists. Couldn't tell you at this point much about it other than I didn't like it the first time.

Does where you is have book rate? I could be talked into sending a paperback copy.

No idea.

[naruki-oni.livejournal.com]

I can't even translate that.

But not to worry. I'm sure I could find it here if I were sufficiently motivated.

I just have a lot more other reading I have to do first.

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

I can definitely see your point, but having been in that same sort of mindspace, and suffered for it, it's not all that easy to look back on with fondness. Maybe if I'd read it back when I was still an insufferable little shit it would've helped me a bit. But a lot of that book hit a little too close to some old withered bits of my soul.