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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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I love Catcher in the Rye, but my main ting is American fiction anyway.
You should try Less Than Zero.
(, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:37, 3 replies, latest was 13 years ago)
I also liked Catcher in the Rye
see also Jack Kerouac's On the Road
(, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:39, Reply)
I was expecting to like On the Road more than I did.

(, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:43, Reply)
I have tried to read it several times and got bored each time.
I don't understand, because I'm sure it is supposed to appeal to me.
(, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:54, Reply)
For the life of me I couldn't see how it 'shaped a generation' or whatever.

(, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 13:00, Reply)
it was shit. FACT.

(, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 13:12, Reply)
I have a couple of recordings of Kerouac reading excerpts from that and some other books
accompanied by a jazz pianist extemporising underneath it all, and that is excellent. The words and his delivery are very pleasing to listen to, but I still can't read him.
(, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 13:13, Reply)
PONCE.

(, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 13:13, Reply)
Perhaps.

(, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 13:14, Reply)
If it's the same style as Catcher, I don't think I'd be able to enjoy it
The stream of consciousness style of writing just leaves me cold.
(, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:46, Reply)
Thematically similar
But with coke, gang rape of a 12 year old, ennui, fast cars and male prostitutes.
(, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:53, Reply)
Make them do what?

(, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 13:00, Reply)
I thought Holden Caulfield was an irritating prick and that ruined the book for me.

(, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:55, Reply)
have you seen the "family guy" where quagmire rants at brian about that book?
haha
(, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:57, Reply)
I have not, but I imagine I would agree with him.

(, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 13:14, Reply)

www.b3ta.com/board/10271435
(, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:57, Reply)
Spot on.

(, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 13:13, Reply)
Very much this.

(, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 13:01, Reply)
I think I was the same age as Caulfield when I read it
perhaps if I read it as an adult I might've been more forgiving.
(, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 13:16, Reply)
I was 14 at the time, I think that probably made me hate him less
If I read it now, I don't think I could get past the first few pages.
(, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 13:18, Reply)

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