Catcher in the Rye can shit off.
Stupid hippy 'no-one understands me' teenager.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 7 Feb 2013, 12:49, 2 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

I didn't read it until I was 19 or so.
I love the writing, nothing to do with emo shit. I'm a sucker for postwar American fiction anyway- my favourite author is William Burroughs. I got really excited when And The Hippos...was published.

I'm a literature geek.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 7 Feb 2013, 12:52, Reply)

Fuck off, you "love the writing" bollocks. That's like saying you "love the brushstrokes" of a painting.
A shit story is a shit story is a shit story, doess't matter if it's "well written". You sound like my english teacher "But can you at least appreciate it's well written?" No actually, if the story doesn't interest me at all, or in the case of Catcher in the Rye, is FUCKING SHIT, then no, the writing can fucking shit off and do one like your dead hamster.
( Bazongaloid, Thu 7 Feb 2013, 12:59, Reply)

no, the point of fiction isn't necessarily to tell a story.
And I do love the writing. When I read Underworld for the first time there was a sentence in there which was that beautiful that I had to email it to an equally nerdy mate.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 7 Feb 2013, 13:03, Reply)

The point of Catcher in the Rye is a story. That's all, it's not magic realism, which I can appreciate doesn't tell a linear tale
it's just a story about a character who is cunt with no redeeming features, and before you start I don't expect to love all characters to like the story, but he doesn't do anything either. THe story is a shit unlikeable cunt thinks he's better than he is, he leaves home, he gets punched by a pimp for being a cunt and he goes home again. That's it.

There is nothing more to the writing.
( Bazongaloid, Thu 7 Feb 2013, 13:06, Reply)

It would probably be different if he was presented as an anti-hero.
But he isn't even one of them.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 7 Feb 2013, 13:08, Reply)

I want to see Dozer defend it without using the term "post-modern".

( Kroney, Thu 7 Feb 2013, 13:09, Reply)

I want to see Dozer defend it without every single thing he posts coming out like "I'm a fucking retard with a pet that should only be kept by a six year old"

( Bazongaloid, Thu 7 Feb 2013, 13:10, Reply)

With you all the way on this one, b3th.
I found Holden Caulfield to be such an irritating prick.
I can see why dozer likes him though.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 7 Feb 2013, 12:52, Reply)

Every society has literature like that.
I read quite a few German and French ones at uni.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 7 Feb 2013, 12:54, Reply)

Aw you had so much potential back then.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 7 Feb 2013, 12:55, Reply)

I really didn't

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 7 Feb 2013, 13:00, Reply)

I liked Evan Dorkin's Fisher Price Theater version better than the real one.
cardhouse.com/x07/catcher1.htm

See also: Of Mice And Men. "The moral of this story is NEVER find work for your friends"
cardhouse.com/x12/mice.htm

cardhouse.com/x10/lottery.htm
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Thu 7 Feb 2013, 12:56, Reply)

Ha I like that.
Couldn't bring myself to read all of the Catcher one though.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 7 Feb 2013, 13:02, Reply)

It ain't no DEVIL PUPPET or Milk And Cheese mind.
:D
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Thu 7 Feb 2013, 13:10, Reply)

he is indeed a prick
But I'm able to separate my feelings about a character from an admiration of the text as a whole. For instance, Lolita herself is a manipulative, sex-obsessed bitch with no redeeming features, but the book itself is absolutely wonderful.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 7 Feb 2013, 12:56, Reply)

Oh I dunno, her tits are alright.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 7 Feb 2013, 12:58, Reply)

oh, you!

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 7 Feb 2013, 12:59, Reply)

How nice can a twelve year old's tits be, though?

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 7 Feb 2013, 13:00, Reply)

My lawyer advises me not to answer this question.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 7 Feb 2013, 13:02, Reply)

I'll ask Bartleby then.

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 7 Feb 2013, 13:09, Reply)

Again, shit the fuck off "admiration of the text as a whole" why paint some sonic pictures with achingly beautiful music while you're at it.

( Bazongaloid, Thu 7 Feb 2013, 13:00, Reply)

again
You seem to have a real issue with books that aren't meat and potatoes, linear stories. I find that pretty funny.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 7 Feb 2013, 13:05, Reply)

See above you pretentious cunt.

( Bazongaloid, Thu 7 Feb 2013, 13:06, Reply)

yeah I read that you patronising ignorant cockwipe
Gotta get back to work now, we can share our views on Jack Reacher and his alpha-male fantasy fulfillment dogshit later, yeah?
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 7 Feb 2013, 13:10, Reply)

I hope he draws some tails and knuckles too

( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Thu 7 Feb 2013, 13:06, Reply)