>it's one of the best books ever written
>it's good, but overrated
>it's not great, but an interesting evolution in the sense that it was one if the first books to really attempt to appeal to young adults, but it's not that good
>it's bad, it beats you over the head with symbolism and the unreliability of the narrator
>it's terrible, I hate Holden

>>8013590
/thread

Pretty good, but some people just praise it too much

I read it in highschool therefore its shit

>>8013562
It helped me understand Gatsby

>>8013590
>you only think it's good if you identify with Holden, otherwise it's terrible

Why isn't his hat backwards?
Also, this book was my childhood gospel

The prototype for all of the teenager bait "hurrr my feelings are seriose" YA shit. No wonder it's one of John Green's favorites.

In to the motherfucking trash.

So were Faulkner and Beckett both wrong about it?

>dude I got raped lmao

literally who cares?

>>8015434
It's been forever since I read the book but I recall getting the vine the Holden knows he's trash, whereas John green and his ilk write their characters without that central concept

Anyone mentioned how he rapes his sister yet?

I like the part where his sister seduces Holden.

i have just googled 'catcher in the rye rape'

now, it was the very first link

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130428204726AAenxCc

>Rape in The Catcher in the Rye?

>Ok, so here's my thinking: When holden says he wants to be "The catcher in the rye" catching kids unexpectedly as they walk close to or off the cliff to adulthood, could his substitution of the word "meet" with "catch" imply rape?

holden, a wannabe children rapist (:

>>8015438
What did they say?

that book cover triggers me

>>8013562
Dazai Osamu's Schoolgirl does the same thing better

>>8015440
>literawlie

>>8015287
I wonder if this is true.

Masterpiece, especially at its timr of publication.. a great story for teenagers or people struggling with there emerging adult identitys. Gr8 book and an essential piece of work for any bookshelf