Love CITR. I reread it every three or four years. Never really cared much for his other works tho. When I first read it in HS it came as a breath of fresh air after having been forced to plow thru stodgy works like Silas Marner.
I just never related to Hokden Caulfield (I hate to step on a mine here, but that may partly be a gender thing) who struck me as an entitled, bratty, know-it-all type, just as much a "phony" as the phonies he complains about. Also, there's a creepy element to Salinger that also leaves me cold (again, that may be a gender thing--men may not get that same vibe).
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For me, it's 36 things about CITR I neither know nor care about.
/Dislikes CITR, baffled by its popularity.
Love CITR. I reread it every three or four years. Never really cared much for his other works tho. When I first read it in HS it came as a breath of fresh air after having been forced to plow thru stodgy works like Silas Marner.
I'm a fan, too, Steve, and I'd unbalffle Deb if I could. I just don't know how. Drifferent strokes.
Or different. Either way.
I just never related to Hokden Caulfield (I hate to step on a mine here, but that may partly be a gender thing) who struck me as an entitled, bratty, know-it-all type, just as much a "phony" as the phonies he complains about. Also, there's a creepy element to Salinger that also leaves me cold (again, that may be a gender thing--men may not get that same vibe).
Holden
Admittedly I had some things in common with Holden, and that might explain why I like the book so much.
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