Is it a good book? My friend tells me she loves it but I get

it's a good book. also, you should take it as a matter of course to ignore what other people say about books before you've even read the first page.

and stop thinking in terms of memes, for chrissakes

>>8161602
*a book

>>8161594
Found it relatable when I was 12, sort of but less so at 14, couldn't finish it again at 18. It's probably worth reading in a lifetime, but I'm sure there is something of more substance by Salinger out there somewhere.

Hating the book because the character isn't relatable is tantamount to meming

>>8161693
The thing is you get more out of it every time you read it. I did it when I was 21 last time.

>>8161594
>main character is not relatable

Then you're not human desu

>>8161602
>what other people say
>memes
two very different things, my friend

>>8161693
I am afraid ot will be like this. My friend talk about the deep stuff the book is about but I'm jist not sure. I am about to read it eventually tho

>>8161734
I think he meant the "edgy, normie and r9k" but I am just switched to this 4chan mode

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>>8161594
>"Also, I would like to see equal attention given to the sexism in popular work by men, from Nicholas Sparks to for instance J. D. Salinger. Catcher in the Rye—although I like it very much—is profoundly and disturbingly misogynistic and yet seems to get a critical pass both online and off. This happens a lot, I think, with books by men, and I don't want male writers (including me!) to get that pass."

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Franny and Zooey > Catcher in the Rye

>>8162408
what a fruit.

If you try to read it as if the author was serious you'll dislike it but if you read it as a character piece it's not so bad.