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"privileged caucasian..." that says it all (about you)
Good Mr. Carlos. Leave Holden alone. Go read books about black, queer, impoverished girls striving to become lawyers. Then you can connect with humanity. Go work for Bernie Sanders. Stay far away from Holden, please.
This post comes across as blithely bigoted.
And in a strange way, classist.
I agree. The book is terrible. I grew up in poverty, even suffering from malnutrition, in the hovel of a violent drunkard. I went to one of the notorious underfunded public schools in the USA. I studied hard and got a full collge scholarship. I escaped the misery of my childhood.
The kid in the book goes to one of the best private schools in the country, but he gets kicked out because he's too self-entitled and lazy to study. The boy won the lottery of birth and thumbs his nose at it. He's a typical spawn of white american bourgeois.
wow what a disgusting way to talk.
I don't know why I can’t edit . BBC just did a piece on cult classics that have aged badly. Catcher was first in the list. Basically, it’s a Baby Boomer favorite, and modern and more enlightened people hate it. The author goes on to call out Cawfield's grating sense of entitlement, so common among his gêneraton.
Next on the list is On the Road. Hahaha. Anot her crappy baby boomer book that deserves to be ridiculed.
Next was that nasty Ayn Rand's Fountainhead Shrugged or whatever it is. Another abortion of a book.
4th was Old Man and the Sea. Okay, I liked that one but read it when I was 12. The writer hated Hemingway's thuggish idea of what a real man is and hated some of his cheesy catch-phrases.
5th was Jonathan Livingston Seagul. I like it but I was 10. The writer hated the feel good New Age philosophy.
@Aelys Imagine basing your views of a book off of BBC. LMAO, you're absolutely hilarious. Not to mention you sound like a fucking boomer yourself.
I finished it, but didn't really care for it. Agree.
Man, privileged Caucasians fight their own demons, which might be less powerful than those of oppressed groups. From your perspective we should endorse only writers on war and genocide topics.
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Good Mr. Carlos. Leave Holden alone. Go read books about black, queer, impoverished girls striving to become lawyers. Then you can connect with humanity. Go work for Bernie Sanders. Stay far away from Holden, please.
This post comes across as blithely bigoted. And in a strange way, classist.
I agree. The book is terrible. I grew up in poverty, even suffering from malnutrition, in the hovel of a violent drunkard. I went to one of the notorious underfunded public schools in the USA. I studied hard and got a full collge scholarship. I escaped the misery of my childhood. The kid in the book goes to one of the best private schools in the country, but he gets kicked out because he's too self-entitled and lazy to study. The boy won the lottery of birth and thumbs his nose at it. He's a typical spawn of white american bourgeois.
wow what a disgusting way to talk.
I don't know why I can’t edit . BBC just did a piece on cult classics that have aged badly. Catcher was first in the list. Basically, it’s a Baby Boomer favorite, and modern and more enlightened people hate it. The author goes on to call out Cawfield's grating sense of entitlement, so common among his gêneraton. Next on the list is On the Road. Hahaha. Anot her crappy baby boomer book that deserves to be ridiculed.
Next was that nasty Ayn Rand's Fountainhead Shrugged or whatever it is. Another abortion of a book.
4th was Old Man and the Sea. Okay, I liked that one but read it when I was 12. The writer hated Hemingway's thuggish idea of what a real man is and hated some of his cheesy catch-phrases.
5th was Jonathan Livingston Seagul. I like it but I was 10. The writer hated the feel good New Age philosophy.
@Aelys Imagine basing your views of a book off of BBC. LMAO, you're absolutely hilarious. Not to mention you sound like a fucking boomer yourself.
I finished it, but didn't really care for it. Agree.
Man, privileged Caucasians fight their own demons, which might be less powerful than those of oppressed groups. From your perspective we should endorse only writers on war and genocide topics.
