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posted by [identity profile] java-fiend.livejournal.com at 04:32am on 01/07/2009
Oh honestly, I hated Catcher in the Rye. I seriously despised Holden... I so wanted to smack him upside the head. lol...
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posted by [identity profile] laurainlimbo.livejournal.com at 02:23am on 04/07/2009
oh Holden Caulfield was despicable, but that's why the book was so good! because Salinger made his narrator/character so horrible you actually learned to love him. I read another book that was similar which was The Ginger Man by JP Donleavy. The narrator is so horrible he makes Holden look like a boyscout, seriously. but the book was so well-written that I kept turning pages.

that's a sign of a great writer!
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posted by [identity profile] java-fiend.livejournal.com at 03:32am on 04/07/2009
Oh evoking emotions is definitely the sign of a great writer. And on that count, Salinger succeeded... but Holden was so absolutely despicable to me that I honestly didn't learn to love him... I just despised him from start to finish... I didn't see any change in him from the beginning of the book to the end. He was completely unredeemed in my eyes. Bleh. lol...
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posted by [identity profile] laurainlimbo.livejournal.com at 09:51pm on 07/07/2009
you wouldn't like the Ginger Man either then - the narrator like I said is even more despicable than Holden. if you can believe that! a mysoginist (spelling?), lazy, drunk, dirty, a thief, takes advantage of everyone... but somehow I was compelled enough to almost finish the book. but I didn't finish it.
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posted by [identity profile] java-fiend.livejournal.com at 07:12am on 08/07/2009
lol... he sounds like a scumbag. What made you finally put the book down?

Oh and I finally posted my 5-words meme that you assigned me. :-)
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