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subrosa wrote

You ever read Catcher in the Rye?

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ziq OP wrote

yeah. i wanted to understand why it convinced him to kill Lennon

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subrosa wrote

is it any good? did you find an answer?

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ziq OP wrote

he thought lennon was a phoney. he got old and rich and festered creatively while continuing to have a stranglehold on the culture, holding humanity's collective evolution back and soiling the supposed counterculture with his establishment vibe

i read it too long ago to say if it was good. like 20 years

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ziq OP wrote

actually, it was good. not because of the plot or story, but because it completely captured the mind of a spoiled white boy and his vapid empty existence

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gone_to_croatan wrote

I wrote my response before seeing this lol

I think the book is not the problem tho

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Blurp2 wrote

I can't imagine why J.D. Salinger is so widely read. Catcher in the Rye is about a young guy who goes to New York City and has absolutely no fun, while he's there. Talk about a social fantasy...

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