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Could not have put it better myself. I have very similar feelings about the novel. One that I keep returning to from tieme to time at different stages of life and still find something very special in it everytime.
Thank you all very much for your kind comments. The last sentence in my comment is from "On Heroes and Tombs", an outstanding book by an outstanding author (Ernesto Sábato). If you liked A Catcher in the Rye, I reccomend you that book very much. Also, by reading it, you will know a lot of things about Buenos Aires during the 1950s. If you find some of the stories of the book very large and that they don't have any particular contribution to the central story, just skip them, because it really worth reading the whole book (the ending is surprising). On heroes and Tombs is one of the best hispanic novels, and Ernesto Sabato was appreciated by writers like Albert Camus and Thomas Mann. If you liked On Heroes and Tombs, then please let me know and please read "The tunnel" of the same author, which is also a great book.
Thank you for well written and thoughtful review. I didn't care for the book but through your words I can see how some may feel a great connection to it. I see it is very valuable to some and that makes it important. Art may not speak to everyone equally but that does not mean it isn't art.
I think the people who don't like the novel don't like people like that -- the people who don't fit in and are isolated and different. And they don't get that that is who the novel is describing. But it is now one of my favorite novels.
"Don't like people like that"? I _am_ a people like that. I identify with Holden; I just can't imagine whining about the fact that I'm a privileged white guy the way he does.
Well as I said I loved it, but I think not everybody can relate to it.
It's funny, because the people who complain about Holden being a whiny privileged white guy are aways the ones who are the most similar to him, just less self-aware.
:) I first read it when I was too young to appreciate the subtleties and I did think he was whiny. With age, I have come to appreciate the nuance.
damn, this book felt that much huh, you should read the fountainhead by ayn rand. But idk, I never felt anything to this person or the character. And as an artist check out the fountainhead. I read this after that so maybe it is because of that.
I don't know why you would compare Catcher in the Rye to The Fountainhead.
I love that you've seen it from the perspective of honesty as opposed to other commenters presenting the view of american dream and liberty everytime they speak
Also, I have to say that I changed my evaluation of the book because your comment conveyed very well the profoundness of the book and I realized how shallow I thought of it.
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Could not have put it better myself. I have very similar feelings about the novel. One that I keep returning to from tieme to time at different stages of life and still find something very special in it everytime.
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Thank you all very much for your kind comments. The last sentence in my comment is from "On Heroes and Tombs", an outstanding book by an outstanding author (Ernesto Sábato). If you liked A Catcher in the Rye, I reccomend you that book very much. Also, by reading it, you will know a lot of things about Buenos Aires during the 1950s. If you find some of the stories of the book very large and that they don't have any particular contribution to the central story, just skip them, because it really worth reading the whole book (the ending is surprising). On heroes and Tombs is one of the best hispanic novels, and Ernesto Sabato was appreciated by writers like Albert Camus and Thomas Mann. If you liked On Heroes and Tombs, then please let me know and please read "The tunnel" of the same author, which is also a great book.
Thank you for well written and thoughtful review. I didn't care for the book but through your words I can see how some may feel a great connection to it. I see it is very valuable to some and that makes it important. Art may not speak to everyone equally but that does not mean it isn't art.
I think the people who don't like the novel don't like people like that -- the people who don't fit in and are isolated and different. And they don't get that that is who the novel is describing. But it is now one of my favorite novels.
"Don't like people like that"? I _am_ a people like that. I identify with Holden; I just can't imagine whining about the fact that I'm a privileged white guy the way he does.
Well as I said I loved it, but I think not everybody can relate to it.
It's funny, because the people who complain about Holden being a whiny privileged white guy are aways the ones who are the most similar to him, just less self-aware.
:) I first read it when I was too young to appreciate the subtleties and I did think he was whiny. With age, I have come to appreciate the nuance.
damn, this book felt that much huh, you should read the fountainhead by ayn rand. But idk, I never felt anything to this person or the character. And as an artist check out the fountainhead. I read this after that so maybe it is because of that.
I don't know why you would compare Catcher in the Rye to The Fountainhead.
I love that you've seen it from the perspective of honesty as opposed to other commenters presenting the view of american dream and liberty everytime they speak
Also, I have to say that I changed my evaluation of the book because your comment conveyed very well the profoundness of the book and I realized how shallow I thought of it.
