Catcher In The Rye VS To Kill a Mockingbird

[Jack]

which american classic is better?

[Rock]

I'll go with catcher in the rye

[[deleted user]]

Sorry, I can't choose. Both books are timeless and excellent.

[Christina]

Catcher in the Rye is so incredibly boring. I didn't like it the first time I read it and I hate it even more this time around. And yes, I get it.

To Kill a Mockingbird was phenomenal.

[Chris]

UGH! I HATE Catcher in the Rye with a burning passion.

Holden Caulfield is a self-entitled, whiny, pseudo-intellectual spoiled BRAT!! I wanted to beat the shit out of this snot nosed little emo from day one. I see jackasses like him all the time who look down their noses at everyone else and think they are more evolved and ascended human beings than the rest of us peons....this book is a joke and the only people I see who enjoy it are those who deify and praise Holden as their patron Saint of teenage angst and the "they just don't get me because I'm like, totally out of the mainstream!" crowds....give me a break

[[deleted user]]

I loved Catcher In The Rye. It's a classic work of literature, and so before it's time.

[Christina]

I'm with you Grammar Goebbels. My favorite worst part so far is- sometimes my mom braided my sister's hair, sometimes she didn't. Duh. And who the hell cares? Everyone else is so boring to him, but that remark deserved a permanent status as a classical work of art? I call BS on that.

Surely there are other books that have the same message, yet do not make my eyes bleed and beg to be stabbed out. The only classic that is worse so far is The Great Gatsby. I'm not advocating burning books, but I might make an exception for these two because they are so stinking boring.

[Jenny]

I'm going with To Kill a Mockingbird on this one. I don't hate Catcher in the Rye, but it's mediocre in my opinion.

[Ed]

To dismiss Catcher in the Rye is to dismiss teenage angst...