Holden Caulfield, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He …
While I enjoyed moments, I only got half-way through this. I wanted to finish it, but I kept finding excuses to not read it. Maybe, if I had fewer library books piled on my bedside table, I might have continued a little longer with this one.
@skribe I took the zero in a lit class for this one. I could not finish it. On the paper I had a title page, bib page, opening and closing paragraphs on page on. Boring. An mc I could not care less about. In the class discussion i said: "I'm all for personal freedom, and if the main character wanted to die so hard he should have just killed himself."
I have no clue why it's such a classic.
@r3t3ch@mastodon.social it reminded me of Kerouac's On the Road, another mid-century so-called classic. I loathed that one, but I managed to finish it because it was like watching a car crash in slow motion. I really don't understand the fascination with irredeemable characters.
