how holden caulfield are you?

[discolé monade]

i would like to think i'm finally down in the single digits...i hope.

8%? maybe?

[Insipid]

The older I get the more I hate that son of a bitch.

I'm probably still double digits though. 25 percent I guess.

[discolé monade]

right?

i remember thinking i was so fucking profound checking into the fucking st. charles. 

hookers and blow, pimps and cops that absolutely didn't give a fuck. 

i remember switching rooms,  you know...because of the roaches...and thinking....this really isn't all that great...you know...because of the yelling down the hall.

and finished CitR -- my 5th read through...and last. in that year.  

 

[nameraka]

On 3/10/2025 at 4:13 PM, Insipid said:

The older I get the more I hate that son of a bitch.

I'm probably still double digits though. 25 percent I guess.

I hated him the first time i read it. I was like 19. 

45% 

[Insipid]

I think The Catcher in the Rye has had an influence on Main Character Syndrome omnipresent in contemporary American culture. (I just felt like saying something deep and stupid.)

I first read when I was 13, while my parents were going through a divorce. I think I'll read it again soon.

[discolé monade]

but you're not wrong. 

i was obsessed with the book. 

[PhilosipherStoned]

Had to google that to even remember he's the guy in The Catcher in the Rye. Thanks for bringing back memories of being forced to listen to people read that god awful book, and me attempting to read it on my own for class but not even being able to make it through a whole chapter because it's sad piece of sloppy repressed memories of the author. 

edit: I sometimes forget just how polarizing of a novel it's supposed to be, and I've only read it for high school, and then later creative writing classes college level. I've never not hated it though it's almost like... If you were going to make Hayden Caulfield so unlikeable, and like a symbol of innocence or protecting it at least do it from the third person so we don't have to listen to him rambling.. The plot is lacking you have little to no character progression..

You def either love or hate that book and I'm in the hate camp. Fuck Hayden Caulfield I'm fucking triggered. 

Edited Monday at 06:07 AM by PhilosipherStoned

[scoobdog]

So... does that make you 99% P-stoned?

[discolé monade]

lol....

now scoob...when you say p-stoned...you're not talking about...

wait...you know what?

shut up scoob. 

[Dark_Cloud_Overhead]

50% Personally I'd say I'm nothing like him, but the idea of his that adults often become really phony as they conform to society and end up losing sight of the things that really matter was the one part of the book that really stuck with me I'd say.

[[classic swim]]

[discolé monade]

if that doesn't look like the room....

pur a stand alond pedestal sink, and no clock...add some roaches....

voila! st charles motel, springfield ma. 

[discolé monade]

13 hours ago, Dark_Cloud_Overhead said:

50% Personally I'd say I'm nothing like him, but the idea of his that adults often become really phony as they conform to society and end up losing sight of the things that really matter was the one part of the book that really stuck with me I'd say.

that part.