Now your talking, yep found your quotes on Salinger. I couldn't get any empathy with Holden, found him jumped up, wooden, generally not believable. What I found the orst thing about Catcher in the Rye though is I was constantly waiting for something, whether it be a climax, something profound, plot any one of those things. At the end I felt angry because nothing had transpired and I felt my time had been wasted. Tootling along in prose is all well and good if that tootling is to set an atmosphere and maybe that was the atmosphere of Catcher in the Rye, it's not an atmosphere I am familiar with. I can't remember who but there is an author who says the best way for the action to flow is by missing out the pages readers skip, I felt like skipping more of Catcher in the Rye than reading it. Maybe it is something specific to time, place and status, gender, as a working class British woman I don't get Holden. I couldn't have behaved like that as a teenager who was still at school and I don't know people who could, then again I read Catcher as an adult, maybe I would have liked it as a kid, although I don't think so. I liked Graham Green, I detested DH Lawrence and to me Salinger is a similar style, which sounds crazy but there is something I cannot pinpoint which Lawrence and Salinger share. I remember writing as a teenager that Lawrence writes like a child, so that might be it, of course salinger is supposed to be writing like a child, but I think in relation to Lawrence I was referring to the copious but simplistic description, too much description not enough emotion, humanness. Describ the innermost person not the dimensions and details of a room like an interior designer.
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