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Catcher in the Rye
My exact thought as well. It was mandatory in HS, and i just never got the hype. Holden Caufield is a whiny phony.
It's fun irony to try to have a bunch of angsty teens read a book about an angsty teen. I bet it would come across very different to read it as an adult.
It's only fair. They whined about reading a book by a 51-year old author (Black Beauty). Now they get a taste of their own medicine.
I probably wouldn't have killed John Lennon if that was the case.
So you don't remember being a teenager?
Nope. Came out of the womb at 37.
Is your mom okay?
A little bowlegged, but otherwise fit as a fiddle.
I don't know what I expected. Still hilarious, though.
Huh, she said the same thing....
You may have just overthrown Steve Carell as the champion of "That's what she said" jokes.
You always left me satisfied.
Oh, how the turntables have...
That's a lot of filet o' fish wrappers.
This is extra funny because that's my favorite item from there. I don't go there often for various reasons, but on the rare occasion I do, I either get a double with extra cheese and extra sauce, or I get two sandwiches. If they ever have a sale, I will buy twelve of them to eat throughout the day. I will also be taking the next day off.
I liked it because it's a journey with a traumatized teenager. As a teenager who didnt realize I had cptsd it hit hard for me