Cactus_Head@programming.dev to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 months agoWhat books would you describe as nothing burger?message-squaremessage-square73fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWhat books would you describe as nothing burger?Cactus_Head@programming.dev to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square73fedilink
minus-squareGeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoMy exact thought as well. It was mandatory in HS, and i just never got the hype. Holden Caufield is a whiny phony.
minus-squarecaptainlezbian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-23 months agoI 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
minus-squareGeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoNope. Came out of the womb at 37.
minus-squareGeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoA little bowlegged, but otherwise fit as a fiddle.
minus-squareRemember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoI don’t know what I expected. Still hilarious, though.
minus-squareGeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoHuh, she said the same thing…
minus-squareRemember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoYou may have just overthrown Steve Carell as the champion of “That’s what she said” jokes.
minus-squareevasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoIt’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.
minus-squareRemember_the_tooth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoIt’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.
minus-squareGeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoI probably wouldn’t have killed John Lennon if that was the case.
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.
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
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.
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.