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Longtime lover of J.D. Salinger here, but this, his most famous book, which I read years ago, was never my favorite of his work.
But last week I checked it out from the library and found it to be an absolute delight. Funny, irreverent, acerbic, and sweet āĀ a snapshot of the icy angst hiding beneath glossy 1950s America.
(Oh, and The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath is another essential read from the same sensibility.)
Sep 20, 2024
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I donāt know why I would recommend it to be honest. The other two classics I would recommend from my heart would be The Catcher and the Rye or 100 Years of Solitude. Issue is that Rye is like the first āincelcoreā book and I legit didnāt understand anything from Solitude but it was a ride. When I did read Catch-22 over the summer in high school, I just tried to get it done because I have a shitty brain that functions on porn and video games, but after I was done reading it, I tried living my life with the thought that everything was illogical, which worked for the most part, until I started to lose my mental health. so idk, itās like a crack pipe, terrible for those who canāt control it, great for those who can.
Jun 13, 2024
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try and wish as i might to dislodge the opening sentence from the corner of permanency of my brain, it won't shift. because it's just that good. so delicious and juicy and evocative and rhythmic that every time i peel open the well-loved, well-worn, well-aged copy of the book, i am unable to stop reading at just that first line.
'It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.'
at once it's hot and sticky and bad things are in the air and it's all whimsical and meandering and at lost. i am there on the sidewalk, melting into the cement, unsure of it all.
Feb 17, 2025
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been deep in beat lit for the past year+ and somehow didnt stumble across this one until now. deeply new york, deeply of the 50s/60s, and some of the most inventive prose style ive read. highly, highly rec. thereās a film w jennifer jason leigh which i will be watching tn
Jan 12, 2024
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this is worthy of celebration:Ā the lack of videoāautoplay video, noisy inane video, panicky video, algorithmic, dumb video, rabbit hole video, any videoāon pi.fyi is a good thing
Oct 5, 2024
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this is going to hurt āĀ A LOT āĀ but it's getting to the point where there's no other option
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