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Originally Posted by Drolefille
It's conceivable I'm just biased about things I was forced to read.
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Just giving you a hard time. That has certainly happened to all of us. I hated
The Old Man and the Sea for that same reason, and I've had a hard time with Hemmingway ever since.
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But I found both Catcher and Gatsby to be novels without purpose, with relatively unlikeable protagonists and Gatsby in particular was vapid as hell.
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You found
Gatsby the book or Gatsby the character vapid? (Or both?) The character is supposed to be somewhat vapid.
As for Holden, I don't know that I ever liked him -- there were times I liked him, but I don't know that I'd want to spend too much time with him. But I did find him really interesting, and in some way, relatable. Part of what I found compelling about it was the realization that I was relating to a character I didn't necessarily like a lot.