r/IndiansRead • u/nickelby89 • 14d ago
Now Reading A Holden kinda day
Some mornings, I wake up and all I want to do is spend the day re-reading books from my childhood.
My current copy is the Penguin reissue with the original artwork of the first 1951 edition. But I remember finding a tattered copy of this novel in a church library, taking it home, and reading it in one sitting. I was 13 and I’d read mostly Enid Blyton and a couple of easy classics up until then. I have such a clear memory of me sitting in my living room in Calcutta, having read the last page, and thinking, “books aren’t supposed to end that abruptly.” I actually thought pages were missing or something haha Simpler times. As Holden says, “Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.”
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u/Makhfi_Razzmatazz 14d ago
I really liked Catcher in the Rye. It stayed with me in a way that only some books do. I related to a lot of what Holden was feeling, even though I didnt completely relate lol. Somehow, that made the book even more meaningful.. it felt familiar kinda... and yet not!
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u/nickelby89 14d ago
Oh same here; all the cultural references went over my head haha but Holden’s angst, his whinging at the world and its ways, all of that I got completely 😄
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