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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree on The Nightingale and add anything by K. Hannah.

Classic category: Catcher in the Rye
Such a spoiled, callow protagonist[/quote]

You are not alone. My friends and I all hated that book, especially Holden. What a whiner. His sister, Phoebe, was OK, though. [/quote]

I came here to say this too! Couldn’t stand the book or Holden.

Also agree with the PP who posted about 100 years of Solitude - couldn’t get past 50 pages. I loved Love in the Time of Cholera though.

Another book/ author I couldn’t ever stand was Atlas Shrugged/ Ayn Rand.[/quote]

Did you hate Holden Caulfield and the book when you were in highschool (or whenever you first read it)?

I loved the book because it was an easier read than some of the other required reading. Pretty quick pace. And while it was outdated, I could relate to the narrator in a way (or at least put myself in his shoes).

I've read it again a few times over the years and can understand why anyone who's read it in the past 15 years might find it obnoxious.

I still love books written in that style of colloquial prose.  [/quote]

Ok add Catcher in the Rye to my list too. Somehow I did not get assigned it in school and read it as an adult. My husband’s theory is that I was too old to relate to it at that time. [/quote]

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