To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
That’s what you call it? I read a boring book about a whining spoiled brat little rich prick who liked to hit on older women, get drunk and make an idiot out of himself.
LOL, I guess that my extreme lower income, foster homes and juvenile hall childhood left me under-equipped to deal with that guy’s profound angst.
I wanted to kick his a$$ and make him join the Army.
31 posted on
01/29/2010 6:03:29 PM PST by
Ronin
To: Ronin
He's not supposed to be a likable character. He was a 15 year old growing out of his emotional immaturity.
32 posted on
01/29/2010 6:05:05 PM PST by
Borges
To: Ronin
I wanted to kick his a$$ and make him join the Army. LOL!
33 posted on
01/29/2010 6:06:37 PM PST by
wimpycat
(Hyperbole is the opiate of the activist wacko.)
To: Ronin
To: Ronin
Pretty much my assessment of it also.
I think the main reason liberals were so orgasmic about it is because it had the F-word in it a couple of times which was apparently a big deal when it was published.
41 posted on
01/29/2010 6:21:13 PM PST by
Zman516
(muslims, marxists, communists ---> satan's useful idiot corps)
To: Ronin
Well, your comment is ironic. Holden Caulfield was, to a large degree, Salinger. Salinger was at Utah Beach on D-Day and fought in the Battle of the Bulge. He spoke German and interrogated Germans for our CIC...but don't misunderstand me: the guy was a major a-hole, crazier than a sh*thouse rat, and had a really bad self-involved attitude.
But, he WAS in the army.
47 posted on
01/29/2010 6:31:59 PM PST by
Pharmboy
(The Stone Age did not end because they ran out of stones...)
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