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<blockquote data-quote="Aurini" data-source="post: 919977" data-attributes="member: 4778">Seconds:Dianetics: I read about half of it.&nbsp; Endless repetitions about how our thetans are messed up, because all of our mothers tried to abort us with coat-hangers but failed.&nbsp; Seriously.&nbsp; We all got coat-hanger raped in the womb, according to him, it comes up at least once a chapter.Catcher in the Rye: The story of a mentally ill, selfish little twerp, who refuses to grow up.&nbsp; Peter pan with meandering nothing and an obsession with sex.&nbsp; If he'd been the villain of the piece - a damaged little monster who drags his family down - it could have been a good exploration of mental illness.&nbsp; Instead, we're supposed to accept him as a protagonist and sympathize with him, when all he does is walk around calling people phony.I think this is where the outrage stemmed from; people said it was the sex and prostitution (note: he doesn't even fuck the prostitute, so her pimp almost beats him up), but I think the real anger came from glorifying such a shit heel.Original:On the Road: poorly written garbage about Kerouac and his loser friends mooching off of the good will of others, exploiting and degrading the high trust society of the fifties, with no catharsis, no lessons learned, just patheity at the end of the trip.&nbsp; If any of us had lived back then, it would have been so easy to rebuild from scratch; go to a small town, and somebody would help you out with a job and a place to stay.&nbsp; Guys like Kerouac destroyed that for the rest of us.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aurini, post: 919977, member: 4778"] Seconds: [i]Dianetics[/i]: I read about half of it. Endless repetitions about how our thetans are messed up, because all of our mothers tried to abort us with coat-hangers but failed. Seriously. We all got coat-hanger raped in the womb, according to him, it comes up at least once a chapter. [i]Catcher in the Rye[/i]: The story of a mentally ill, selfish little twerp, who refuses to grow up. Peter pan with meandering nothing and an obsession with sex. If he'd been the villain of the piece - a damaged little monster who drags his family down - it could have been a good exploration of mental illness. Instead, we're supposed to accept him as a protagonist and sympathize with him, when all he does is walk around calling people phony. I think this is where the outrage stemmed from; people said it was the sex and prostitution (note: he doesn't even fuck the prostitute, so her pimp almost beats him up), but I think the real anger came from glorifying such a shit heel. Original: [i]On the Road[/i]: poorly written garbage about Kerouac and his loser friends mooching off of the good will of others, exploiting and degrading the high trust society of the fifties, with no catharsis, no lessons learned, just patheity at the end of the trip. If any of us had lived back then, it would have been so easy to rebuild from scratch; go to a small town, and somebody would help you out with a job and a place to stay. Guys like Kerouac destroyed that for the rest of us. [/QUOTE]

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