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Battle of the Unlikeable Protagonists!

Poll - Total Votes: 7
Ignatius J. Reilly
Holden Caulfield
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Battle to the death, which doofus would win, and how?
summersong · F
Catcher in the Rye is awful. One of my least favorite books ever.
TiffAching · 26-30, F
Looks like Holden is winning, more’s the pity. I want to give the win to Ignatius is a straight punch-up because he’s a bigger guy, but Holden also seems like the kind of dipshit who’d just shoot up Irene’s house after getting banned from voat or Parler, so ...

Rest In Power, Ignatius, you slob extraordinary, mad Oliver Hardy, fat Don Quixote, and perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one.
Straylight · 31-35, F
@TiffAching But Holden is so smug.
TiffAching · 26-30, F
@Straylight He is [i]the worst[/i].
Straylight · 31-35, F
I haaaated Catcher in the Rye.
CheshireCatalyst · 36-40, M
I hated Caulfield so much. That book was hard to read because I just wanted him to shut up, but it's all from his perspective.
hunkalove · 61-69, M
John Olinger would kick both their butts.
Harmonium1923 · 51-55, M
Well I at least managed to get all the way through Catcher in the Rye.....
TiffAching · 26-30, F
@Harmonium1923 Ha!

Three things annoy me so much about [i]Catcher[/i]: (1) the assumption that all white teen boys will like and sympathize with Holden uncritically, (2) how many of them [i]do[/i], and (3) how the girls in high school English get absolutely ignored when talking about it.

I mean, Ignatius is an absolute trash bag, but at least that book doesn’t pretend he’s anything [i]but[/i], and there’s not this ready-made hagiography surrounding him.

 
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