Book Club on Yik Yak | One time I was in a group about books we read in high school English, and a girl said she hated The Catcher in the Rye, because it didn’t have any “Spice.” Idk why, but this stuck with me. Modern readers must be studied.

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One time I was in a group about books we read in high school English, and a girl said she hated The Catcher in the Rye, because it didn’t have any “Spice.” Idk why, but this stuck with me. Modern readers must be studied.

Anonymous 4w

I hate catcher in the rye for so many reasons but lack of spice is not one of them 😭

Anonymous 4w

I don't know of any books you would ve assigned in high school that contain spice??? The closest I can think of is the Handmaid's Tale and that is NOT the same thing

Anonymous 4w

Honestly, this is the crux of the issue I've been thinking about for a long time. It's this intentional blurring of "high brow" and "low brow" art and insisting that everything is of the same value, and not accepting that different things have different values I read a lot of political theory books, literary fiction, history books. I also read smutty fan fiction. They all serve different purposes and to insist otherwise is a bizarre way to flatten everything into a gray sameness, just "content"

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#3 4w

Maybe Lolita, 1984, Slaughterhouse Five, or Giovanni’s Room, but like those aren’t even like positive healthy sex scenes as far as I remember. They’re either rapey (the first two) or just depressing (the last two)