Is it normal the thing i turned out to hate, i happen to be like a lot?

When I was a teenager, I hated one of my next-door neighbors for absolutely no apparent reason. My mom said that she didn't understand why, because the neighbor reminded her of me. My therapist at the time told us that the reason why I hated my neighbor was precisely because the neighbor was like me, and I didn't like it.

tl;dr - sometimes we just hate people or things that remind us of ourselves.

I'm sure Holden himself would hate "Catcher in the Rye."

tastes change.

i use to love that book but now it's hard for me to read it because I think holden is a phony as the people he complains about. which is probably the point of the book anyway

You probably secretly hate your bad qualitities and since you mentioned that your a hypocrite thats probably why you hate the character in the story.

Lol, I didn't hate that book but I thought it was overrated and didnt understand why so many people liked it. I mean, I totally understand how he's depressed, doesn't feel like he fits in with most people or whatever, but I thought that was a fairly common feeling for kids of his age, I guess thats why everyone likes it, but to me it's message was already obvious. it was a funny book though. an yeah, scrotie mcboogerballs haha

I'm glad I wasn't made to read it in school. When I chose to read it for myself, it's one of the few books where I was completely tuned in from the very first paragraph. I just loved his voice.

You could class Holden as spoilt, depressed, bratty, childish, but I forgive him all of that because he's really, really funny. I love the way he sees things.

I know it's a sad book with a sad ending but it's been a book I've loved from the moment I started reading.

What's strange to me is a female liking it. You're the first I've known of. People I've recommended it to have found it very alien and very male. But I think most men have an element of Holden, most of us are blocked off and don't see things as plainly as women, and most of us have similar viewpoints whether we express them as wittily as Holden or not.

P.S. I was made to read Great Expectations and despised it. I love it now, though.

Great book. I find the things I hate most in other people are the qualities I do not like about myself. I think it's normal.

The Catcher in the Rye is an amazing book, I think a lot of people can relate to Holden.

Uh, when I was pregnant, the father wanted to name the baby Holden if it was a boy. Holden Coltrane Lastname. Ha