Is it unadaptable?

Maybe. With the right actor and director - like a young Leonardo DiCaprio, even though the whore says Holden looks like "the kid who fell off the boat in the movie", which was Freddie Bartholomew in Captains Courageous.
But the book is set 70 years ago, and nobody today would identify with him, he's hilariously naive compared to teens his age now, and he was living in a society that doesn't exist - like going to bars openly at 17, and booking a hotel room and getting a whore, and his edgy rebellion is buying a hunting cap and wearing it to school. They'd either film it period - accurate, and nobody would understand or buy into his character, or they'd have to update it...and those movies already exist. It''s a "angry at nothing coming of age" story, been done a million times. (Because Salinger wouldn't sell the rights, most likely.)
I mean, I'd watch it, but I don't think modern audiences would relate to him, or his angst over nothing.

>is it unadaptable?
I found it unreadable desu

Too dull for the 2019 crowd. White males are so last century.

Just have a voice over so the viewer knows what he's thinking and wala

oof

adapting literature is retarded, you lose so much translating prose into pictures

yikes

>Holden had several gfs and even made out with them
WTF suddenly not relatable anymore

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nah they should just let it be silent and moody. his inner feelings would be betrayed by his spergy actions. you don't need a monologue to understand that a teenager calling up a hooker just to talk is incredibly lonely and messed up

No, it's about a prestigious rich kid who basically comes off as a "wow im unique, fukc these sheep" and ditches school. He goes to New York and he really develops into a much more likeable character, starts basically just trying to "figure" shit out. By the end of the book he sort of realises that hey, maybe I should just get on with life and not run away. But yeah, it's basically about a teen who initially is a wanker but becomes a very rational and emotion adult by the end.

eep

zoinks

A word is worth a thousand pictures.

It's just Taxi Driver

tfw no supportive imouto

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Do you think Holden finally managed to kill himself when his sister grew up, got a boyfriend and started to avoid her brother with disgust because he was acting weird?

gadzooks

I've actually thought before anime would be the method by which to adapt it. A lot of anime makes already make use of the character's thoughts as voiceover narration and feature flashbacks prominently. Even look at something like Eva which dealt with similar themes. I'm not saying it'd be any good but it would at least work better because of the established tropes of the medium.

>John Cusack will never be young enough to play the perfect Holden again

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I think even today the scene where he rapes his sister would be too edgy for the silver screen

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Holden raping his sister Phoebe would be too hard to adapt.

I watched Conspiracy Theory the other night. It was fucking terrible.

God I hope so

Is this book worth reading?

remember reading it in school but dont remember that happens

Only thats hes in some college and his roomate have stinky breath and rotten teeths

GiTS SAC

Have read it a dozen times. I'm pretty sure it was Salinger himself who described it as falling off a cliff and never hitting the ground but it's a surprisingly enjoyable tumble.

what if they made a movie called The Nigger in the Rye

I basically am Holden so I can in fact tell you that yes, I am so unique and deep that I am unadaptable.

>Have read it a dozen times
what kind of impression does it leave you with?

Aside from the niggling urge to murder several people who are already dead it's mostly just a comfy read that leaves you very slightly melancholic and wishing time didn't have to move forward, like that feeling when the sun comes up and the birds start tweeting after you've been up all night.

Glad she wised-up Holden.

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Jared leto portrayed Mark David Chapman (Lennon shooter) acting and thinking like Holden. It's the closest we've got I think.

>imagine thinking that they would cast a white guy.

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They'd totally cast the mutt from Detective Pikachu