Oh, shit...yeah...lol...I got it. Like I said, I try not to think about it, pretty much blocked it out, lol.

Beg pardon? I can't have my own opinions and taste in art? That makes me a phoney?

Edit: ok, I got it, we're good.

It's boring, pretentious, unnecessarily teen-angsty and Holden Caulfield is the single most insufferable character I've ever encountered. It's just not a good book. I have nothing positive to say about it.

Either autocorrect or it's just an expression the author made up.

Either way, I'm going to try an incorporate "cheeseburger of pain" into my regular sayings whenever possible.

>What did you think of the Catcher in the Rye

I'd prefer not to think of it.

It's like a "what not to do" for any self-published, indie authors.

Let's be real, we all judge a book by its cover to some degree. It may be what draws us in initially or turns us off. if a book has an awful, cheap cover you got to think it reflects on the quality of the work inside. Just take a look at /r/TerribleBookCovers and you rarely see any quality works of literature over there. It's not always the case and sometimes you just get someone's weird idea of art or some design aspects that were trendy at the time of publication but generally speaking, cheap outside, cheap inside. Description, first few pages, random page reading, I give all a go and if it's good enough, despite a lacking cover, I'll give it a try.