Rant: Our book club fight over 'The Goldfinch' got way too personal last month

Watched my buddy and his cousin stop talking for a week after a fight about "Catcher in the Rye." His cousin called Holden a whiny rich kid who needed to get over himself, and my friend took it super personal, like he was defending his own teenage self. They were slamming beers and it just escalated from literary critique to bringing up old family stuff. Took a mutual love of football to get them back in the same room.