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    <body><![CDATA[If I can get serious for a moment, and cast aside the brittle, smartassed, persona that the social networking aspect of goodreads tends to bring out, I'd like to try to express what it is that drives me in this life. It is the following belief, instilled primarily by my mother, an exceptionally smar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2690840">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Salinger's &quot;Nine Stories&quot; should be renamed &quot;How to Write Short Stories.&quot; While many hold up &quot;Catcher in the Rye&quot; as the zenith of his achievements for me it will always be this wistful and brave little book. I re-read it two or three times or year. I love it that much....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/175415">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[simply my best friend during a 21 day 1,800 mile solo road trip along the Oregon coast--14 years ago, after my mother's passage.  i was 33 and this was the first time i had gonw anywhere and done anything alone like this ever.  this book dined with me for lunch and dinner--charming and a delight.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17771155">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of &quot;those&quot; books.  The ones where I turn the final page and sigh and wonder how I can convince other people that it's worth reading.  Consider this:  There are 17,261 ratings for this book here on Good Reads.  The <em>average</em> of all those ratings is 4.18.  Nothing I could say would...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78819123">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Everyone has his or her own personal journey to follow. As a friend or relative, you can be there for them, offer advice and caution them when you see danger, but in the end, each person has to make a choice about how to live their lives. Only something inside of you will make a difference in you.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2058964">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first and last of JD Salinger's Nine Stories are the best - A Perfect Day for a Bananafish and Teddy.  All the stories have something to offer, though.  I like Salinger's writing because he doesn't offer a tidy beginning or end.  It's like he's saying &quot;Here's the tidbit I'm giving you, so w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/163482">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my favorite Salinger book. It's a collection of his stories, most or all of which appeared in THE NEW YORKER from about 1947 to 1960 or so.<br/>I find a definite erotic appeal in these stories. The characters sit in bed, cradling the phone, smoking cigarettes in an eternal Sunday morning. Y...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2197161">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is, I think, Salinger's best book. Begins and ends with a suicide, but oh well! In particular, &quot;Perfect Day for Bannanafish&quot; and &quot;For Esme with Love and Squalor&quot; and, maybe, &quot;Teddy,&quot; are just amazing stories. There are about 15 stories I've read in my life that see...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/667727">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If kidnappers had snatched up J D Salinger some time in the early 1970s, driven like mad badgers through the night and the next day too and imprisoned him in a small but pleasant room somewhere near Boise, furnished him with with all mod cons, and told him he wasn't going anyplace soon untill he's f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59195068">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Searching the gamut of American literature will find you no author like J.D. Salinger, the master of layering highly debated topics into morose stories of all sorts.  This collection of - as suggested by the title - nine short stories is my favorite work by the well-known penman.  I recommend this w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38293800">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am kinda torn. The stories are rather varied and subtle, so its kinda pointless to go into at breif what I learned from the book; I would much rather review it. But I feel pretty inexpert at approaching these stories. They are rather short and I am a poor judge of short stories. They arn't incredi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28995140">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Salinger is my favorite author and a part of me wishes Catcher in the Rye wasn't as popular as it is, because it overshadows his other works. Holden isn't even a character of repeated focus; the Glass family is his true work of art. Some of the tales in Nine Stories are Glass pieces, and when you co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3191070">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I hadn't read anything by Salinger since Catcher In The Rye in high school.  You can draw the conclusion that I didn't think much of Catcher.  I preferred to catch 22's than children in the rye at the time, and then I moved on to Eggers' cynic with a heart of gold worldview rather than lingering on ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51909047">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was required to read this book in my 9th grade Honors English class. Looking back on it, I think that was a mistake on the part of my teacher because at the age of 14 I lacked enough experience and knowledge to understand or appreciate this book. It wasn't until I re-read it in my 30's that the su...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50177384">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've never read Salinger aside from the ubiquitous Catcher In The Rye. So on a whim I picked up the rest of his back catalogue. There's something nice being able to pick up the entire work of an author for about twenty five bucks. <br/><br/>I was pleased with the results of the first book. Though ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28284678">more...</a>]]></body>
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