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    <body><![CDATA[Salinger is very, very high on the sentimental favorites list, which makes this difficult to assess objectively - so let's start with the easy half of this two-novella collection.<br/><br/>Raise High The Roof Beam, Carpenters is wonderful, and while it occasionally dips a little too deeply into th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24760335">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[For as long as I can remember, people have told me that this was the worst of the Salinger collection.  His Godfather III if you will.  Having read it, I'm not sure what the hell they were thinking.  For me, I enjoyed these two stories immensely.  Raise High is written in the style of Franny and Zoo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22040993">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters is an excellent short story that follows Buddy Glass on the day of his brother Seymour's wedding. The characters are compelling, you get to know them intimately in the brief time that you have with them, and the story reveals a little more about the inner working...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5315295">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's an original collection of 2 short stories by JD Salinger.  The first story tells of a twenty-something, Buddy, on the day his older brother, Seymour, is about to get married. Here you learn about the person of Buddy and hints of who Seymour really is as a person.  The cast of characters are raw...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62247669">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I wish I could give this book two different ratings--obviously for the two drastically different stories. As it is I have to settle for subtracting a star from the 5-star rating I would have given this if it had been &quot;Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters&quot; alone.<br/><br/>From a sense of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72064618">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd suggest you read <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4009.Nine_Stories">Nine Stories</a> before you read this one. This book focuses mostly on the Glass family, and Salinger treats them with much more affection than the assortment of characters in Nine Stories. This book is less humorous and more thought-provoking, particularly on matters pertaining to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50177742">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[interesting in that the author (both fictional and Salinger himself) goes insane over the course of the two stories and you can actually watch this happen.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Coming straight to this from Franny and Zooey, I was happy to discover Raise High the Roof Beam also centers around the Glass family. Again, Salinger writes lengthy yet engaging, character-driven scenes. The 90 pages of Raise High are Buddy's story of Seymour's wedding day. It's delightful. <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60301104">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Infinitely more compelling than 'Catcher in the Rye'. Why? Because it can be appreciated minus period contexts. ]]></body>
    
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