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Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
2.0

I feel like I missed something.
What was the point of these stories??
v unsatisfied
Long self indulgent talks
why so many children and adults acting like children?
why is everyone trying too hard to be teasingly mysterious
(and the whole thing with bananafish leading tragic lives... eat too many bananas and die...wow what foreshadow)
seems like the book that would lead you to boycott literature written by white people for a while

the touch of darkness in the stories didn't seem real to me but then again i'm not a white male war vet with PTSD in the 1950s who creeped on some young girls so idk