http://steelwhitetable.org/2005/10/08/the-best-of-jd-salinger/ Brothers on the edge. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:51:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://steelwhitetable.org/2005/10/08/the-best-of-jd-salinger/#comment-6295 Ashley Tue, 11 Oct 2005 21:59:41 +0000 http://steelwhitetable.org/blog/?p=1761#comment-6295 You have hit it exactly right. "Nine Stories" is some of the most brilliant, compact, yet accessible literature ever written and, like Hemingway, Salinger's short stories <i>far</i> outshine his novels. I'm even at almost total disagreement with most of the underlying philosophy and suppositions of half the stories and I still find them undeniably powerful. You have hit it exactly right. “Nine Stories” is some of the most brilliant, compact, yet accessible literature ever written and, like Hemingway, Salinger’s short stories far outshine his novels. I’m even at almost total disagreement with most of the underlying philosophy and suppositions of half the stories and I still find them undeniably powerful.

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