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thoughts

>> No.11387368

I loved the first two stories and have yet to read the rest

>> No.11387611

>>11387356
Bananafish
Esme With Love and Squalor and
Laughing Man were all tits

Teddy was fake
And gay

>> No.11387772

uncle wiggily is probably my favorite short story

>> No.11387790

Best to worst
>De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period
>A Perfect Day for Bananafish
>Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut
>For Esmé with Love and Squalor
>Teddy
>The Laughing man
>Just Before the War with the Eskimos
>Down at the Dinghy
>powergap
>Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes

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>>11387356
Little brain: ranking the stories in terms of quality.
Medium brain: tracing themes and symbols in and out of the stories.
Big brain: reading the collection as a novel rather than a series of stories.
Galaxy brain: lol this is just boneless Dubliners.

>> No.11387925

>>11387790
Blue Period was definitely the best.

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>> No.11387939

The Laughing Man was legit my favourite in school. Just the fact Salinger decided to a pulp novel series in the middle of one of his stories always made me want to write the way he did.

>> No.11389211

>>11387356
Thoroughly enjoyed.