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I'll include my old thoughts if I remember any. Salinger because of Robert Smith of The Cure. According to youtube, there is a band named Bananafishbones. Bananafishbones - The Cure I did remember this story. Of course I did.

Old Mariel thoughts: This Muriel girl sucks. I'm interested in all literary Mariels, Muriels, d other avariations on that theme. I draw the line at Mary. Mary-Ellens need not apply either. Who has the time? I don't remember my old thoughts well enough. Did I relate to Seymour more? I think I relate to him more now just because I remember that old me had a massive inferiority complex when it came to precocious kids.

Not that I enjoy the company of three year old girls I've spent enough time in the company of ones related to me. She wasn't all that precocious. Seymour is the permanently precocious. My ex once told me that kids stared at me because they sensed that I was one of them. I don't like him for saying that. I know too well the feeling of talking to people who respond as Seymour and Buddy do to their young girl friends. I get exactly those kinds of responses.

It actually feels really lonely. This wasn't what was in my head while I was rereading in my car. What is special about the precocious? The ability to surprise.

It isn't lack of artifice, or knowing rules. That simply isn't true. The little girl reminded me of mind games that older girls would play on a boyfriend with her jealousy of the younger girl he was friends with. It isn't good, the preoccupation with what other people notice. I don't want to think about relating to Seymour being offended when he thought the girl in the car was looking at his feet. I've said it all before about this thing about strangers. The great things about kids is that they are all strangers.

There's something about talking to strangers who don't know all other threads to heap onto everything else to the point they can't listen to the point of what you're feeling. Maybe I don't really want to talk about suicide on goodreads. It has been in my life. There's a part of my brain that splits: 1. The person who dies.

It's not up to me. Why would anyone want to go on living if they CAN'T go on living? The people left behind. I've almost been them.

I don't want to be them. That stuff I wrote earlier about threads It's too much. This time I was only feeling Seymour side. It's that kinda story. I didn't feel less lonely reading this one. I'm not sure what I felt except I don't know. There's a time when leading someone else to look at bananafish isn't enough, when raising yourself isn't enough. Potential for what, anyway?

Ruh roh, Raggy. If they are all this long this is gonna be a long ass review I didn't have invisible friends. I made friends out of inanimate objects. I've never really and truly stopped doing that. I'll stop ever doing it when I don't feel like that. I loved it when Jimmy gets killed and the little girl immediately replaces him with a new best friend. When a little kid I maimed my paper Care Bear doll cut his leg off and then couldn't stop crying over the loss of his leg with vows of never hurting him again.

I feel an affinity with Ramona. I'm sure she killed him for the tragedy of it all. Or it really was the dog's fault. I had a depressing feeling off this one. Maybe I get this from other Salinger females, like their good times end when they pretend not to be young anymore?

I loved it when the mom, Eloise, wants reassurement of her past from her college friend, Mary Jane. What is the fun in being a dinner party person, anyway?

Cocktails, dinner parties: same difference. Just Before the War with the Eskimos : No confessions. I'm not admitting to once writing a really bad story about an eskimo. I found reassuring so much the details like Selena coming back in a dress when she had been wearing shorts. Even if it didn't annoy Ginnie as it normally would have. I'd have been steamed. I hate waiting. I hate waiting soooo much. I hate it when people know you are waiting and run errands and shit.

It gives me a sick and frustrated feeling. I hope Ginnie will appreciate others noticing the interesting details, and how they put them, in more worthier people than Selena, her brother or his friend. What a shame. Younger me probably felt sad that she crushed on a guy who liked her probably prettier and more socially at ease sister.

I probably also noted that Eric spoke like someone Holden would find annoying his "grand" and all. I've always wanted to save people in stories from uninteresting characters. The Eskimos will go after the French first.

Maybe they don't wanna be named after a dessert cake any longer. The Laughing Man : Confession: Talk of athetlics of any kind usually make my eyes glaze over. I admit to having an "Oh fuck" moment. I'm a jerk. I loved this story. I feel so much impatience with stories about beautiful people.

It means fuck all to me to read the word beautiful. In this story the Chief and his Mary Hudson are beautiful like heroes of memory, and of stories. I feel embarrassed trying to describe this. I loved the Laughing Man stories that he told the kids. You know what? I haven't done a list in ages. Coolest bus drivers: 1. Chief 2. Otto from The Simpsons It occurs to me now that Bus-Driver Stu holding the kids hostage to his relationship problems might've been a nod to this story.

Pete and Pete makes me happy like almost nothing else does. It's like ideals like how The Laughing Man does beauty. Not definitions, just living as day to day without reading the rules first. I suck at describing this. If I were them I'd never forget those stories either.

Down at the Dinghy : My confessions are embarrassing. I'm not gonna tell the story of when I tried to run away. It's not a nice story like this one.

I didn't remember this story despite once naming a bird I took care of after Boo Boo. It must be great to have a mom like Boo Boo. I was too close in age to Esme, perhaps. I was probably jealous of Esme because she was so smart for her age I may as well confess that smart kids make me feel really bad about being a dumb adult.

No poise either. But that doesn't matter at all. Old me! It was so sweet the way the brother and sister were with each other. How Esme missed her father she was likely jealous of her mama so I wasn't that unusual as a teen, I guess Anyway, it made me happy how happy Buddy is to have his letter.

I'm glad that he wrote his story and engaged more than his brother did with his girl friends. Friendships should be more than something the other cannot understand. I felt bad for Arthur It makes me uncomfortable to hear about them. There's nothing I can do for them. You know? I did read that PJ Harvey made a nod to this story title in her song Angelene. This is one of my all-time favorite Peejay songs. Thanks, wikipedia trivia! De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period : "The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.

Blame my desperate impatientness for something Maybe I want a life affirming day that beats any bananafish day, or anything. Something more sustaining.

What the hell is gonna happen next? Teddy : Teddy is right. It isn't so good that way, loving for the sake of loving.

But I do think too much. I wonder how Seymour would like talking to Teddy. He'd meditate and not give practiced answers, for sure. No pet nothing. Number two reasons this time. The little girl Number one too. It's complicated. It did help.

I'll always need more. I think, though, that Salinger didn't owe anybody to publish anything. That's exhausting. Not any more than Seymour did with what he put out. I guess it's not always a perfect day for bananafish. I'm so glad these were published, though. I needed them like Buddy. It's not all a smile. I've already said that lame-o stuff about my Peanuts emotions.

That's the best I've got. I wish I had better. Number one and number two reasons. View all 7 comments. Nov 23, Jeanette Ms. Feisty rated it it was amazing Shelves: all-fiction , classics , short-stories , extraordinary-prose , to-be-read-again. This is one of "those" 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 30, ratings for this book here on Good Reads. The average of all those ratings is 4. Nothing I could say would be more convincing than that. Read it and marvel. I think I liked these best because I love the way Salinger writes about childre This is one of "those" books.

I think I liked these best because I love the way Salinger writes about children. Tender and charming without ever being cutesy. I fell in love with the precocious Esme within the space of a few pages. I wanted a whole book about her! Down at the Dinghy features a sensitive little boy in self-exile on the family dinghy, and the way his mother gently coaxes him to come back up to the house. This is Salinger's true geniuscreating perfect word pictures of ordinary events. Nine Stories should be required study for every creative writing program.

An unpretentious, seemingly effortless, utterly original voice. Seymour is the eldest child of that family, and always referred to in the past tense or at a remove in Salinger's other works.

This is your one chance to see him while he's still alive. His sweet, gentle nuttiness with the little girl on the beach is especially touching. I haven't read any Salinger in many years and this was on my shelf for over a year before I actually read it.

I'm so glad I finally picked it up. Each story was a good length, entertaining and clever. Overall these were my kinds of short stories I also liked how they related to Salingers other work including Franny and Zooey I haven't read any Salinger in many years and this was on my shelf for over a year before I actually read it.

Overall these were my kinds of short stories I also liked how they related to Salingers other work including Franny and Zooey Feb 06, Sara rated it it was amazing Shelves: short-stories-novellas. Reading this short story collection helps me to understand why Salinger was hounded to the ends of the earth in an effort to make him write again. His characters are so poignant and so real; his children so precocious and on the brink of something wholly indefinable.

I bought the book with a desire to revisit For Esme - With Love And Squalor and found it as captivating and moving as I had remembered, but the unexpected treasures of The Laughing Man and Teddy left me breathless. Salinger knows co Reading this short story collection helps me to understand why Salinger was hounded to the ends of the earth in an effort to make him write again.

Salinger knows complete sorry, desperation and irony when he finds it. As we peep into the world of his characters, who smoke their endless cigarettes, carry on their conversations of double meaning, and attempt to connect with others, we cannot help nodding in recognition of the knowledge that this is a microcosm of the human condition.

Aug 16, Ken rated it really liked it Shelves: finished-in , short-story-collection , classics-reread. This collection of stories sent me back. I read them long ago and half expected to be "sent back" by memory cells saying, "Oh, yeah.

I recall this one," but, no. Not a one. Past the sleepy town of Vague, even. What sent me back was time and place. Can't say if it's ME when I read them at so young an age or the stories, which struck me as being paradoxically quaint yet sophisticated at the same time.

I made an update saying it reminded me of black and white film. All those dates from the 50s. My This collection of stories sent me back. My earliest recollections are the early 60s, but that's close enough. All those hats and librarian-like cat glasses. Thin ties. Thin people processed food and sugar still hadn't caught up with us. Even the later 60s bother me. The grainy color footage of people waving goodbye to the train carrying RFK.

My God. The stories, though. His characters talk, therefore they are. And they say things like wudja and whatcha and things like that. And, as I noted in his other book, Salinger hyphenates to prove the mettle of his ear. Often he'll populate the stories with children, some bratty advisable and some precocious less so. Only Teddy in the last story grates a bit. And the interactions between adults and children in the first and last story seem naive by today's "stranger danger" standards.

That's a bit of lost innocence, too, given that the adults in these stories have only good intentions. Coolest of all is how J. He can do the flashback. He can do chronology. He can get philosophical in a Buddhist kind of way. He can use the news such as wartime stories , he can be funny, and he can be shocking first story, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" being a perfect example. So maybe I was ready. In the right mood to revisit this particular book.

Maybe, in its meditative way, it took me back to simpler times -- even though both Salinger and I know those times were no more simple than our own tortured times. Glad I impulse-picked it up. The itch met its cratch. Until next time, Nine Stories. Maybe in , if you're not doing anything and I'm not on my Teddy-like 53rd reincarnation. View all 18 comments. Apr 23, Helle rated it really liked it Shelves: books-i-own , short-stories , american.

A slightly mixed bag of stories with some gems among them, notably A Perfect Day for Bananafish and, especially, Teddy. And Salinger was a master of the quirky, zany dialogue full of 50s slang, non sequiturs and sarcastic repartees. There were laugh-out-loud moments, there were bizarre moments where I had no idea what he was on about, there was hyperbole galore, and there was much of the s swa A slightly mixed bag of stories with some gems among them, notably A Perfect Day for Bananafish and, especially, Teddy.

There were laugh-out-loud moments, there were bizarre moments where I had no idea what he was on about, there was hyperbole galore, and there was much of the s swagger that I first met and loved in The Catcher in the Rye. Once or twice I suspected the narrator was more or less unreliable, and this, too, of course viz.

She looked as if her phone had been ringing continually ever since she had reached puberty. Stick around. I may need a goddam transfusion. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. Recommended for people who like Salinger and short stories.

View all 17 comments. I was surprised by just how good some of these stories turned out to be, after not getting my hopes up for anything that special. And as a fan of the short-stories of John Cheever, Raymond Carver, and Richard Yates, Salinger sits in this company pretty well, in creating brief snapshots of life that capture glittering sharp moments, generally focusing on adults encountering overly aware, truth-telling children.

The heart of each story is set to the beat of its characters accounts of the way in w I was surprised by just how good some of these stories turned out to be, after not getting my hopes up for anything that special. The heart of each story is set to the beat of its characters accounts of the way in which they move through the world and interact with one another, from their confidential phone-calls and wisecracking conversations, to the cautious articulation of their understated feelings and nascent beliefs.

Salinger's characters are chosen chiefly for their capacity to spark potent dialogue. And the heavy dialogue used in some of the stories just works superbly well. Vividly told, with gentle humour and a heightened sense of emotion, this collection opens with the stunning 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish', and sets the scene for the other eight stories, all of which ranged from good to very good.

There was also a little bit of Scott Fitzgerald in there, just less on the love travails. Feb 15, Julie rated it it was amazing Shelves: in-short. This is my 3rd read of this short story collection. Anyone who knows me well knows that Salinger is my be all, end all.

I have a complete and passionate bias. This collection of 9 short stories were written in the years following WWII and most were originally published in the leading magazines of the day. They are a true time capsule of post-war life in the lates, earlys, and you can't hardly read them without a cigarette in one hand and a highball in another.

What is brilliant, a This is my 3rd read of this short story collection. What is brilliant, absolutely brilliant about these stories. What you learn, quickly, about these intriguing characters. You are the fly on the wall. Jan 23, Tristan rated it really liked it. Would it just be an assortment of variations on Holden Caulfield? I feared the worst. Boy was I happy to be proven wrong. Talk about rising to low expectations, huh? How I wish now that the scholastic "authorities" had assigned us this instead of that boorish novel.

In that case, I wouldn't have had to look up an online summary to pass my bloody test. In fact, I might have even been stupid enough to found a hipsterish J. Salinger worship cult. A missed opportunity, I tell ya! These subtle tales are replete with memorable, flawed, authentic non-irritating!

Not a dud in the bunch. Turning the last page, it is hard not to feel a pang of sadness, of irretrievable loss. One wishes Salinger had foregone the infamous reclusiveness that beset his last 45 years and had written more of these. What masterpieces the world has missed out on as a result can only be guessed at. Feb 26, Ben rated it really liked it Shelves: read-in , short-stories , good-fiction. Most of these stories make a statement or two, or more about how our past, and our interactions with each other, affect our lives.

I had this feel that in some way, the stories represented our disconnections from one another, from reality, and from full knowledge; the slippery grasp we have of our perceptions, and our tendency to judge too quickly. Salinger often gets this across through arresting dialogue among individuals, typically with at least one of the individuals in some way being Most of these stories make a statement or two, or more about how our past, and our interactions with each other, affect our lives.

Salinger often gets this across through arresting dialogue among individuals, typically with at least one of the individuals in some way being "different" from your "normal" standards. Entering the inner world of a Salinger character is an experience everyone should have. Salinger shows this in some beautiful ways and eventually, by the end of the story, you see a special side to these people.

Characters that at first seemed ridiculous and entertaining end up making you see something in them. That they see the world in specifically different ways from us adults?

And aren't some of these paradigms innocent, beautiful, and pure? Or maybe it's exactly because they don't have a paradigm, that this is the case. While we can't escape from all of our preconceived notions, they are free from them. A lot of the endings to these stories are phenomenal. They always contain a surprise, sometimes with room for broad interpretation; typically making you think and reflect.

And, if your experience is like mine, you then continue to reflect and question your perceptions of the story further. By the way, my star ratings per story are in the picture above, just to the left of each story listed.

You can change Teddy from a 4. It started as a 4; I thought about it more, and gave it a 4. After reading this I can further see how Salinger has a following that loves him. His characters are unusual and intriguing, and his way of viewing the world is special and ingenious. This is a book you should get a hold of. View all 30 comments. Hadn't read this one in years and had completely forgotten at least two stories, plus the fact that every tale is in large part about estrangement and fraudulence.

Bananafish and the title story are still extraordinary -- and still impossible to fathom in terms of just how they work their magic. However, this is not a tragic situation, in my opinion. The happiest day of my life was many y Hadn't read this one in years and had completely forgotten at least two stories, plus the fact that every tale is in large part about estrangement and fraudulence.

The happiest day of my life was many years ago when I was seventeen. I was on my way for lunch to meet my mother, who was going out on the street for the first time after a long illness, and I was feeling ecstatically happy when suddenly, as I was coming in to the Avenue Victor Hugo, which is a street in Paris, I bumped into a chap without any nose.

I ask you to please consider that factor, in fact I beg you. It is quite pregnant with meaning. Mar 06, Matthew Quann rated it liked it Shelves: short-story-collections , short-story-challenge Like many people, my first exposure to Salinger was Catcher in the Rye discussed in a high school class with unenthusiastic students.

I remember the book polarizing the class, and I was firmly on the side of our boy Holden Caulfield being an overall turd and obnoxious narrator. Looking back on that experience, I felt like I had missed out on enjoying some part of important literature. When I came across Nine Stories in a Michael Chabon novel , I decided to dip my toes back into Salinger's limited Like many people, my first exposure to Salinger was Catcher in the Rye discussed in a high school class with unenthusiastic students.

Nine Stories , then, was a decidedly more enjoyable experience than my previous educational exposure. These stories have the feeling of a low-budget indie movie: cracks are showing along the masks that Salinger's characters present to the world and you wonder if they will crumble.

The opening story, A Perfect Day for Bananafish , seems quite standard until the final line left me stunned with its cool delivery of personal collapse. Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut and Just Before the War With the Eskimos present interesting female leads who seem to be wrestling with their place in the world and their very nature. Salinger uses dialogue throughout Nine Stories to convey heaps of information.

His portrayal of characters is sparse and you'll find physical descriptions largely absent from these stories. In perhaps my favourite and definitely the funniest! In the aforementioned A Perfect Day for Bananafish , the opening dialogue that at first seems so disconnected from the second half of the story is brought into relief by its closing lines. Much like my foray into Alice Munro's short stories , I found Nine Stories to be a bit of a mixed bag.

Some of the stories in this collection were stunning-- Teddy is up there with some of the coolest I've read this year--while others failed to keep me excited to keep going. Such is the gamble with a short story collection: you might not like every story!

All the same, there's more in here that I appreciate than dislike, and my dislike is only minor. These stories didn't all blow me away as much as some other collections I've read this year, but they're still pretty damned good. I waffled between a three and four star rating on this one, and am going to go with a strong three, but very close to four.

I'd recommend this short collection for anyone looking to take down a classic or reevaluate their opinion of Salinger! Jul 12, Dan rated it it was amazing.