Status Updates From Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger

Nos reencontramos Salinger y yo. Mi mejor lectura del año es “Franny y Zooey” por lo que volver a este autor era un hecho para mí. Primer relato leído. No me puedo creer que acaba de leer lo que acabo de leer. Seymour…

Quite like "Down at the Dinghy," a story that builds up a somber mystery and then releases all the tension at the end with a hilarious twist.

OK, “The Laughing Man” is great fun, and a welcome gear change at this point in the collection from tales of how WWII traumatized people.

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“Just Before the War with the Eskimos” is the first of these stories to send me to the Internet to find out what I was supposed to take from the piece. I got that Franklin is damaged but not why, really; either the piece is too subtle or I’m just too far removed from the 1940s to have caught it (or hey, I guess I could just be too thick). Consequently this is the least effective story for me so far.