RE: The Worst
jordie chambers (jordiekc@rocketmail.com)
Fri, 04 Jun 1999 18:53:06 -0700 (PDT)
As long as you don't make any 'yo mama's so fat...' jokes,
I won't cry. I've got thick skin for eskimo name Atuk.
---"Sean Draine (Exchange)"
<seandr@Exchange.Microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>
> Jordie:
> "I like fiction that can move people, as well as
> inform, and A BOy in France did none of that for me.
> There is definitely something missing from this piece when
> compared to his other stories."
>
> I'll agree that it wasn't Salinger's most well-developed
story.
> I think Salinger get's it right the second time around
in _For
> Esme With Love and Squalor_, which was published in 9
Short
> Stories (it's not in that set you downloaded).
>
> By the way, I've admittedly been a little harsh in this
discussion.
> It's just that I hate seeing any work of art unfairly
panned (neat choice of words. I like that)
>
> -Sean
>
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