Re: too many roads not enough refreshment stands

Thanks for the links -- as usual, you came through with good stuff.

Yeah, it's a pity he chose to republish only 9 of the 30 available at
the time. I understand the decision -- it's hard for me to say that
anything I've read in the underpublished so far is up to the level of
any, or at least most, of the 9 stories. "Inverted Forest" was pretty
interesting to me, though -- I think it could stand up against "Uncle
Wiggly" and "Down at the Dinghy" as storytelling, though, and is a lot
better than "Hapworth."

I tend to agree with the second reviewer's estimates of the stories -- I
think "Pretty Mouth" and "For Esmé" are remarkable (better than Catcher,
actually, if you can compare a short story with a novel), the rest
almost so in varying degrees.

Jim

Kim Johnson wrote:

>(there are two original reviews of 'nine stories' online):
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/09/13/specials/salinger-stories01.html
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/09/13/specials/salinger-stories02.html
>
>i'll look forward to jim's comments on the underpublisheds. as i recall it was his reading which set off the 'inverted forest' thread.
>
>kim
>

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