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Most of you probably know J. D. Salinger for his famous novel that has become a mandatory reading in many schools, The Catcher in the Rye . However, most people forget that despite what they felt about that book, Salinger has written many other, different ones, and it took more than one piece of work in order to get him recognized as an internationally-celebrated author. Without a doubt, Nine Stories is one of those works that helped him to achieve his status. As you can probably tell by the title, the book is a collection of nine different stories, only related by themes and not by plot. These include “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” , “Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut” , “Just Before the War with the Eskimos” , “The Laughing Man” , “Down at the Dinghy” , “For Esme -- With Love and Squalo” , “Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes” , “De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period” , and “Teddy” .

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger has become such a highly-praised novel that it has even been made into a mandatory reading for various school systems around the world. However, despite it being seen as one of the greatest classics of literature, there are many, many people who see this book as being boring and unworthy of its status.  Well, everyone is certainly entitled to their opinion, but the problem, the way I see it at least, is that most people don’t really have any well thought-out arguments to support their complaints of the book being boring.