“I finished Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger. I hated it!

I hated every single story in this book. The stories are filled with precocious children with crazy ideas. The author’s vocabulary is limited to G.damn. His writing totally irritated me. I’m glad I’m finished with it, and I’ll certainly never recommend it to anyone.”

— Rexanna Hamm, journal entries, June 19, 1992