***Note: this review assumes that you've read the book.*** One-Sentence Summary: I labored over this short book, wondered whether it was the product of genius, or arrogance and pretension, but ultimately felt enriched by reading it. Really, this is the most difficult book I've ever read. I had t...
The title is perfect, as it describes how I felt reading it. Or, well, no. Maybe not. Maybe "The Sound and the Fury" would be better, as I was swearing aloud and gnashing my teeth while reading. Of course, that's how I reacted trying to read the book that actually is called that. But I at least mana...
Reading classics is so hit or miss. Will I like them and understand what all the fuss is about, or will I be one of the one's scratching their head and thinking "So what?" And yes, I did enjoy this novel, but I would need to read it again just to get all of the subtle references that I missed the ...
This is the second book I've read by William Faulkner. My first, Intruder in the Dust, was assigned me in high school and was my introduction both to Faulkner and to the stream-of-consciouness technique. It wasn't a happy experience in either respect. Now, soon after tackling Joyce's Ulysses, consid...
The story follows a rural Southern family that deals with the practical and emotional concerns of waiting for the mother to die, then the burial. It tells the story through many eyes, with each character's first-person narrative in the mindset of how he or she thinks and acts, which usually contradi...
I am feeling totally inadequate to the task of reviewing this book. It's only the second Faulkner I've read, and while I enjoyed Absalom, Absalom, it didn't quite utterly astound me the way this one did. I was expecting the run-on sentences and outright rejection of periods that I found in the first...
Have to put this one on hold for now. Love Faulkner's style, but the subject matter is a little too depressing for me right now. Will get to it again later.
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