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Giving this a preliminary 4 stars, only because it's such a challenging read, I'm still trying to pull it all together. I could imagine that with a re-read this could go up to a 5 star, but it def requires additional input that other novels do not. But, hey, that's modernism for you.
There's a lot to like here, but you have to work hard for it. Which is not a bad thing, but this was a slow read because it has to be. Faulkner reaches great moments, but those are so disjointed that the whole doesn' ...more
There's a lot to like here, but you have to work hard for it. Which is not a bad thing, but this was a slow read because it has to be. Faulkner reaches great moments, but those are so disjointed that the whole doesn' ...more
I've tried to read this several times in my life, and I finally did it. Not sure about it. Faulkner loves tragedy (and hates punctuation), so the writing is dramatic, sometimes just fabulous. The rest of it is painful, confusing, and depressing.
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