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This is not for the light reader.
This is truly what literature is supposed (?) to be- a little dense, a little hard to follow- requiring complete absorption into reading it- you cannot multitask or have background noise and read this book and hope to get a single bit out of it.
It is the story of a family, the Compsons, in the years before the Great Depression. They are well to do, with a family of African American servants caring for them. The mother is a hypochondriac who spends all day in bed; ...more
This is truly what literature is supposed (?) to be- a little dense, a little hard to follow- requiring complete absorption into reading it- you cannot multitask or have background noise and read this book and hope to get a single bit out of it.
It is the story of a family, the Compsons, in the years before the Great Depression. They are well to do, with a family of African American servants caring for them. The mother is a hypochondriac who spends all day in bed; ...more
Why do the classics have to be so danged hard to read? I appreciate the story Faulkner is telling us, of how a daughter’s unplanned pregnancy affects her entire family in ways she couldn’t have expected or anticipated. The language at times is simply beautiful. But the stream of consciousness writing is painful to read. I spent a solid month trying to get through this for my book club, and still didn’t exactly finish it. And I apparently didn’t fully understand what I *did* read, because when I
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