What are you reading right now?

TheBig3 · 05-26-2009, 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by adidasss

I tried reading As I lay dying once but the dialect was impenetrable...:\

Yeah Faulkner has been called the best of the 21st, but I can't do it. I tried reading Sound and Fury and I refused.

I don't know what the appeal is but if anyone else tried doing that they'd be laughed out of the room.

lucifer_sam · 05-26-2009, 10:57 PM

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Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog

Yeah Faulkner has been called the best of the 21st, but I can't do it. I tried reading Sound and Fury and I refused.

I don't know what the appeal is but if anyone else tried doing that they'd be laughed out of the room.

because it's a stream of consciousness approach?

it's harder to follow but it gives you a better insight to Faulkner's viewpoint. and with his style of language and free flowing vocabulary it makes for an excellent read.

and i'm surprised Big3, your write in a very loose style yourself; half the time i can barely discern what you're saying. though i'm sure it all makes sense before you put it in writing.

TheBig3 · 05-27-2009, 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by lucifer_sam

because it's a stream of consciousness approach?

it's harder to follow but it gives you a better insight to Faulkner's viewpoint. and with his style of language and free flowing vocabulary it makes for an excellent read.

and i'm surprised Big3, your write in a very loose style yourself; half the time i can barely discern what you're saying. though i'm sure it all makes sense before you put it in writing.

I get this a lot and its got more to do with the fact that I'm doing 8 things at once than my actual style. I blame tabbed web-browsing.

As far as faulkner goes, its not how he writes but the lack of explination associated with it. Its like a ****ing mystery novel ontop of whatever else he's writing.

I mean the whole "He hit. Then he hit. Then he hit it further" that starts S&F drove me absolutly batty.

SATCHMO · 05-27-2009, 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog

I get this a lot and its got more to do with the fact that I'm doing 8 things at once than my actual style. I blame tabbed web-browsing.

As far as faulkner goes, its not how he writes but the lack of explination associated with it. Its like a ****ing mystery novel ontop of whatever else he's writing.

I mean the whole "He hit. Then he hit. Then he hit it further" that starts S&F drove me absolutly batty.

There's something very mystical about Faulkner's writing. He just takes a little getting used to Some of it is more coherent than others. Go Down Moses is a good example, and I think it's probably the best primer for the rest of his work. Absalom, Absalom was VERY tedious reading. There's meta-narratives and other wacked out literary devices running their full course in that book.