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3.54 AVERAGE
3.54 AVERAGE
I thought Woolf was difficult to read. Faulkner is worse.
I get it - this is brilliant and groundbreaking and we owe so many of the movements of modern fiction to Faulkner. I love the reasons behind his bizarre choices and strange, incoherent stream-of-consciousness, and recognize Faulkner as a true visionary author. Nonetheless, I found this book needlessly tedious and it was not for me.
Book 3 for my Twentieth Century fiction class.
I get it - this is brilliant and groundbreaking and we owe so many of the movements of modern fiction to Faulkner. I love the reasons behind his bizarre choices and strange, incoherent stream-of-consciousness, and recognize Faulkner as a true visionary author. Nonetheless, I found this book needlessly tedious and it was not for me.
Book 3 for my Twentieth Century fiction class.
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Rape, Abortion
challenging
dark
funny
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It’s a hot mess. Confusing writing style. Doesn’t work in 2021. It’s books like these that turn kids away from reading. Appears to be written when he was on meth
dark
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
At first glance, my admiration succeeded my love for it, but there is no doubt that Faulkner's latticework is surfeited with generous, expansive humanity, and rich, vivid perspective. (Maybe a low bar, but the fact that Faulkner doesn’t skip a beat when writing from a female perspective shows great maturity and understanding too.) Arguably too easy to hate Anse and there is one big event that feels contrived, but man, even though I'm not immediately moved by it, there is a sense of recognizing something immensely moving nonetheless. (Certainly not without its gallows humor either.) Addie might be the ultimate centripetal force of the novel, but it is the vivid sound of Cash's rhythmic sawing in the distance in the early chapters, an almost pigheadedly stoic and pragmatic reaction, that will stay with me. Can't wait to read this again.