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3.87 AVERAGE
3.87 AVERAGE
Really difficult prose that is sometimes beautiful but mostly just confusing. Hoping I can pick this book up again one day because the setting, characters, and overall tragedy really hooked me but I couldn’t get past the long winding sentences and confusing narration. I didn’t even absorb half the words on the page because each sentence has like four ideas wrapped into it divided by ten commas and dashes.
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Moderately interesting story but abhorred the writing.
Maybe at another time. It's very repetitiv and every Charakter has the same voice. Can't be bothered by their story
Because even someone with the pronoun control of a 3 year old can write beautiful things.
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I thought this book would be perfect for me, with its recursive and elliptical structure, the crafting of the prose, and above all its emphasis on the unknowability of history (And no way to know what happened then—/none at all—unless, of course, you improvise:) since that is one of my very favourite themes, but I found it to be the complete opposite.
It is incredible stylistic, true, but I thought it was too obtuse. I could find no way in, I kept bouncing off so many characters who seemed cyphers rather than people, and after a while, that became maddening to me, especially since I think the style of the novel may have been better suited to something mostly prose than something mostly dialogue. I only kept reading to the end because I refused to admit that the book had defeated me, especially since so many people who are smarter than me rate Faulkner so highly—and that's not really a terribly good reason to keep reading a book. Let's chalk up another one to the inadequacy of my brain—I dread to think of the final tally.
It is incredible stylistic, true, but I thought it was too obtuse. I could find no way in, I kept bouncing off so many characters who seemed cyphers rather than people, and after a while, that became maddening to me, especially since I think the style of the novel may have been better suited to something mostly prose than something mostly dialogue. I only kept reading to the end because I refused to admit that the book had defeated me, especially since so many people who are smarter than me rate Faulkner so highly—and that's not really a terribly good reason to keep reading a book. Let's chalk up another one to the inadequacy of my brain—I dread to think of the final tally.