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Absalom, Absalom!
by William Faulkner
As far as overly long paragraphs go, I’m more of a fan of the way Dostoevsky does it than I am of Faulkner. You can spend a while reading a run on sentence in this book and still have no idea what the purpose is. To me, this book could have been half as long and just as effective.
That being said, the story is compelling once all the layers are peeled away, but that starts to happen in the last 1/3 of the book.
When Quentin, the main narrator, says that you cannot understand the south unless you were born there, it sort of felt like a metaphor for reading this book. It’s not bad, it also didn’t blow me away.
That being said, the story is compelling once all the layers are peeled away, but that starts to happen in the last 1/3 of the book.
When Quentin, the main narrator, says that you cannot understand the south unless you were born there, it sort of felt like a metaphor for reading this book. It’s not bad, it also didn’t blow me away.