Litsy

so-so

900 hundred pages of Faulkner is a lot. This is the 1951 National Book Award winner, but I didn‘t think it was good sample of Faulkner‘s stuff. It doesn‘t show, in my opinion, how could he can be. But it does occasionally show how frustrating he can be. Unfortunately I was beaten down by this. My favorite stories are at the end (some of which are his earliest stories), but i was kind of worn out by that point.

dabbe I am majorly impressed. I barely got through AS I LAY DYING in AP English way back in the day, and I've never had the courage to try anything else--though “A Rose for Emily“ is one of my all-time favorite short stories. 🫂 3d

Graywacke @dabbe A Rose for Emily is included and maybe the best story. Not sure. As I Lay Dying is fun outside of class. He‘s making fun of everyone in so many creative ways. I encourage you to revisit, school-free 😁 3d

dabbe @Graywacke What would be the first one you'd recommend? All I remember from AS I LAY DYING was the chapter from Vardaman's POV: “My mother was a fish.“ 😳 3d

Graywacke @dabbe well, that is the best line in the book! 🙂 I think The Unvanquished might be a good introduction.

The Unvanquished

dabbe @Graywacke It was indeed memorable! Thanks for the suggestion. 🙌🏻 2d

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Erinreadsthebooks

Light In August | William Faulkner

An old copy of a classic will always catch my attention at a thrift store, and barring any weird smells, it‘s coming home with me. I didn‘t see the notes on the inside covers until after the fact. Pretty sweet surprise! 🙌🤓

Ruthiella My dad has a habit of writing words to look up on the back cover of a book. I doubt he thinks now to just look it up on his phone. To be fair, most of the time he probably doesn‘t know where his phone is, unlike me who has it practically welded to my hand. 😅 2w

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Graywacke

Collected Stories | William Faulkner

I‘ve read the 12 available Booker Prize longlist books. Last one is on preorder. Now starting this.

Suet624 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 3mo

Suet624 Who are you hoping to be on the shortlist? (edited) 3mo

dabbe Color me impressed! 💜🙌🏻🧡 3mo

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Graywacke @Suet624 I‘ll be disappointed if Audition and Seascraper aren‘t on the shortlist. Flesh belongs too. But i‘ve liked literally every book. So i‘ll be forgiving @dabbe thanks! 3mo

Hanna-B Flesh was a marvellous confronting read, a lot of feelings arose 3mo

Graywacke @Hanna-B i was thinking about it (Flesh) constantly for days after i finished … trying to resolve stuff in my head. 3mo

Hanna-B I inhaled it. And know it‘s going to stick with me. A stark tale, unflinching and pragmatic with so many losses 3mo

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Graywacke

Intruder in the Dust | William Faulkner

so-so

This turned out ok. It‘s a lot like The Town, a later Faulkner novel narrated by Charles McCaslin and Gavin Stephens. Personally i hated The Town. This is better. A simple story, with race-relations exploration. A mixed-race man is charged with a murder he didn‘t commit. Everyone is waiting for a lynching. But it‘s Faulkner, so wordy, thick, and slow, with some deep soul searching by the well-educated always wrong Gavin.

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Graywacke

Go Down, Moses | William Faulkner

pick

It anyone were to scroll down my thread, they will notice a post on my starting this 5 months ago. Well, it didn‘t take 5 months. I put it down, paused my Faulkner reading, and started again. I found it unexpected, going ways i did not anticipate. But exceptionally powerful. A rewarding if difficult book. It includes The Bear, a famous Faulkner short story that is novel-sized in the contents. That story does a lot. (But it‘s not my favorite part)

ShelleyBooksie Adorable doggo. 4mo

BarbaraBB Kudus for finishing it. 4mo

Graywacke @ShelleyBooksie 🙂 4mo

Graywacke @BarbaraBB it was worth it 4mo

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Readerann

Go Down, Moses | William Faulkner

This is a single sentence. 😳 (Struggling slightly to get through this book.)
#Faulkner #1001books

BarbaraBB Oh man, I couldn‘t! 5mo

Graywacke 😆 i get it! Faulkner was crazy. 4mo

rebcamuse I‘ve tried to finish The Sound and the Fury twice now… 3mo

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Carla

The Sound and the Fury: Original | William Faulkner

r/classicbookclub announced their next group read. Talk to me, Mr. Faulkner, I‘m joining in.

“I am in awe of Faulkner‘s Benjy, James‘s Maisie, Flaubert‘s Emma, Melville‘s Pip, Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein—each of us can extend the list.... I am interested in what prompts and makes possible this process of entering what one is estranged from.” —Toni Morrison

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Graywacke

Go Down, Moses | William Faulkner

Starting this 1942 novel. Opening 21 pages are terrific.

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Graywacke

The Wild Palms: [If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem] | William Faulkner

so-so

Hmm. Does it work? This novel is actually two separate stories in each in a kind of distinct contrast. Chapters alternate. One is a medical student who abandons his career to run off with a married woman. The other is a convict who gets lost during the 1927 Mississippi flood, and finds himself floating alone in a small boat with a woman in labor.

These stories are ok, but really only for Faulkner completists.

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Graywacke

The Wild Palms: [If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem] | William Faulkner