I thought I would enjoy something a little different ...
Well, this was more than a little different. It was extremely weird. Too weird for me.
It had iI thought I would enjoy something a little different ...
Well, this was more than a little different. It was extremely weird. Too weird for me.
It had its moments that I really enjoyed, but overall, it left me feeling kind of creeped out. For what it's worth, I can understand why a lot of people would really like this. I'm just not one of those people....more
2.7 stars truncated (not rounded) down to 2.0 because WTF!
These are the most memorable quotes from the book:
"My mother is a fish."
"Jewel's mother is a2.7 stars truncated (not rounded) down to 2.0 because WTF!
These are the most memorable quotes from the book:
"My mother is a fish."
"Jewel's mother is a horse."
"Darl is my brother."
William Faulkner is one of those authors one must read in order to be considered a "well read" individual. Even though I have read well over 600 books in the past 20 years, I have never read Faulkner. Likewise, and for the same reason (because I doubt that I will enjoy or appreciate their writing styles), I also have never read James Joyce or the Bronte sisters. Well, this year I determined that I would read something by Faulkner, and I chose what is usually considered his easiest novel, As I Lay Dying.
First of all, I really liked the format. Telling the story from multiple viewpoints and multiple narrators is great. Revealing details slowly as the story unfolds through the thoughts and eyes of the various players kept things interesting and exciting. The story itself was fairly interesting in a morbid sort of way. But the language of nearly every narrator was awful. Nobody, and especially lower-class southern rural folk such as the Bundrens, speaks (or thinks) the way most of the characters are depicted. I felt that the wording and the style was crafted by the author mostly as a show of his pretentiousness -- and serving no other useful purpose. Most of the novel bordered on being incomprehensible, and, for me, it required regular referencing to sparknotes. Even with such useful help as can be found on the internet, I found this book to be too strange and too difficult to properly enjoy or appreciate....more
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