Post your top 3 Faulkner novels
>Absalom, Absalom!
>Light in August
>The Sound and the Fury
Absalom Absalom was like, not very good. I love Faulkner and after reading TSATF and AILD I was like "shit this gonna be so good" but it wound up being more like "what is the point of this book"
why did you enjoy it?
>>8205991
Faulkner is too dry of a writer imo
>>8206048
Must have been all that sunbathing...
>>8206016
>what is the point of this book
Do you mind lurking for a couple days before posting? Thanks.
>>8206078
no i was being serious. you can't just rank a book top 3 and not have any reason for it except "everyone on /lit/ likes it bro lurk moar"
most memebooks i have enjoyed. every one actually, except AA. it was written in this heavy gothic style as though something very dark and fucked up was happening, but nothing dark or fucked up was happening. the prose was even infrequently great compared to Faulkners other books.
why, tell me really why you liked the book-- i'm asking in earnest
>>8206179
>and not have any reason for it except "everyone on /lit/ likes it bro lurk moar"
Damn you're stupid. That wasn't the reason at all.
I've read Light in August, As I Lay Dying, and The Sound and the Fury. Besides Absalom Absalom what other Faulkner novels should I read?
>>8206189
okay fine-- I'm an idiot, I have awful taste in literature and I don't deserve to be here--
now why do you like Absalom Absalom?
By the way, i really don't know what the local memebooks are
>>8206199
If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem (Also called The Wild Palms), just because the Old Man sections are great.
"Go Down, Moses", a collection of interrelated short stories. "The Bear" is the best of the lot.
If you end up liking those, then read his pre-war stuff. Post war stuff is pretty bad except for "The Town" and "The Mansion", both part of the Snopes trilogy.
>>8206583
What's your opinion on Fable?
>>8206199
novel notion here: how about read everything he wrote? if you found a writer whose work you really enjoy, why not read his entire ouevre? not trying to pick on you, but i've often wondered why people ask what to read next as if they're clueless to their own predilections.
>>8206600
I was thoroughly defeated by it. Though there were scenes I liked in it (an officer talking about how he was going to go to an island to be a painter like Gauguin, and another officer completely misunderstanding him; the officer that refused to be executed except through his back, to show that he was betrayed) it felt unreadable.
I may try it again in the future, though.
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>>8206212
Lol I love how people on lit don't understand how to respond to a normal question. That guy probably hasn't even read it.
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>>8206836
books aren't works of art anon they're memes at worst and intellectual feats at best.
