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As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
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| R.j. |
Great read.
Having finished Ulysses (and I'm still trying to figure out what it all amounts to) I searched for something similar. As I Lay Dying was recommended, and I have to say, it is, what I'd like to call, "one of those books."
Who else digs? |
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| LoveHate |
| theres a chapter in that book thats only 5 words long! |
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| DJ Shibby |
Finnegan's Wake.
Do it. |
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| Ania_xox |
Wow. Props to you.
I could not, for the love in me, wrap my head around the symbolism in that book. All I got from it was people carrying around a dead body. I almost became depressed reading it.
I have a biased opinion of modern american lit in general though.
I find earlier works less desolate and easier to swallow (Hawthorne, Melville).
Anyway--- I applaud you. May I ask what it is that you enjoy in mad authours like Joyce and Faulkner? I could barely get through "Araby" (short story of about 15 pages)
edit: try Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness |
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| R.j. |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ania_xox
Anyway--- I applaud you. May I ask what it is that you enjoy in mad authours like Joyce and Faulkner? I could barely get through "Araby" (short story of about 15 pages)
edit: try Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness |
The fact that after I put the book down I'm still replaying, over and over, throughout the whole day, what I just read...
I usually read the last chapter I finished, before I continue any further, and by doing that I somehow seem to "get it" more clearly. In reading Ulysses I did that more than often, going back (rather than chapters) scenes. :toothless
In short, it's haunting.
Joyce, on the other hand, it's like reading somebody's drunken soliloquy. :stongue:
And I've already read Heart of Darkness :) Saw Apocalypse Now, too. |
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| R.j. |
| quote: | Originally posted by LoveHate
theres a chapter in that book thats only 5 words long! |
My mother is a fish. |
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| treeboo |
| Personally prefer The Sound & the Fury and Absalom Absalom myself, but definitely a solid book |
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| Cpt.Cocaine |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Shibby
Finnegan's Wake.
Do it. |
Warning: may induce insanity characterized by the uncontrollable compulsion of hitting fragile and valuable things with a baseball bat. |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ania_xox
I have a biased opinion of modern american lit in general though.
I find earlier works less desolate and easier to swallow (Hawthorne, Melville). |
I'm sorry, I know this is a hell of a bump, but really? "The Scarlet Letter" and "Moby Dick" were your idea of fun romps of a read? |
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| Zild |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
I'm sorry, I know this is a hell of a bump, but really? "The Scarlet Letter" and "Moby Dick" were your idea of fun romps of a read? |
Yeah I can't really get into those books, but I really do like the southern gothic and grotesque authors especially Flannery O'Connor, and others like Capote, Tennessee Williams, Twain, and Faulkner. I guess it might be tough to understand that style though if you aren't familiar with the south. |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zild
Yeah I can't really get into those books, but I really do like the southern gothic and grotesque authors especially Flannery O'Connor, and others like Capote, Tennessee Williams, Twain, and Faulkner. I guess it might be tough to understand that style though if you aren't familiar with the south. |
I think that might be true. I like Twain, but I never really got into Faulkner... I think I made an attempt at The Sound And The Fury about three times... and books rarely defeat me like that one did. |
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| Ania_xox |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
I'm sorry, I know this is a hell of a bump, but really? "The Scarlet Letter" and "Moby Dick" were your idea of fun romps of a read? |
I took one American Lit course in my life during which I was required to read 6 novels and several short stories and various poetry.
I HATED Cather and Faulkner so much that Moby Dick seemed doable. I didn't enjoy reading it, but rather studying it. The Scarlet Letter I enjoyed very much.
My favourites of the course would have to be Whitman and Frost. I in love that snowy evening .
I find Whitman's Leaves of Grass to be one of the greatest masterpieces of American lit.
Overall though, I'm a huge suck for the Romantic period and the Victorian Era and everything in between.
Best poet= Percy Shelley
Best author= Jane Austen
Best playwrite= Oscar Wilde |
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