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Alright, just finished a required reading so I thought a little textual catharsis might help. Just read Barn Burning, not gonna base my entire opinion of Faulkner on it but, nevertheless, I fucking hated it. I found it to be disgustingly over-worded, which provided beautifully illustrative and poignant imagery in some cases, but each positive outcome of this style is washed out by the same significance given to everything else. Just my opinion, couldn't stand the thing, found it agony incarnate.

But it did give me this idea. /Lit/! Vent your frustrations and protect your heroes!

>> No.2430555

Franzen is a faggot. He literally stops the book to preach to you about the environment. I thought people were exaggerating before I read Freedom.

>> No.2430580

>>2430555
> sub-urban social realism
> white people problems

Franzen is fucking awful. Plus he literally through a hissy fit when Oprah promoted The Corrections and then he turns around for Freedom.

>>2430542
Read A Light in August or Go Down, Moses (it's not about oral sex)

>> No.2430582

>>2430542
Condensed Faulkner is typically not best Faulkner.

Try one of his great novels:
The Sound and the Fury (highly recommended), Absalom Absalom!, As I Lay Dying, or Light in August

The pacing is much better with his longer works. I think his style just lends itself to lengthy stuff. Absalom Absalom! is my favorite of these, but you have to have a working knowledge of Civil War history and the kjv Bible for it to really blow your mind. Basically, you need to BE a southerner.

Best of luck!

>> No.2430590

i work a low wage food job in my hometown and don't write anymore. i don't have many heroes nowadays, i think it's a part of the problem. the guys in animal collective seem like pretty cool dudes, though. i used to idolize bukowski in high school, but i ended up finding he taught too simply, to the point of immature thought. i'm pretty high right now and i read "The Prophet" these days, and it's a powerful, small book. it helps me.

>> No.2430601

>>2430582

Thank you, I've been trying not to judge him on this because his other books seem to have such promise by concept. I was considering The Sound and The Fury, but you know how it is reading list up to here *indicates just above knee*.

>> No.2430613

>>2430580

False Franzen claims. 'Literally through a hissy fit?' Hahaha

>> No.2430647

sounds like he's a negro loving liberal.