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What's your favorite chapter from this book?

>> No.16792071

>>16790884
The first one mogs the whole book

>> No.16792444

1, but 2 is a close second

>> No.16792614

Jason’s chapter is so underrated and is Faulkner at his funniest

>> No.16792835

>>16790884
Reading this right now and I have to say I am enjoying it so much less than all the other Faulkner I've read, save maybe The Unvanquished. Don't know how anyone could say its better than Absalom

>> No.16792867

>>16790884
I really enjoyed Jason's chapter (and the epilogue with the black maid, forgot her name). You just really get the sense that this epic Southern dynasty has been reduced to a brutish moron scurrying about, losing his money and getting outsmarted by a teenage girl. When the black maid talks about how she'd seen the beginning and the end, you really feel like you've seen the decay yourself. Like watching a jenga tower fall in slow motion.

>> No.16792870

I have not read this book.

>> No.16792887 [DELETED] 

>>16790884
That guy on the cover is getting some BBC hard, goddamn.

>> No.16792923

>>16790884
anytime the carpenter is talking about his festering leg

>> No.16792946

Every chapter is monumentally good. Love Absalom but the variety of voices in TSATF is virtuosic. For me, though, it's Quentin's chapter

>> No.16792969

>>16790884
I've been reading this book for awhile, I'm at Quentin's chapter right now. It's garbage, the way it's written. I've read Absalom, Absalom and it's such a well written book compared to the first 2 chapters of TSATF. The book throws some interesting stuff at you once in awhile, but it's not nearly enough to want you keep reading through all that nonsense. I'm sure it gets better at Jason's chapter but I don't know if I'll get to it.

>> No.16792989

>>16792946
>voices
ugh I will not be reading this

>> No.16792997

>>16792989
I meant voices as in styles, it's pretty common in lit crit before sjw time

>> No.16793018

>>16790884
Benjy. Finally felt represented in literature. Representation matters.

>> No.16793034
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>>16793018
Kek

>> No.16793051

A really weird old bookshop that was located in a series of trailer and shipping containers in a parking lot closed down in my town today and I copped this with a bunch of other shit FO FREE, I think this one will be first bros I am pumped.

>> No.16793073

>>16793051
Enjoy it, and know that it will all make sense in the end (or more likely on your second read). That goes to all of you anons up there as well who like Absalom (my favorite book)

>> No.16793077

>>16793073
I got Light in August too, have you read it?

>> No.16793089

>>16793077
Light in August is honestly a much better starting place than the aforementioned, at least in my opinion.

>> No.16793109

>>16793077
Yes, Light In August is also great. And if you've never read Faulkner it would probably be a good intro because it isn't nearly as "difficult" as The Sound And The Fury, As I Lay Dying, or Absalom. Can't go wrong

>> No.16793123

>>16793089
>>16793109
gonna act on this advice, thank you friends

>> No.16793142

(tried to) read this as my first faulkner book. big mistake apparently.

>> No.16793380

>>16793142
I've found that with some of his books it's very helpful to skim the wikipedia article for it to get an idea of who the characters are and whatnot beforehand. That helped me a lot with As I Lay Dying.

>> No.16793557

>>16790884
Hated it.

>> No.16793601

>>16793142
I read this first and now he’s my favorite novelist