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19582981 No.19582981 [Reply] [Original]

Did Oprah's audience actually read this? I'm reading it now and it's hard as hell.

>> No.19583004

They probably got filtered by Benjy’s section. Once you finish the novel and think on it, it all falls into place. Jason is best Compson.

>> No.19583015

>>19582981
They probably stopped reading once they got to the N word.
It’s not quite Adventures of Huckleberry Finn tier where it appears 270 times in a 350 page book but it’s probably in the high double digits for a 375 page book

>> No.19583041

>>19583004
How? Jason's section is a clash between relief at finally getting a standard, linear perspective, and disgust at that perspective belonging to a completely unlikable character.

>> No.19583048

No. Nor did they read any of the other books in her club.

>> No.19583069

>>19583004
Jason is literally loathsome. Quentin is obviously the best compson, and his section is some of the best writing ever

>> No.19583107

>>19583069
>>19583041
How can you not sympathize with Jason? His family sold their land to put Quentin in Harvard and he an heroed, wasting an opportunity Jason never got. Now Jason has to look after his nutjob mother in a dilapidated house. He works a menial wagie job and can’t get ahead because the jews rig the market. Jason is a victim of circumstance.

>> No.19583125

>>19583107
Don't forget the other main plot point, he couldn't get a slightly higher tier wagie job at the bank due to his sister being a hoe. In any case, he's a materialist and would sell Benjy for a cent if he could. His life might be bad, but he's not a good person.

>> No.19583400

>>19582981
I could buy that 70, maybe 80% of the finished reading the title.

>> No.19583411

>>19583107
all excuses to justify the entire section being him being overtly unlikable over and over again

>> No.19583452

>>19582981
post yfw Oprah was a gigachad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprah%27s_Book_Club#Oprah's_Book_Club_selections

>> No.19583463

>>19583400
>be oprah fan
>start reading the title
>recognize the allusion to shakespeare, induce the general themes and the self important tone of the book, be repulsed by the cheap poshlust in using such a line as the title, possibly identify the joyce influence
>choose to not waste your time reading the rest of the title

>> No.19583498

>>19582981
it is not actually difficult, you just need to accept not immediately understanding everything. This is fairly common outside of genre fiction, understanding comes later.

>> No.19583770

>>19582981
this book would be perfect if it weren't for quentin's section

>> No.19584386

>>19582981
If they read Toni Morrison it's not that different from some of the Techniques she employ. Middle-aged Oprah! Viewers would have lots of Practice identifying who is speaking and identifying Time Skips without written Cues from all the Tv they're watching.

>> No.19584405

>>19583411
But he's literally me...are you saying I'm unlikable anon? That's kinda mean....

>> No.19584421

>>19583004
bullshit

benjy and quentin parts are biblio, jason and the third person section a shit

>> No.19585090

In a recent Curb Your Enthusiasm episode, Cheryl and Susie are in a book club that's reading Faulkner and Larry starts making fun of them, he's shocked they're reading Faulkner. Makes sense that it was an Oprah book club book.

"I don't need a club to read a book but ok"