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Anyone that can read more than one Faulkner is deserving of several rep points, so I am encouraging everyone that reads this post to rep it, if you haven't already! "As I lay dying" was enough for me. I tried "Absalom, Absalom" on several different times, and kept getting choked on those first sentences that seemed to last for several pages! I think that man hated his readers and wrote to punish them!
I will say that this book is growing on me a bit, but it's still pretty tedious to read. The protagonist has a certain habit in his speech that drives me crazy and makes it harder to read. I guess it could make the character more believable, but I've never actually known anyone who talked that way so for me it's just distracting.
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I will say that this book is growing on me a bit, but it's still pretty tedious to read. The protagonist has a certain habit in his speech that drives me crazy and makes it harder to read. I guess it could make the character more believable, but I've never actually known anyone who talked that way so for me it's just distracting.
Are you talking about Absalom, Absalom? (I've never read ANY Faulkner, by the way.) I'm curious, though, what the weird speech pattern is. I know someone who absolutely refused to read A Prayer for Owen Meany because he YELLED ALL THE TIME.
Are you talking about Absalom, Absalom? (I've never read ANY Faulkner, by the way.) I'm curious, though, what the weird speech pattern is. I know someone who absolutely refused to read A Prayer for Owen Meany because he YELLED ALL THE TIME.
I'm not that person, but I also couldn't read that book for the same reason.
Well, it's almost embarrassing to have read so many books in so short a time. I finished Little Star last night and it most reminded me of that classic with the character Piggy in which children are on an island but I'm having a senior moment and I can't remember the title. There was also some of Stephen King's first book in it, about the girl who goes nuts at the high school prom, but I can't remember that title either.
I'm ambivalent about the book. I think I liked his other two better. He is excellent at conveying the angst of adolescence. It's psychologically scary.
So I'm back to The Lacuna, with side trips into 1001 Nights.
ETA: Lord of the Flies, as I've just been reminded ;-)
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In anticipation of reading the new Nelson DeMille, The Panther, I have started The Lion's Game. I'll be reading The Lion next. Somehow I missed these two books. I love the John Corey character.
I attract a lot of you wackadoos as friends, then.
Just kidding, of course. There are even more minor things that would make me not want to read, or continue reading, a book.
Carrie! I saw the movie when I was a kid. I didn't sleep for weeks.
I don't know how old I was when I first started reading it, but a few pages in, I was so freaked out that I couldn't continue. But then the book bothered me just being by my bed, and so I hid it under other books to get rid of the bad vibes. I actually read the whole book years later. I wouldn't read it again. Never saw the movie.
^ But speaking of movies, I saw something on TV about Tom Cruise playing Jack Reacher of the Lee Child books. HAHAHA! That will never work for anyone who has read the Lee Child books.
I don't know how old I was when I first started reading it, but a few pages in, I was so freaked out that I couldn't continue. But then the book bothered me just being by my bed, and so I hid it under other books to get rid of the bad vibes. I actually read the whole book years later. I wouldn't read it again. Never saw the movie.
I hated Stephen King books for years... I just couldn't handle the edginess his stories gave me, until we listened to an audio recording of a work by him involving a car with a trunk that things disappeared into. It had me mesmerized, and I couldn't stop listening. After that I tried reading other works, but found I didn't like those either.
I hated Stephen King books for years... I just couldn't handle the edginess his stories gave me, until we listened to an audio recording of a work by him involving a car with a trunk that things disappeared into. It had me mesmerized, and I couldn't stop listening. After that I tried reading other works, but found I didn't like those either.
What can I say -- I don't like suspense.
I like certain kinds of suspense. I think the best horrorish books are about a battle between good and evil. But for it to be more than genre fiction, good has to win and the suspense is about the choices people make and why they make them. It might be a thin kind of victory, but for me, evil can't win or be glorified in gratuitous violence.
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There was also some of Stephen King's first book in it, about the girl who goes nuts at the high school prom, but I can't remember that title either.
That will never work for anyone who has read the Lee Child books.
