/lit/ - Literature

>>7986238
I absolutely loved the Snopes trilogy, although I didn't really like Hamlet all that much. The Town and The Mansion were so damn good, though. The Mansion was breath-taking to me.

Sanctuary was good, too. Not Faulkner's greatest, but good.

>>7985539
I started with Blood Meridian because a lot of critics think it's his masterpiece. I do see similarities between him and Faulkner, but my problem is the converse of yours: I've read most of his major works except Light in August (but already found a copy of it), and only just read Blood Meridian.

>>7985429
AILD to me isn't one of his great works, but it's good and may be easier than his magnum opera Absalom, Absalom! and The Sound and the Fury.

>>7985430
I think I liked the neatness of the resolution in A,A! despite its avant-garde techniques. I do understand other people's preferences for The Sound and the Fury, since I also like it very much. I think both are better than Blood Meridian, though. McCarthy is great as a verbal illustrator, and this work is overall great, it just didn't really give me the resolution and the sense that I was reading a truly great work of literature that A,A! and SATF gave me.

It's all ultimately a matter of opinion, but I think that Absalom, Absalom! is still the great American novel as compared to Blood Meridian. While Blood Meridian is a great lyrical work of philosophy and violence, I still prefer the coalescence that occurred in Absalom, Absalom! rather than the diffuse, picaresque nature of Blood Meridian.

McCarthy is perhaps the best living American author, but Blood Meridian, to me, is a shade below Absalom, Absalom! and Faulkner's masterworks. What do you guys think?

>>7980267
Wibberley's Mouse that Roared was great.

>>7979815
Since I'm on public transportation a lot of the time, I spend it on reading.

Why do you hate people who read in public? I just about read anywhere, since I have to wait for a lot of people.

Definitely Red Harvest. IIRC it was the inspiration of Yojimbo and A Fistful of Dollars.

William Faulkner remained handsome even to his old age.

>>7977208
I admire the construction of Ulysses, but Aldous Huxley's right. Finnegans Wake had it even worse.

I read it about two years ago. I liked it. :)

Have any of you guys read Dick Francis's works? I just finished one of his novels, and while his plot isn't anything new, his characters are great.

Imagine that every time the font face changes from normal to italic, it's a different memory in Benjy's past.

Eventually you could relate the stuff that occur together, like Damuddy's funeral and contrast it with the current time (Luster's taking care of Benjy). Before he was named Benjy, he was first called Maury, but was gelded later on because he wanted to befriend a little girl.

>>7971151
Southern Gothic? That's Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. Both are great writers.

>>7971199
He did it to make money, but I liked it anyway.

I read about 80 Mack Bolan novels back when I was in high school.

>>7970861
*two months

I felt the same way with The Pit. I should have finished faster, it was just boring for me.

>>7970845
When one of his courses were 10 Great Works of the 20th century, I liked his choices. It was only a three-month course, but we sped through 100YoS, The Waste Land, To the Lighthouse, The Stranger, A Farewell to Arms, The Lies that Build a Marriage, Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, Animal Farm, The Catcher in the Rye, and To Kill a Mockingbird.
Given that we only had two months to speed through the whole course, I thought they were good choices.

Great professor.

>>7968784
I have a professor who is at the vanguard of the LGBT movement here in my country, but even he understood that most female and homosexual writing paled in comparison to the canon. We did discuss Virginia Woolf, but he took time to discuss Hemingway, Faulkner, and Joyce.

He was right. Just because you're gay doesn't make you a good writer - and he won most of the literary awards in our country already, so he wasn't talking shit.

>>7970244
Haha, I laughed. Good afternoon to you.

I've only gone to /a/, /v/, and when not lucid, /r9k/. It's easily the smartest board among the boards I've visited. Great recommendations from anons, too.

>>7970275
My mind was seizing in an orgiastic throe because of its aptness. I was like FFFFFFUUUUUUUUCCCKKKKKKK and all that remained was an African-American retard in Sutpen's Hundred

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Risk - Dick Francis

I'm taking a rest from all the serious books and classics, and it's a pretty enjoyable story.

>>7970156
Not a Faulkner scholar, but it's my favorite novel of his.

EVERYTHING was perfect about that book. I couldn't read anything else for a week afterward because it was so fucking good.

>>7969655
I disagree, Faulkner had a few diamonds, but he also had rubies, amethysts, and emeralds. It's unarguable that Absalom, Absalom! and Fury are his greatest works, but Unvanquished, As I Lay Dying, Snopes trilogy, perhaps even the Reivers, his short stories are definitely gems as well.