/lit/ - Literature

>>7969583
The only truly major Faulkner work I haven't read yet is Light in August, because I've still to find a copy. I prefer Absalom, Absalom most, followed by The Sound and the Fury and then The Unvanquished. I didn't really like As I Lay Dying all that much. I think The Wild Palms was even better than it. I loved The Town and The Mansion, as it put more focus on Gavin Stevens and actually developed the story more than the fragmented Hamlet, although Spotted Horses was an OK vignette.

Again, Pylon, Mosquitoes, and Fable are shit-tier Faulkner. Fable was probably the worst of the lot, though.

>>7969531
Mosquitoes, Pylon, and A Fable are shit-tier Faulkner. I disagree with the Snopes trilogy, though. While Hamlet was a bit meh, I loved The Town and The Mansion.

>>7969092
I'm wont to agree.

>>7970124
It was a really good read. Even with its length, it wasn't boring to me.

>>7970097
I read it over the course of a week. I didn't think any of it was boring.

Great novel. One of the best novels when it came to painting an environment, and one of the best novels about alcoholism.

Season of Migration to the North - Tayeb Salih

>>7968852
I liked this book.

>>7954112
43

>>7939830
Made this fresh after I read Norris's Pit

'From a little after two oclock until almost sundown of the long still hot weary dead September afternoon they sat in what Miss Coldfield still called the office because her father had called it that—a dim hot airless room with the blinds all closed and fastened for forty-three summers because when she was a girl someone had believed that light and moving air carried heat and the dark was always cooler, and which (as the sun shone fuller and fuller on that side of the house) became latticed with yellow slashes full of dust motes which Quentin thought of as being flecks of the dead old dried paint itself blown inward from the scaling blinds as wind might have blown them.'

1. Jose Rizal
2. Nick Joaquin
...

>>7959172
Yes, this. I hated the characters.

Ivan Goncharov
Andrei Bely
Ivan Bunin
Isaac Babel
M. Saltykov-Shchedrin
Nikolai Leskov
Sigismund Krzhizhanovsky
Vladimir Nabokov
Ilf and Petrov

I read until late-era Joyce but I'd argue Andrei Bely is more of Tier 4 with William Faulkner. It's not as if Benjy's chapter in The Sound and the Fury is easy, or Absalom, Absalom! as easy to understand.

I'm not familiar with a lot of the authors in the lower level, but I think The Beetle Leg is smack in Tier 6.

I hated it. Too much pointless emo crap, and the main characters are horrible 'human' beings.

>>7957336
I'm currently reading Frank Norris's Pit

80 pages in, it's more of a 20th century costume drama than anything right now. The lead character is conceited, but she has three men in love with her.

I learned more about fashion terms, but it's not something I'd really recommend even though it's considered an American classic.

Brilliant stuff. It's one of my favorites.

>>7953885
To me, he's a better minimalist than Hemingway. I loved Thousand Cranes, thought Snow Country was good with Beauty and Sadness and Master of Go.

Crime and Punishment
Collected Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
John Macnab
Of Mice and Men
The Old Man and the Sea
The Catcher in the Rye
Crito
Frankenstein

To be quite fair, for a science high school, my lit teacher's taste was patrician.

In this list, I've only finished: The Book of Disquiet, Thousand Cranes, Snow Country, Notes from Underground, Of Mice and Men, Jude the Obscure, One Day, Death on the Installment Plan, Oblomov, Stoner, and the Death of Ivan Ilyich.

Appointment in Samarra is, surprisingly, not here. Also Ethan Frome. I love my Kawabatas. Thousand Cranes and Stoner have got to be in my top 10. I absolutely love them.

>>7950891
I'm a fan of Faulkner but I don't suck his cock. I think you're wrong, though. Unvanquished is good. You haven't read Mosquitoes, Pylon, or Fable. Now those were horrible.

>>7951192
Too damn talky and too damn circumlocutious with little real point or depth.

>>7949185
I absolutely loved Quadraturin and 7 Stories from Granta (my copy).

Also, This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski.