/lit/ - Literature

>>1130305

Not even wrong. Sorry.

>>998227

>My face when people think Fear And loathing is pro-drugs.

>(and it was fucking good)

>>794554
Agreed, about the father part.

>>787720

Who let you out of /b/?
Get the fuck back in there.

>>559363

>referencing The Will to Power

I prefer to call this book "As I Lay Dying...of Boredom, Reading This Book". That's what it is: boring.

The plot, such as it is, is simple. There's a family that lives in the Deep South of Mississippi or somewhere like that in a ridiculously-hard-to-pronounce county. The mother dies, and the family decides to take the body to a far-off city, where she has requested to be buried. So the book is basically them trying to get the mother's body to this cemetery in Jefferson, an interminable journey filled with approximately 20 different yet identical-souding narrators who are not interesting in any way whatsoever. Actually, there is ONE narrator you can identify without needing the chapter titles, and that is Cora, the Christian lady. She's easy to tell from the others because she mentions God once every two sentences.

This book is probably the worst book I have ever read, and I have read MANY books. I just could not care about these people, because they all sounded alike and did ridiculous things, such as:

- calling their mother a fish
- talking in short, simple sentences with basic words, then suddenly launching into poetic and polysyllabic rapture upon seeing the sunset
- setting their son's broken leg with CEMENT (I kid you not)
- NARRATING FROM THE GRAVE (I'm looking at YOU, Addie Bundren)

This book is the reason I refuse to read anything by William Faulkner. Perhaps his other work is better. I don't know and I don't care to find out.

>everyone sounds alike
>implying that Darl and Dewey Dell narrate exactly the same