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[Anonymous No.13907113]

just got this
i didn't get it to flex on normies by reading a difficult book, or because i found the story interesting, or because it was a classic
i just saw it mentioned somewhere and found reading something that was partially from the perspective of a nonverbal retard to be fascinating
also wanted to see if i could get through what is commonly considered one of the more difficult books to read
don't think i'll make it far desu

[Anonymous No.13907138]

>>13907113
The book as a whole is not difficult, it's just the nonlinear retard narration that most people have trouble with. It's the first section of the book, so if they bounce off that, they don't bother to go with the rest and assume the rest is equally difficult.

[Anonymous No.13907151]

>>13907138
it's no finnegan's wake, although maybe that's a normie pick for most difiicult book as well and autists here could probably suggest something more miserable to read
still will be pretty difficult because i do not read at all

[Anonymous No.13907164]

How does this compare to as I lay dying in terms of difficulty?

[Anonymous No.13907165]

>>13907113
That book is trash. I can't believe you're bragging about reading literal trash.

[Anonymous No.13907208]

>>13907151
>autists here could probably suggest something more miserable to read
I can think of a couple Frenchmen if you want to give yourself a whipping, but it'd be best to take it one thing at a time. Still, it's good to challenge yourself. I reread S&F last year and I enjoyed it a lot more than I did on the first read, so if you can't get through it but there's aspects you like, consider revisiting it in the future when you've developed more as a reader.

[Anonymous No.13907408]

>>13907151
>as well and autists here could probably suggest something more miserable to read
I tried reading Petrolio from Pier Paolo Pasolini which an anon reccomended days ago and shit that was just impossible

[Anonymous No.13907489]

>>13907165
Shut the fuck up, you fucking retard.

[Anonymous No.13907510]

>>13907164
This is much more difficult, at least the first two sections are, which is half the book. As I lay Dying was my 3rd Faulkner so I was more familar with his style by that stage and didn't have too much trouble with it. TSATF was my first Faulkner which is why I may think it's so difficult. Still, I managed to read it in a week. Yes, it's difficult but there are harder works out there (even Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! is more difficult in my opinion) so just go for it and try to not to worry too much about understanding it the first time. This book rewards rereading like no other I've found.

[Anonymous No.13907759]

>>13907489
Nope, that book is trash. Pseud-core.

[Anonymous No.13907796]

>>13907165
>>13907759
>Do something completely unprecedented in the history of the novel by interconnecting your oeuvre

I think you are a dolt, because Faulkner is easily the greatest American writer, if not the greatest writer of all time. As I lay Dying is the great American novel btw.

[Anonymous No.13907835]

>>13907796
>>Do something completely unprecedented in the history of the novel by interconnecting your oeuvre
Who cares? The Hunger Games, Harry Potter, and Twilight all are connected oeuvre too. Shut up, Faulker is trash. You're a retard and your taste is shit.

[Anonymous No.13907844]

>>13907138
I found the second chapter more difficult then the first desu

[Anonymous No.13907849]

>>13907113
It gets much easier by the third chapter, which is basically a day in the life of a /pol/ack

[Anonymous No.13907868]

>>13907113
I'm about halfway through this book now. It starts off incomprehensible but as you continue, the pieces start to fall into place little by little. It's not the easiest Faulkner but it's not the hardest either like >>13907510 said

[Anonymous No.13907872]

>>13907113
It’s not very long. I read it recently. I admit I didn’t get everything, but I just decided to accept that fact and track as best I could. The next rereading will be much easier, as it was when I read Portrait and many other moderately hard lit.

One tough thing is in the first section with the mentally retarded narrator he will often think of an old memory but he doesn’t seem to perceive it as a memory, so it’s hard to figure out what is a memory and what is the present. Also there are two Quentin’s so make sure you have that nailed down when you come across it.

[Anonymous No.13907881]

>>13907796
Not actually unprecedented, Balzac did it too, but it is the first of this type in American literature to my knowledge.

[Anonymous No.13908377]

>>13907113
Each section is easier to read. Faulkner frontloaded the difficult stream of consciousness as a pleb filter. That and by the time you get the Part 3 you'll get clear incontrovertible proof of how wholly fucked the Compsons are in case you missed it in the first parts.