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Originally Posted by pigglet
Sound and the Fury - three times to get past fifty pages. after that i read it and thoroughly enjoyed it...."and they were hitting, and benji watched them hitting, and they were hitting the hitting and benji was crying and they were hitting..."
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Gah, the lack of a tangible timeline made me cry. It was bad enough to suddenly change in the middle of a paragraph, but there was some point where the benjy narrative changed time periods every few words. Faulkner can shove his timeless classic.
If I've chosen to read a book, I can usually finish it. There have been very few times when i've voluntarily picked up a book that I couldn't finish. Maybe I have a good eye. Assigned reading, however, ranges from Catcher in the Rye (fabulous) to Kerouac and Hawthorne (get to the freakin' point already) to Sound and the Fury (WTF) to Shakespeare (not bad once you adjust to the language).