Kestastrophe - I notice the foreword to ACFL is by Mary Doria Russell - Have you read her book "The Sparrow"? It's brilliant. The sequel is very good too.
Blood Meridian is amazing. It's one of the few books I would consider for best book of the 20th century.
Blood Meridian is amazing. It's one of the few books I would consider for best book of the 20th century.
this spurred me to google search and i came across this
http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html
:lol @ reader's list
Yeah I've got no quotation marks either, but it's not that big a deal.
Stop being distinguished mentally-challenged on purpose.
I've casually started this one and it is very interesting so far. I love how the religous aspect is synonymous with ignorance and the downfall of education/knowledge. Rings very true today, even though it was authored in 1959 or so.
They crossed before the sun and vanished one by one and reappeared again and they were black in the sun and they rode out of that vanished sea like burnt phantoms with the legs of the animals kicking up the spume that was not real and they were lost in the sun and lost in the lake and they shimmered and slurred together and separated again and they augmented by planes in lurid avatars and began to coalesce and there began to appear above them in the dawn-broached sky a hellish likeness of their ranks riding huge and inverted and the horses' legs incredibly elongate trampling down the high thin cirrus and the howling antiwarriors pendant from their mounts immense and chimeric and the high wild cries carrying that flat and barren pan like the cries of souls broke through some misweave in the weft of things into the world below.
a sentenceQuoteThey crossed before the sun and vanished one by one and reappeared again and they were black in the sun and they rode out of that vanished sea like burnt phantoms with the legs of the animals kicking up the spume that was not real and they were lost in the sun and lost in the lake and they shimmered and slurred together and separated again and they augmented by planes in lurid avatars and began to coalesce and there began to appear above them in the dawn-broached sky a hellish likeness of their ranks riding huge and inverted and the horses' legs incredibly elongate trampling down the high thin cirrus and the howling antiwarriors pendant from their mounts immense and chimeric and the high wild cries carrying that flat and barren pan like the cries of souls broke through some misweave in the weft of things into the world below.
a sentenceQuoteThey crossed before the sun and vanished one by one and reappeared again and they were black in the sun and they rode out of that vanished sea like burnt phantoms with the legs of the animals kicking up the spume that was not real and they were lost in the sun and lost in the lake and they shimmered and slurred together and separated again and they augmented by planes in lurid avatars and began to coalesce and there began to appear above them in the dawn-broached sky a hellish likeness of their ranks riding huge and inverted and the horses' legs incredibly elongate trampling down the high thin cirrus and the howling antiwarriors pendant from their mounts immense and chimeric and the high wild cries carrying that flat and barren pan like the cries of souls broke through some misweave in the weft of things into the world below.
DIE MONSTER YOU DON'T BELONG IN THIS WORLD
i can't endure hemmingway for this shit so someone who makes it a stylistic point rather than it being a failing of the talent of the writer...well that just won't do.
While many first-time readers report Benjy's section as being difficult to understand, these same readers often find Quentin's section to be near impossible. Not only do chronological events mesh together regularly, but often (especially at the end) Faulkner completely disregards any semblance of grammar, spelling, or punctuation, instead writing in a rambling series of words, phrases, and sentences that have no separation to indicate where one thought ends and another begins. This confusion is due to Quentin's severe depression and deteriorating state of mind.
blood meridian is easily in my top 10 non fiction books.FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
blood meridian is easily in my top 10 non fiction books.FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
:lol
oddly never had an issue with faulkner, but haven't read the sound and the fury.
FICTION VS. NONFICTION
*KILLS SELF*
I was lucky enough to have a Faulkner expert as a professor in college. :-[ We must have spent half a semester on that book alone.
how are you in college
yes. run-on is an understaement, like saramago level full paragraph sentences.:) I have to say, though, I enjoyed The Gospel According to Jesus Christ. I've tried to get into some of his other books (Siege of Lisbon or Stone Raft) but usually set them aside. No real reason.