When does this book git gud? I keep picking it up and putting

>>9326542
It is Faulkner's best work and one of the greatest works of literature from USA, and possibly the world.

>>9326549
I thought Sound and the Fury was supposed to be his masterpiece.

>>9326542
How far into it are you? I think either Darl's early description of Jewel wrangling his horse or Addie's chapter is the best part of the book.

>>9326549
nice meme

>>9326549
>Faulkner's best work
Definitely not.

>>9326637
You mean when he kicks him in the gut in the barn? Oh god that's like 5 pages in. I never got to Addie's chapter. It isn't very long it's just hard to get used to the wording and not space out.

>>9326595
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>>9326647

not an argument

>>9326542
Like page 3, I read that book in two sittings and I'm probably going to reread it soon. If you don't like the first few chapters you're not going to like any of it.

>>9326595
Absalom, Absalom! is his masterpiece, TSaTF was just his personal favorite

Did anyone else find the river scene impossible to follow/visualise?

>>9326542

“In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. I don't know what I am. I don't know if I am or not. Jewel knows he is, because he does not know that he does not know whether he is or not. He cannot empty himself for sleep because he is not what he is and he is what he is not. Beyond the unlamped wall I can hear the rain shaping the wagon that is ours, the load that is no longer theirs that felled and sawed it nor yet theirs that bought it and which is not ours either, lie on our wagon though it does, since only the wind and the rain shape it only to Jewel and me, that are not asleep. And since sleep is is-not and rain and wind are was, it is not. Yet the wagon is, because when the wagon is was, Addie Bundren will not be. And Jewel is, so Addie Bundren must be. And then I must be, or I could not empty myself for sleep in a strange room. And so if I am not emptied yet, I am is.

How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.”

I didn't know Faulkner was a meme until I read this book. As I Lay Dying is the work of a total hack...

>>9326918
lol. nobody could follow along with that scene. its brought up in every AILD thread.

>>9326927
>the internal narrative of the crazy guy sounds crazy
yeah man what a hack

>>9326928
Seriously? That makes me feel a little better. Honestly felt so useless trying to read that chapter.

>>9326927
That's some insanely good writing though, anon.

>when does it get good
Never.

I wasn't a fan of Faulker.

>>9326946
>he spouts the "it fits the character so its automatically gud" meme

why didn't you just say that you are a pseud?