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Summary: Southern style stream of consciousness
Review: This isn't your run-of-the-mill pot-boiler. One can't wing through Faulkner's prose; one has to immearse themselves in it with patience. But if your able to connect with his style, you'll not only be transported to a different time and place; at times you'll go inside the minds of some of the characters to feel their emotions and know their thoughts. But be warned: Readers who prefer happy endings should stay away from Faulkner. But realistically, isn't that part of the South's heritage? - tragedy.
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Summary: Light In August
Review: This was my second experience with Faulkner, I read 'The Bear' in college some 25 years ago. 'The Bear' was written when Faulkner decided that he would no longer take it easy on the reader and stopped punctuating.Reading 'Light in August' is not quite as frustrating; more like driving over a mountain, everyime you hit a straightaway you see another switchback on the horizon. The story is not complicated but the characters are and Faulkner interweaves his passionate story by taking you as far back as three generations to make the reader understand from whom some characters evolved. The best and most important character is Joe Christmas, the abused mulatto with no sense of heritage whose atrocious act is central to the goings on. The passion with which Faulkner writes was simply unmatched by his contemporaries.
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Summary: Brilliance in the Deep South.
Review: This was my second experience with Faulkner, I read 'The Bear' in college some 25 years ago. 'The Bear' was written when Faulkner decided that he would no longer take it easy on the reader and stopped punctuating. Reading 'Light in August' is not quite as frustrating; more like driving over a mountain, everyime you hit a straightaway you see another switchback on the horizon. The story is not complicated but the characters are and Faulkner interweaves his passionate story by taking you as far back as three generations to make the reader understand from whom some characters evolved. The best and most important character is Joe Christmas, the abused mulatto with no sense of heritage whose atrocious act is central to the goings on. The passion with which Faulkner writes was simply unmatched by his contemporaries.
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Summary: A Southern Mosaic
Review: Wonderfully written. But then again, saying that about a Faulkner's book is almost redundant. Amazingly entertaining, painfully alive, this portrait reads more as a puzzle. Pieces here, emotions there, everything weaving with the vibrant life in the South. Although it took time for me to construct the final picture, the wait is worthwhile. Being born in another country, this book brings to me valuable information about the history of the US. Definitely, I would recommned it.
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