This book is the reason I refuse to read anything by William Faulkner. NARRATING FROM THE GRAVE (I'm looking at YOU, Addie Bundren) setting their son's broken leg with CEMENT (I kid you not) talking in short, simple sentences with basic words, then suddenly launching into poetic and polysyllabic rapture upon seeing the sunset I just could not care about these people, because they all sounded alike and did ridiculous things, such as: This book is probably the worst book I have ever read, and I have read MANY books. She's easy to tell from the others because she mentions God once every two sentences.
Actually, there is ONE narrator you can identify without needing the chapter titles, and that is Cora, the Christian lady. So the book is basically them trying to get the mother's body to this cemetery in Jefferson, an interminable journey filled with approximately 20 different yet identical-souding narrators who are not interesting in any way whatsoever. The mother dies, and the family decides to take the body to a far-off city, where she has requested to be buried. There's a family that lives in the Deep South of Mississippi or somewhere like that in a ridiculously-hard-to-pronounce county. "I prefer to call this book 'As I Lay Dying.of Boredom, Reading This Book'. Sorry I sound harsh here (I'm really a nice person), but YUK!" I had my fill in college with snobs who pretended to like this stuff.
I DON'T think it's cool and 'hip' to write in a confusing manner, and I don't try to impress others by liking ambiguity. Sorry, I don't know what he's talking about (and at the risk of sounding immodest, I am bright). "I know you're 'supposed to' love this book because it's Faulker, but I HATED IT! I know you're 'cool' and 'intelligent' if you read Faulkner, but I can't stand him. I don't plan on reading it again any time soon." "There is a chapter in this book that consists entirely of the following line: 'My mother is a fish.' I've been telling myself since high school that I need to give this one another try, but then I remember that chapter.
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