As I Lay Dying Reader ✓ 288 pages Download ↠ William faulkner

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As I Lay Dying Reader ✓ 288 pages Download ↠ William faulkner ☆ ➾ [Download] ➾ As I Lay Dying By William Faulkner ➳ – Feedmarkformulate.co.uk As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury AddieAs I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie their wife and mother Narrated in turn by each of I've been working up to a William Faulkner book for years His books always appear on lists of best books of all time and books you should read before you die But when I've felt in the mood for a classic or something literary I've always passed him up for other authors even those with 1000 page monsters I think deep down I always sensed Faulkner just wasn't for meThe first problem is my lack of enthusiasm for stream of consciousness narratives If I'm being honest I rarely like it I don't mind working at a book if it's hard going but this style of narration makes it difficult for me personally to ever settle into the rhythm of the book And Faulkner takes it to a whole new level He drops us into scenes and scenarios without any explanation; I genuinely felt like Faulkner wanted to deliberately confuse his readers about characters and ideas he could have easily portrayed in a accessible way Confusion for confusion's sakeHonestly I can think of little boring than suffering through every thought feeling and instinct that passes through the human mind I have my own mind that plagues me with this randomness; I don't need to read it in someone else's perspective I want an author to organize language into a structure that is interesting compelling thought provoking and stream of consciousness for me is rarely any of those thingsBut that's just my tastes for the style Trying to take a step away from that a second and view what the novel did as a whole I can't say I enjoyed the story Nor do I tend to enjoy books with than two or three perspectives and this one had fifteen In less than three hundred pagesThe plot follows the Bundren family after the death of their matriarch Addie Fifteen perspectives tell the story of the family's journey to Jefferson where Addie is to be buried Hauling a wagon with Addie's decomposing body the Bundren family sets out on a nine day journey of freuent hunger and discomfort Faulkner includes important themes in his work such as religion poverty and identity in the Southern United States but I still feel like other authors have done this in a palatable way I would much rather read Steinbeck any dayOne reviewer said this of Faulkner's style and I couldn't agree It is easy to be confusing It is easy to write something beautiful and understandable for yourself It's hard to write universal words which we can all connect So so trueBlog | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Youtube