tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500794647428701667.post4980003248932049219..comments2024-03-18T16:41:34.785+00:00Comments on Vapour Trails: The ReiversSéamus Dugganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00574186409184247059noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500794647428701667.post-29034876747739492282013-12-10T15:03:30.260+00:002013-12-10T15:03:30.260+00:00Thanks Tom. I think I'm going to have to inves...Thanks Tom. I think I'm going to have to invest. I started back to front because of my reliance on finding books on Charity Shop shelves but he is proving difficult to find. I'll remain warned on A Fable and also try to dig up a short story collection. I actually think I did read a couple of short stories when younger..<br />I enjoyed this one, though it is not typical, I guess. Séamus Dugganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00574186409184247059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500794647428701667.post-81301131628101776502013-12-10T14:52:31.139+00:002013-12-10T14:52:31.139+00:00You started at that end! Don't just keep work...You started at <i>that</i> end! Don't just keep working backwards, whatever you do. <i>A Fable</i> is the worst book ever written by a great writer.<br /><br />I put <i>As I Lay Dying</i> at the top - a great masterpiece - but the entire run from <i>The Sound and the Fury</i> in 1929 through <i>Go Down, Moses</i> in 1942 is astounding. The greatest concentrated creative burst in American literature. The short fiction should definitely be included in that run.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500794647428701667.post-38117148840460357132013-12-10T12:39:06.456+00:002013-12-10T12:39:06.456+00:00Thanks for the recommendations Trevor. I plan on r...Thanks for the recommendations Trevor. I plan on reading at least one more Faulkner next year.Séamus Dugganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00574186409184247059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500794647428701667.post-32094552110091483182013-12-10T10:43:58.037+00:002013-12-10T10:43:58.037+00:00The Southern patois of 'As I Lay Dying' ca...The Southern patois of 'As I Lay Dying' can be a Joyce like impediment... worth working at; I think that you'll like the dark humour of it.<br />If you like dysfunctional families and want to fuck up your nostalgic regard for the Waltons once and for all you might go for the bleeding obvious: <br />'The Sound and the Fury'. <br />T'aint easy and t'aint fun but it is moving and... real.<br />"The grave hopeless sound of all voiceless misery under the sun."<br />If you can get to chapter 3 it's a relative (!) breeze.Hissyfithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06865300919319235353noreply@blogger.com