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inulro14. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
After a rocky start (the fist chapter is about a scatterbrained mother who doesn't deal well with her children which is supposed to be amusing but just makes me see red), this book about a bunch of mysteries that prove to be interconnected is practically impossible to put down.
Just don't read the snippets of reviews printed with it about how it's too literary to be a real crime novel. Bastards.
15. The Hamlet by William Faulkner
I would have finished this weeks ago were my head not full of snot.
I love Faulkner. I'm usually pretty utilitarian in my reading and don't care a great deal about style, I want content. However, I make an exception for Faulkner's use of language. I love the contrast that he writes some of the most impenetrable prose in the English language about characters that don't even have the usual peasant vocabulary of 600 words.
Parts of this book were originally published as short stories so it's quite episodic, but the story arc comes full circle in the end. It's the story of how one family moving to an area changes the whole area.
I think I really liked this even by Faulkner standards, but it's been a while since I read any of his books, so I might be wrong.
After a rocky start (the fist chapter is about a scatterbrained mother who doesn't deal well with her children which is supposed to be amusing but just makes me see red), this book about a bunch of mysteries that prove to be interconnected is practically impossible to put down.
Just don't read the snippets of reviews printed with it about how it's too literary to be a real crime novel. Bastards.
15. The Hamlet by William Faulkner
I would have finished this weeks ago were my head not full of snot.
I love Faulkner. I'm usually pretty utilitarian in my reading and don't care a great deal about style, I want content. However, I make an exception for Faulkner's use of language. I love the contrast that he writes some of the most impenetrable prose in the English language about characters that don't even have the usual peasant vocabulary of 600 words.
Parts of this book were originally published as short stories so it's quite episodic, but the story arc comes full circle in the end. It's the story of how one family moving to an area changes the whole area.
I think I really liked this even by Faulkner standards, but it's been a while since I read any of his books, so I might be wrong.
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Date: 2009-03-15 11:08 pm (UTC)