Read about half of these. The Faulkner, Franklin. McCarthy, Gay and O'Connor. Except for Sound and the Fury I think Faulkner gets a bad rap as being difficult.
I'm in the Faulkner/O'Connor camp--they were writing Southern Gothic before it had to be put in quotation marks. Cormac* McCarthy seems to be trying too hard to make his writing "Gothic," I'm not sure I've read (or am interested in reading) any of the others.
/*Spellcheck kept wanting to change Cormac to Cinemax!
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I think I read the Faulkner one years ago for a lit class. I am sure I have not read the others.
Faulkner was a professor favorite in many of my classes, but I found him very hard to read and understand.
I've read three or four of these. Probably will never read the others. I'm not into dark stuff these days. I have enough of that in real life.
Other than Flannery O'Connor, these are not for me.
Jeff
Read about half of these. The Faulkner, Franklin. McCarthy, Gay and O'Connor.
Except for Sound and the Fury I think Faulkner gets a bad rap as being difficult.
I'm in the Faulkner/O'Connor camp--they were writing Southern Gothic before it had to be put in quotation marks. Cormac* McCarthy seems to be trying too hard to make his writing "Gothic," I'm not sure I've read (or am interested in reading) any of the others.
/*Spellcheck kept wanting to change Cormac to Cinemax!
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