=> < What was the last book you read? | ~winter

Present tense, but I'm currently working through "The Sound and the Fury" and I've promised myself I'll finish it today, so this doesn't feel so much like cheating. I usually have 2-3 books on the go (a novel or two in different genres, some poetry, maybe some non-fiction.

I chose it because I found it at a local big charity book sale (literally thousands, maybe tens of thousands of books) for $1.50. I'd never read it, Faulkner's important, so I thought I'd give it a go.

I'd recommend it to others if they're into modernist literature that's "weird": there's four narrators, each with their own style, the novel jumps forward and backwards in time, etc. It's difficult to get into. I can see why it's considered by people who like unusual/hard novels to be great. But I've had trouble getting into it myself, and I'm looking forward to finishing it and moving on to something else.

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=> ~xiu wrote (thread):

Charity book sales are great. Such bargains for good causes. Are there a lot of Little Free Libraries and book swap boxes where you live?