Matt B. (BuffaloSavage) reviewed on 7/25/2022 + 53 more book reviews

The conventional wisdom says that this a good introduction to Faulkner's unique style of writing. True, it's short and the black humor gets us readers over white waters in the stream of consciousness. But the multiple points of view may disconcert and disgruntle. And then there're sentences like this: But it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy court-house, and when they both build shoddy or build well, neither because it's one or tother is going to make a man feel the better nor the worse. Wait, what? There's no getting around that a reader has to read it twice through, once, then again quick. Nothing good comes easy, momma always said. Note: this is not the only masterpiece he wrote in the Thirties.

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