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Search for identity. Mob thinking. Religion. Race. These are some of the themes found throughout Light in August. This book was a horror of sorts. It’s a book that I could imagine Dostoevsky writing if he were from the southern U.S. (though chapter 7 had the psychological horror of a Stephen King novel). Every character had a dark secret, thought or belief… or at least a delusional outlook on life. I didn’t know if I should like Joe Christmas or just pity him… I still don’t know. This is the sec
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"A great and accessible book from Faulkner. A rich and entertaining story. Nothing like As I Lay Dying or Sound and the Fury as far as difficult stream-of-consciousness sections."
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I never made it all the way through. Weird thing is I was actually enjoying it! But life intervened and I never made my way back to it. I vow I will finish it one day.
Faulkner's Rashomon.
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