tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625062975808637123.post5997874892363879700..comments2023-10-22T06:57:58.721-07:00Comments on Operation: Oxmyx: Have you read a "Southern novel"?Richhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091246964133101706noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625062975808637123.post-3302536766873333312011-04-20T17:12:30.434-07:002011-04-20T17:12:30.434-07:00I think generally to downplay Faulkner might be &q...I think generally to downplay Faulkner might be "sacriligious" only among a few, and that within the educated minority. It's not quite that education is deprived in the South, but rather that most of the world is packed to the gills with the ignorant. As a Southerner myself, and having lived elsewhere, I get that distinct impression.Richhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09091246964133101706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625062975808637123.post-66589176264804335722011-04-20T08:33:39.121-07:002011-04-20T08:33:39.121-07:00bean trees is early. i read it with a book club &a...bean trees is early. i read it with a book club & we all liked it so much we read 2 others by her. i think her later work gets preachy. faulkner is not a favorite of mine, tho that may be sacrilegious for a southerner to say.... he wrote The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, The Reivers, Intruder in the Dust & others.Divers and Sundryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01759655568104782267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625062975808637123.post-27250401796757911372011-04-19T12:53:15.338-07:002011-04-19T12:53:15.338-07:00So then is Bean Trees a later work? What's an ...So then is Bean Trees a later work? What's an example of an earlier one?<br />None of the authors you mention are especially on my radar, although I've heard of a few of them. What did Faulkner write again?Richhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09091246964133101706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625062975808637123.post-28867817373842282382011-04-15T10:11:18.072-07:002011-04-15T10:11:18.072-07:00I like Kingsolver's earlier work much better t...I like Kingsolver's earlier work much better than her later books. Have you read anything by Walker Percy, Faulkner, Carson McCullers, Eudora Welty or Flannery O'Connor?Divers and Sundryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01759655568104782267noreply@blogger.com