Comments on: Lit Geeks Unite http://acidqueen.projectremains.com/2008/03/25/lit-geeks-unite/ Rants about hockey (chiefly the Carolina Hurricanes) from an Adopted Southerner Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:56:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: dlee http://acidqueen.projectremains.com/2008/03/25/lit-geeks-unite/#comment-4298 dlee Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:41:57 +0000 http://acidqueen.projectremains.com/2008/03/25/lit-geeks-unite/#comment-4298 Personally, I've always found Faulkner to be unreadable. His passion for using overly descriptive sentences containing 100 or more words drives me crazy. I get distracted by the length of the sentences and end up playing a game with word count. At that point, his storytelling takes a back seat. Once, when I was in my twenties, a girl dangled sex in front of me to get me to read "As I Lay Dying". For the unbearable agony I had to endure, the sex wasn't worth it. Things like this remind me of that famous story about Kurt Vonnegut at a horse race. He masterfully wrote what would have taken Faulkner 5000 words with the simple seven word account: "The horse jumped over the fucking fence" Personally, I’ve always found Faulkner to be unreadable. His passion for using overly descriptive sentences containing 100 or more words drives me crazy. I get distracted by the length of the sentences and end up playing a game with word count. At that point, his storytelling takes a back seat.

Once, when I was in my twenties, a girl dangled sex in front of me to get me to read “As I Lay Dying”. For the unbearable agony I had to endure, the sex wasn’t worth it.

Things like this remind me of that famous story about Kurt Vonnegut at a horse race. He masterfully wrote what would have taken Faulkner 5000 words with the simple seven word account: “The horse jumped over the fucking fence”

]]> By: acidqueen http://acidqueen.projectremains.com/2008/03/25/lit-geeks-unite/#comment-4297 acidqueen Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:27:04 +0000 http://acidqueen.projectremains.com/2008/03/25/lit-geeks-unite/#comment-4297 ^ Gets it. ^ Gets it.

]]> By: janeybell http://acidqueen.projectremains.com/2008/03/25/lit-geeks-unite/#comment-4296 janeybell Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:18:29 +0000 http://acidqueen.projectremains.com/2008/03/25/lit-geeks-unite/#comment-4296 Excellent find! As often as hockey fans are referred to as idiots, this is a great rebuttal. Excellent find!

As often as hockey fans are referred to as idiots, this is a great rebuttal.

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