A review by poisonenvy
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

challenging dark slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Well, this was a struggle that I probably would have given up if it wasn't for book club (especially since I had to read this book at the end of a five-class semester and it was somehow more if a challenge to read this than anything I was reading in any of my classes).  

Language was difficult to parse and sort out, there are about a billion POV characters (none of whom seemed to have distinctive voices), tense was all over the place with apparently no rhyme or reason. Apparently this book was written in six weeks and then not edited at all before it was published and it shows (or maybe that's just how Faulkner writes. Who knows; this is the only book of his I've read). Overall, not a fan.