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< What was the last book you read?
Present tense, but I'm currently working through "The Sound and the Fury" and I've promised myself I'll finish it today, so this doesn't feel so much like cheating. I usually have 2-3 books on the go (a novel or two in different genres, some poetry, maybe some non-fiction.
I chose it because I found it at a local big charity book sale (literally thousands, maybe tens of thousands of books) for $1.50. I'd never read it, Faulkner's important, so I thought I'd give it a go.
I'd recommend it to others if they're into modernist literature that's "weird": there's four narrators, each with their own style, the novel jumps forward and backwards in time, etc. It's difficult to get into. I can see why it's considered by people who like unusual/hard novels to be great. But I've had trouble getting into it myself, and I'm looking forward to finishing it and moving on to something else.
Charity book sales are great. Such bargains for good causes. Are there a lot of Little Free Libraries and book swap boxes where you live?