![]() There are fifteen point-of-view characters-FIFTEEN! Who does that? And most importantly, why? And oh, the best chapter in the whole book? I can recite it from memory: ![]() But the narrative of As I Lay Dying was almost incoherent to my teenaged brain. I sort of assumed that was the whole reason books existed. I was used to reading books that told stories. And so, I checked William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying out of the library, and my world changed. But when a friend of mine started talking about a literary book he was reading that blew his mind and was NOT for school, I got more than a little curious. I did enjoy some of the classics I read at school, and I have fond memories of tackling Dickens as a freshman, along with the entire Bible (Catholic school, whaddyagonnado?). ![]() I was your average high school nerd, more interested in D&D than books, though I read a fair amount of fantasy and horror and the like. How I lost my Literary Virginity By Dan Fitzgerald ![]()
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