Trying to decide what the next novelist i plan to read from, I've really enjoyed Cormac McCarthy as of late especially Suttree (highly recommend, most human thing I've read) and I want to give either Faulkner or Steinbeck a try, which one should I go for and should I read something like East of Eden, Grapes of Wrath, Light in August, or sound and the fury (or absalom). Also what 20th century americana author am I missing out on?
>>25121763Yeah faulkner is dope
>>25121849dope, dope on what?
>>25121763>Faulkner or SteinbeckOne of these is a master prose stylist.The other ... isn't.
>>25121763Everything you've mentioned is good. I'm starting Sanctuary probably today after I finish Human Acts.
If you're going to check out Faulkner you have to check out his short stories, and you definitely have to read As I Lay Dying, one of his best novels and one of his shortest.
>>25121763Absolam is a sequel to Sound and Fury, and both are way harder than As I Lay Dying which is probably in-line with what you'd expect of modernist stream of consciousness stuff.Grapes of Wrath is great for the ideas in it, not the writing.
