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02 October 2006
Sanctuary
This is the third novel I've read of William Faulkner's (after The Sound & the Fury and As I Lay Dying, all three of which were written around the same time) and this was by far the worst of the three. Faulkner abandons his risky (yet highly successful) experimental techniques and delivers a standard novel dealing about non-standard things. I'm sure that at the time this book would have risque but, while raping girls with vegtables is still shocking, it doesn't add the magnificance that infused the other two books I've read. This boils down to a rather droll story of how much misfortune can be heaped upon the main characters and serves as a parable of how evil the world has become. I would skip this one, that the author admited he wrote only for money, and read his masterpieces.