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Probably my favorite Faulkner book. yay! I recommended it to Dr. Retzlaff (retzie) once and I hope she read it.

Slogging through this classic with Lauren. Enjoying it a lot, actually. The structure is the most interesting part to me: the narrator spends the bulk of each chapter giving an encyclopedic description of some piece of whaling minutiae, and then in the last two paragraphs you discover that he's just been setting you up for this perfect and grandiose extended metaphor.

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This book was the first one I read in High School where I first came to understand what was really meant by "a Classic." Once I read this, I fully came to understand that those reading assignments we were always given didn't have to feel like homework. Of course, I couldn't put the book down and ended up finishing it well before I was supposed to, so it made class discussions more difficult as I knew what everything was leading up to.

See, this is why GoodReads is such a good idea. I can look under "Book Recs", and discover that both To Kill a Mockinbird and Hamlet are good books that my friends like. I would never have heard of these books if it weren't for this site - thank you, GoodReads! Seriously though, this is the book that made me decide I didn't want to be a comic-book artist, but go to college and major in English.