Saturday, March 28, 2015

I'm Sure You'll All Agree

10 Best Southern Gothic Books

5 comments:

Kevin R. Tipple said...

I think I read the Faulkner one years ago for a lit class. I am sure I have not read the others.

Faulkner was a professor favorite in many of my classes, but I found him very hard to read and understand.

Unknown said...

I've read three or four of these. Probably will never read the others. I'm not into dark stuff these days. I have enough of that in real life.

Jeff Meyerson said...

Other than Flannery O'Connor, these are not for me.

Jeff

Steve Oerkfitz said...

Read about half of these. The Faulkner, Franklin. McCarthy, Gay and O'Connor.
Except for Sound and the Fury I think Faulkner gets a bad rap as being difficult.

Deb said...

I'm in the Faulkner/O'Connor camp--they were writing Southern Gothic before it had to be put in quotation marks. Cormac* McCarthy seems to be trying too hard to make his writing "Gothic," I'm not sure I've read (or am interested in reading) any of the others.

/*Spellcheck kept wanting to change Cormac to Cinemax!