Just to inform everyone, the book was "The Red Pony." And if anyone hated The Portrait of Dorian Grey, they should die all the deaths he ought to have. And As I Lay dying was beautifully written and did have plot, to argue a story that works in a semi-linear fashion with a central purpose of burying someone has no plot is to be retarded. You just didn't like that you weren't good enough to glean the genius off of the fact that everyone had their own stake in the trip.
CajunExplosion
10:46:40 PM
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I challenge you to come up with a theme from As I Lay Dying. It doesn't exist. Faulkner was a stupid drunk who wouldn't know a good story if Hemingway came along and beat him over the head with it. (aka, I'm pissed off that we're spending so much time on AILD and none on The Old Man and the Sea)
when we had to read Red Pony in 7th grade we all called it "The Dead Pony" because of the apparent irony of the title character dying so quickly.
ugh, I really didn't like the red pony.
But As I Lay Dying, I realize it was weird and not really the easiest read, but it's really interesting. I love pretty much all stream of conciousness books I've read.
Which include As I Lay Dying, The Stranger, and all of those Palahniuk books (fight club, lullaby, survivor, choke, diary, invisible monsters, haunted).
Mm, stienbeck is God after you get into it.
The metaphor with color in Red Pony = divine.
There are better things he's written for sure, but I have no problem with Pony. Or the pearl, for that matter.
I think the reason none of us liked The Red Pony was because we were in seventh grade and really not capable of understanding Steinbeck. I think if we were to read it now, we might still not like it (old habits die hard) but it would be easier.
He wrote that book while his mother was dying.
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