A review by ebonymae123
The Wild Palms by William Faulkner
3.0
“Love and suffering are the same thing and that the value of love is the sum of what you have to pay for it and anytime you get it cheap you have cheated yourself.”
“If memory exists outside of the flesh it won’t be memory because i won’t know what it remembers so when she became not then half of memory became not and if became not then all of remembering will cease to be. -Yes, he thought, between grief and nothing i will take grief.”
The old man ⭐️
What really ruined the this was the old man story - personally that wasn’t as good as the wild palms story which i completely adored. This was a particularly slow book with zero plot ( which wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. ) The ending of the old man story in particular: it was just boring?? I hate to criticise this but on the blurb it states that he falls in love with the woman. They hardly interacted properly and he never even thought about such feelings towards her. I could not for the life of me understand what was going on, one second he was in prison, the next somewhere new. I couldn’t get into this story.
wild palm ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Oh but charlotte and Harry
“If memory exists outside of the flesh it won’t be memory because i won’t know what it remembers so when she became not then half of memory became not and if became not then all of remembering will cease to be. -Yes, he thought, between grief and nothing i will take grief.”
The old man ⭐️
What really ruined the this was the old man story - personally that wasn’t as good as the wild palms story which i completely adored. This was a particularly slow book with zero plot ( which wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. ) The ending of the old man story in particular: it was just boring?? I hate to criticise this but on the blurb it states that he falls in love with the woman. They hardly interacted properly and he never even thought about such feelings towards her. I could not for the life of me understand what was going on, one second he was in prison, the next somewhere new. I couldn’t get into this story.
wild palm ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Oh but charlotte and Harry