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     Thumper Veteran Poster Username: Thumper Post Number: 855 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
Hello All, Yeah, yeah, I know how many of you feel about Faulkner. You all know I love him. I know many of you don't understand it. Sho hate it. Anyway, I am continuing my own little campaign where Faulkner is concern by having a post, somewhere, on the Internet that gives a summary of all of the books that I have read by him. It's my own personal windmill. Anyway, The Town is the second book in the Snopes trilogy that started with The Hamlet. As you may recall; The Hamlet is the story of the rise of Flem Snopes, and how he ended up taking over the hamlet of Frenchman's Bend, Mississippi by importing his low rent trifling family of ne'er-do-well, The Snopes. In The Town, Flem Snopes, along with his wife Eula Varner and her daughter Linda, has moved to Jefferson, Miss. to continue Flem's quest for power and respectability, two things that are foreign to the Snopes family as a whole. You may recall that Flem married Eula Varner when Eula got pregnant by a man named McCarron and then he ran off. Flem married Eula for a price. After conquering Frenchman's Bend (the hamlet the title is referring to), he is all set to take over the town (another title reference) of Jefferson. Faulkner goes into a series of episodes which are funny and tragic. Eula soon begins to have an adulterous affair with the bachelor mayor of Jefferson, Manfred de Spain. The affair continues until Flem has figured out how to get his revenge. There are also stories of his Snopes relatives which are hilarious. The novel ends with Flem's wildest dreams coming true, due to a suicide, morality, and expert conniving. The novel also ends with a hilarious episode when Cynique's cousins are sent to Flem on a train and Flem ends up sending them back! Cynique's cousins can be classified as the original, uncut Bebe's Kids. They pull a knife on a grown man and cut his face up. Broke into the town's Coca Cola factory at 2 AM just to drink the Cokes and the Coke syrup. Tied one of their relative to a stake, surrounded it with kindling and set that sucker on fire. Man, these kids were a trip! I howled with laughter at the end. I have one more book to go in the Snopes triology, The Mansion, and that will complete the Snopes tales. I have come to one conclusion...Republicans are Snopes! Sorry Cynique. I am going to try to finish up the trilogy by the end of the year. I'm definitely caught up! | ||
| Crystal Veteran Poster Username: Crystal Post Number: 506 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
First of all: ooooo Cynique is gonna get you! Second: Oh no you don't! You pulled me into a double Faulkner read last year and I ain't got time for that right now. I finally read A Mercy and I'm feeling a couple of Morrison re-reads for the near future. But those Snopes sound like a good beach read and I love a good laugh. | ||
| Thumper Veteran Poster Username: Thumper Post Number: 857 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
Hello All, Crystal: Cynique don't scare me. She knows she is suppose to claim her family at all times. Aint no shame in their game. *smile* |
