ok, so we finished early at work today, so i came home, found as i lay dying under the bed, and finished it for april book club........let me get this straight.......when they finally get to jefferson to bury the mother, the father takes the daughter's abortion money and uses it to buy false teeth so he can marry the woman who already owns a gramaphone........meanwhile the only sensible brother is sent to the insane asslyum at jackson when he tries to burn down the barn, and the brother who thinks his mother was a fish continues to believe that this is true...and the brother with the broken leg eats bananas whilst laying on his mother's coffin, and the mother's favorite jewel continues to resent his favored place........yes, this book must be a classic because it is so simple yet convoluted.....i recall when i first moved to danville there was an article in the paper about banned books, and this book was listed as a book that many libraries banned......why? because of dewy dell's abortion money used to buy pa"s false teeth? or because vardamon confused his dead mother with a dead fish? or because darl burned down the barn so his family could give up the quest and go home? the book was on the shelf at the young-rodes library when i checked...i didn't read it at the time because i was unaware of faulkner...........i was into colette at the time, and having read faulkner, still prefer colette......her sexual themes are more profound, easier to recognize, and happen in paris rather than rural mississippi.......i guess i could better handle a brother mistaking my dead mother for a fish if i was in paris.........rather than in the mud in the boondocks.......mark my words, my book club will love this book, where they disliked collete.........there is no accounting for taste.........