Well, I did finally finish Faulkner's The Bear last night. I could follow the first third of the book but was then done in by the run on sentences with no periods and no commas. I have the idea his writing is considered exceptional and his books classics. However I find this kind of writing arrogant and unnecessarly dense. I don't think I'm stupid...I even took a whole Faulkner class in graduate school hoping to learn how to read him, but that did not help! I do think The Bear's themes of disappearing wilderness and the impossibility of humans "owning" land are still relevant, and for that reason it does fit as one of the fifty books for our times.

Now, on to Kim and Lee Child's Gone Tomorrow
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