The Best Southern Novels of All Time

[Jdarg]

You and the unicorns, let it go. ;-)

Gladly!!!! I heard somebody we know really loves gnomes....she wants a houseful....

 

[Matt J]

Gladly!!!! I heard somebody we know really loves gnomes....she wants a houseful....

I'm working on that one. I'm assembling an army. ;-)

 

[Allifunn]

Gladly!!!! I heard somebody we know really loves gnomes....she wants a houseful....

I'm working on that one. I'm assembling an army. ;-)

Children, children :nono1::nono1:...........................................

 

[Poodleone]

I really have tried to read Faulkner but haven't been able to get past the first chapter or two of any book.

Can't believe someone called To Kill a Mockingbird "tripe"! How bizarre.

 

[Allifunn]

Prince of Tides?? Garden of Good and Evil???

 

[Lynnie]

All great reads.

I agree, run-on sentences are hard to read and when written in Southern dialect they are even more difficult to read makes you wonder how we really sound right and why people from other areas of the country thinks we might not be so bright but somehow they love our beaches and our charm or so we thinks and I've heard they love our food and cooking and such.

 

[Beachbummette]

Oh goody! I display it proudly next to my autographed copy of Light-filled, Peaceful Love Rainbows of the South, by Una Corne.

Is that FFF's book?

Confederacy of Dunces is one of my favorites too. When I move down I need to join a book club....only problem is my book bookclub would be more of a "oh yea?! Well, my book club can drink your book club under the table!" Sorta like a friend of mines ex-husband used to say "Y'all don't play bunko! Y'all play drunko!"

All great reads.

I agree, run-on sentences are hard to read and when written in Southern dialect they are even more difficult to read makes you wonder how we really sound right and why people from other areas of the country thinks we might not be so bright but somehow they love our beaches and our charm or so we thinks and I've heard they love our food and cooking and such.

Looks normal to me.

 

[Miss Kitty]

All great reads.

I agree, run-on sentences are hard to read and when written in Southern dialect they are even more difficult to read makes you wonder how we really sound right and why people from other areas of the country thinks we might not be so bright but somehow they love our beaches and our charm or so we thinks and I've heard they love our food and cooking and such.

...I have a headache.

I am stunned at how many of those novels I have not read. I didn't take the Southern writers class in college. I promise to read at least one of them, right away.

 

[Susan Horn]

I really have tried to read Faulkner but haven't been able to get past the first chapter or two of any book.

Can't believe someone called To Kill a Mockingbird "tripe"! How bizarre.

Have you tried Faulkner's The Unvanquished? That was the first Faulkner I read that made any sense at all to me, and it was thigh-sapping ilsarious in parts. I finally got what people meant by "Faulknerian humor." Once I gained access to Faulkner through that book, the other works were much more meaningful and mind-blowingly fantastic at more levels than I can yet name.

Must have been a Yankee who trashed TKAM. ;-0

 

[Minnie]

Thanks for sharing, not sure that would be my personal list but the magazine looks very interesting.