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Really though, when you think about it, what were his intentions? He may have written that introduction and claimed it was just for money, but..
All of his novels were for that purpose. I mean...

I'm reading it right now and I kinda like it more than As I Lay Dying, but not sure if I like it as much as The Sound and the Fury. This is my 3rd Faulkner novel, and I'm going to be reading Light in...

I remember I sorta liked part of his stuff when I read "Song of Myself", but at the same time it seemed to be very rambling. I do like his poems that were a little shorter and more focused. Which...

I'm not particularly offended, just wondering: why am I "not ready" for it?

Oh right, I just looked back at your posts and realized you're the person from the other topic I made today. Are you...

"Come back to it in a few years time and if you are still interested in reading you will laugh at that statement."

I'll come back to the other two posts later, because I can hardly hear myself...

You really do appear as if you're picking on someone or something, though. What's wrong with reading or exercising solely for enjoyment?
Reading isn't inherently intellectual, it's only made like...

Am I the only who is terribly bothered by a comment that goes a little something like this:

"I feel like I was supposed to like it, but I just can't. I feel like I'm missing out on something. The...

Great, awful, so-so?
I've been wanting to read it forever, for some reason. I have these oddly high expectations for it, so if it happens to suck, I'll be disappointed. How is it?

"My opinion is that art is everything that is well done, demands talent, skill, inspiration and the love of its creator."

How about instead art is just anything that can be thoroughly analyzed?...

I haven't read the rest of this topic, but I'd like to add one thing in general:

Anyone who is close-minded and says that literature is more artistic than anything else, or that other things such...

It's funny I'm reading The Annotated Lolita, and the annotator makes quite a few mentions of how Nabokov references Poe, such as Humbert's former lover being named Annabel, but he never does mention...

I must admit one thing, if it weren't for the fact that it's more than likely total fan service (aka probably going to be rushed and a bad idea), Midnight Sun is a cool idea. If any of you have ever...

*twitch* More abuse of exclamation, I see.. *twitch*

Yes, a hesitation you might call it, because I fail to comprehend how you actually believe a person would be jealous of someone who does not...

Er, no? I'm not jealous of an imaginary character. That's pretty ridiculous.
You, on the other hand, need to learn to stop using excessive exclamation points..

Haven't read the series and don't intend to, but this Edward Cullen worshipping bull**** among teenagers needs to be put to an end..
It appears my assumptions are correct when at least two people...

I might also ask which translation I should read, but I might as well go with Pevear&Volohonsky.. sure they're the most popular, but for a reason, I think.. I once compared Constance Garnett's and...

I always hear or see on lists that it's one of the best novels, or at the least the best Tolstoy novel.

The thing is, I happen to know the whole train incident near the end.. I don't want to...

I tried reading Kavalier & Klay, I stopped reading after the first part.. it's just really overwritten I think.

Yeah I used SparkNotes and some other things. Faulkner is my favorite author. I have to read notes with him in conjunction but I see no shame in that. Don't try to act bigger than you are, more or...

Which do you believe is the best Dostoevsky novel?

I can understand his voice perfectly more or less.. I don't think it's that he's "drunk," he's just southern. And being from the south, I hear people who talk like him a lot.

I guess it's of little consequence, but does it include the map of Yoknapathwa (I did that totally from memory, most likely misspelled) that was included in the original?

It's the very beginning paragraph.
And yeah, Chester, that does seem about right actually.. thanks. :P

Joyce? Oh jeez, I've never read any of his stuff.. seems a bit stuffy.. though I've heard the sermon on Hell in Portrait as a Young Man is good. :P

When I am less sleepy I will think of something,...

All the way from Alabama a-walking. A fur piece.

What does "a fur piece" mean? Is it actual fur? is that dialect? an expression? I'm from the south, so if it's actually something like an...