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Scheherazade
02-28-2006, 11:14 PM
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In April, we will be reading a book by Faulkner who said:
I’m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can’t and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.The aim of the Book Club is to read and discuss new books together with other members.

Please try to avoid from voting for the books you have already read and/or do not intend to (re)read with us.

Thank you! :)


More information on Faulkner's works (http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/lib_novels.html)

Book Club Procedures (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?p=57103#post57103)
papayahed
03-01-2006, 10:41 AM
Which one is the shortest?
Virgil
03-01-2006, 11:54 PM
Once you get the hang of The Sound and The Fury, it reads fast. But I think As I Lay Dying is the shortest.
chmpman
03-01-2006, 11:58 PM
Well, hmmm, I have to read The Sound and The Fury for class. I wonder which I should choose... toughie.
Shea
03-03-2006, 05:05 PM
Sound and the Fury is on my list, gotta read it!
rachel
03-03-2006, 07:21 PM
bring on Sound and the Fury please, thankyou.
Virgil
03-03-2006, 08:46 PM
Yay!!............
Jay
03-03-2006, 09:05 PM
bring on Sound and the Fury please, thankyou.
Rachel, you might want to vote for it, too ;)
daddysfiddler
03-07-2006, 12:30 AM
I'm good with any Faulkner book. I have had some really weird coincidences recently about Faulkner and his stories and just the name in general, so I was getting ready to read one of his books. Not sure which one so this will be a good way to start. <><
cruciverbalist
03-07-2006, 06:13 AM
I started reading "Absalom, Absalom", but haven't had much time lately due to school-work. I hope to get back to it soon and this seems like a good opportunity for that.
I've already read "The Sound & the Fury" and liked it a lot...but it would be great to re-read and discuss that work as well.
Helen L
03-07-2006, 12:47 PM
i havent read any of his books yet so i dont mind which one i read as i dont even kno anything about his works and whsat style of writing he uses
papayahed
03-07-2006, 01:15 PM
I have a copy of Absalom! Absalom! but I just can't seem to get into it. hmmmmm... I think I'll save my vote again - I may need it.
Paula
03-07-2006, 04:57 PM
hello, I've voted for a book, I was just wondering will this post keep my voted counted, as I read the club procedure after voting? Also, when is the decided book announced? ;)
emily655321
03-07-2006, 07:44 PM
Generally on the first of the month. Welcome, Paula. :wave:

I had to read The Sound and the Fury in high school. I didn't really like it... at all. But it's the sort of book that could certainly benefit from multiple readings. I'm going to reserve my vote for the end of the month, I think.
Jay
03-09-2006, 01:26 PM
Welcome, Paula :wave:
Yes, your vote will count. :)
papayahed
03-20-2006, 11:49 AM
Looks like the Sound and the Fury has a solid lead.....
SleepyWitch
03-23-2006, 06:39 AM
I won't vote on this one.. I tried to read the sound and the fury once and it was hell... so I'm not keen on reading Faulkner
however, if another of his novels should win the poll... I'll try to read this one and join the discussion.... I'm not gonna vote though, because if i vote for another book but Sound and Fury wins anyway, I still wouldn't wanna read it...
i hope that's ok???? maybe i'll just skip this one and wait for the next author on our list :)
caspian
03-23-2006, 10:49 AM
I'll read anything but "the town". It's in the list of my "boring and unfinished" books. the only work i got interested is "Light in August"
Scheherazade
03-23-2006, 08:01 PM
So I thought I should really give Mr Faulkner a chance this time so before reading TSATF, I have decided to read As I Lay Dying again after 12 years (upon a precious friend's precious advice) but I fell asleep on the sofa today and I was only on the third page!

Doesn't bode well, me thinks!
Shea
03-23-2006, 11:32 PM
I actually went ahead and bought TSATF today. Do you guys know that Waldenbooks and Borders are doing 25% off for teachers this weekend! I was able to use my substitute teacher ID.
Jay
03-24-2006, 07:10 AM
So I thought I should really give Mr Faulkner a chance this time so before reading TSATF, I have decided to read As I Lay Dying again after 12 years (upon a precious friend's precious advice) but I fell asleep on the sofa today and I was only on the third page!

Doesn't bode well, me thinks!
Lack of sleep? :p
Azaril
03-26-2006, 12:12 AM
Absalom Absalom! is in my very list for next readings, for the sound and the fury I should find it first.

Great idea this club by the way.
Scheherazade
03-26-2006, 07:45 PM
Lack of sleep? :pHow didja know?? :p

Enjoying As I Lay Dying even though it is still puzzling to me at times. Now I am more positive about TSATF!
Jay
03-27-2006, 08:35 AM
One word: psychic :p

Boo back at ya :D
Ryduce
03-27-2006, 03:05 PM
I've been reading As I Lay Dying for the past 3 weeks,now I have to go straight into TSATF.Jeez this is gonna kill me.
Pensive
03-28-2006, 12:55 AM
Are Faulkner's books available online yet?
chmpman
03-28-2006, 02:07 AM
Not as far as I know, he didn't die until the sixties ('62).
Pensive
03-28-2006, 02:15 AM
Holy Crap, it sucks.
SleepyWitch
03-28-2006, 05:06 AM
So I thought I should really give Mr Faulkner a chance this time so before reading TSATF, I have decided to read As I Lay Dying again after 12 years (upon a precious friend's precious advice) but I fell asleep on the sofa today and I was only on the third page!

Doesn't bode well, me thinks!

i didn't know you were old enough to reread a book after 12 years :) for some reason (or rather none at all) it got stuck in my mind that you must be exactly 27 y/o no less and no more... so you must already have been reading horrible books when you were 15 :) wuuahaaa, it's just one of these stupid ideas you have about other people that have no foundation in any facts :goof:

if there's any book by Faulkner that's told from less than 25 perspectives, I'll give it a try
Scheherazade
03-28-2006, 12:53 PM
i didn't know you were old enough to reread a book after 12 years :) for some reason (or rather none at all) it got stuck in my mind that you must be exactly 27 y/o no less and no more... so you must already have been reading horrible books when you were 15 :) wuuahaaa, it's just one of these stupid ideas you have about other people that have no foundation in any facts :goof: Oh dear! I just realise that it has been 14 years actually, not 12!!! :goof: I was surely not 15 at the time... nor am I 27 now... Well, your guess is not that far off... Give or take 10 years... or 20! :D
if there's any book by Faulkner that's told from less than 25 perspectives, I'll give it a tryMy second AILD reading is proving much better than my first time. I am sure your English better mine was at the time of my first reading. It is a challenge but you might like it if you give it a try. I think all Faulkner books are similar in style (multiple narrators etc).
emily655321
03-28-2006, 09:02 PM
Okay, well, I've already started reading TSATF, so I might as well vote. I'm hearing such nice things about AILD now, that I wish we could have read that, instead (hence my vote for the runner-up), but it's definitely going on my list. It also wasn't in the used bookstore, whereas Sound & Fury was, so I guess it's just as well.

So far, the second time around is proving to be the charm for me, too. I already know the plot, and the timeline, and can just sit back and enjoy the story. Imagine! Do others think it would be useful to post a SATF timeline on its thread (assuming several lurking fans of ...Dying don't come out of the woodwork on Friday night)? It is... very, very confusing. Perhaps I should save this sort of question for April 1st?
Ryduce
03-28-2006, 09:14 PM
I heard that Absalom Absalom was Faulkner's greatest work though.I found it to be way more difficult than TSATF.Because I got through the first 2 sections of TSATF,but I didn't make it passed the third page on Absalom Absalom.
Shea
03-29-2006, 07:41 PM
I heard that Absalom Absalom was Faulkner's greatest work though.I found it to be way more difficult than TSATF.Because I got through the first 2 sections of TSATF,but I didn't make it passed the third page on Absalom Absalom.

I know we're still just voting here, but I've just gotten through the first section of TSATF, and I found Sparknotes.com to be quite helpful. I've been going back through it and highlighting what's memory and what's real time in two different colors.
Basil
03-29-2006, 08:47 PM
I've been going back through it and highlighting what's memory and what's real time in two different colors.
Shea, you might be interested to know that Faulkner wanted to use different-colored ink in the first section to show the shifts in time (as opposed to italics). He had to be persuaded by the publisher that it simply was not possible.
Shea
03-30-2006, 09:12 AM
Shea, you might be interested to know that Faulkner wanted to use different-colored ink in the first section to show the shifts in time (as opposed to italics). He had to be persuaded by the publisher that it simply was not possible.

:lol: As my mother would say, "Great minds think alike". Though I think in my case its just a wild chance. ;)