Looks like the Sound and the Fury has a solid lead.....
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Looks like the Sound and the Fury has a solid lead.....
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 :)
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"
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 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.
Lack of sleep? :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Scher
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.
How didja know?? :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Jay
Enjoying As I Lay Dying even though it is still puzzling to me at times. Now I am more positive about TSATF!
One word: psychic :p
Boo back at ya :D
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.
Are Faulkner's books available online yet?
Not as far as I know, he didn't die until the sixties ('62).
Holy Crap, it sucks.
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:Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
if there's any book by Faulkner that's told from less than 25 perspectives, I'll give it a try
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! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by SleepyWitch
My 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).Quote:
if there's any book by Faulkner that's told from less than 25 perspectives, I'll give it a try