Intriguing and entertaining, but not one of my favorite of Faulkner's. Apparently he wrote this and didn't touch a word of the first draft...and it shows. Granted, his unpolished beginnings are lightyears ahead of most writers in terms of quality and craft. However, when you hold As I Lay Dying up a...
One of the top 2 novels I have ever read. So insanely amazing it's kind of hard to express. It might be the greatest American novel of the 20th century. I can think of things that might be equal, but I can't think of anything better. First of all, it's got all kind of (believable!) alternate POV...
"But I aint so sho that ere a man has the right to say what is crazy and what aint. It's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and the same astonishment. "
This family is nuts. Maybe that's why America is... as it is. My roots are so different that... I can't help but shake my head in wonderment. I found the prose less moving than the previous read.... I'm not sure why.
I have fond memories of reading The Sound and the Fury in high school, but I absolutely did not like this book. It was pompous and boring and awful and full of hillbillies and death. The worst.
As I Lay Dying is one of those titles that all readers of literary fiction get to sooner or later—for good reasons. Not only is it one of Faulkner’s most accessible titles, it is also very quickly read and less dark than some of his other work; some of the novel’s developments are, however, told wit...
A classic Southern Gothic black comedy by William Faulker. It is clever and poetic, beautifully written and very complex. I love it.I read this book for the first time in high school when we were studying the stream of consciousness style of writing. It is a style I am very comfortable with reading ...
The tragi-comedy of the Bundrens: the fictional family most likely to have definitely seen something nasty behind the woodshed. I was a little too spoiled before reading this, but that didn't really take away from the way Faulkner tells his tale.
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