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... The Hamlet, Sartoris or Intruder in the Dust, you will be much better prepared to plunge into Absalom, Absalom! or The Sound and the Fury.
... ta
Kazuo Ishiguro - after Never Let Me Go
Jasper Fforde - after The Eyre Affair
William Faulkner - after The Sound and the Fury
Graham Greene - after The Quiet American
Evelyn Waugh - after A Handful of Dust
Iris Murdoch - after A Fairly Honorable Defeat
... I liked The Sound and the Fury too but only after listening to it as an audiobook and also reading every sparknotes, monarch notes, review, plot summary, etc. that I could get my hands on. I know it doesn't sound like too much fun. ... the appropriate spot for this comment, but I did want to point out that there are actually people out there who really like The Sound and the Fury. Maybe it's just me, but I don't think anyone really likes The Sound and the Fury. I've yet to meet someone who truly enjoyed it...I feel like it's one of those books you know you're supposed to appreciate and admire, but it's virtually impossible.
>353 Jamesapt, I completely agree. I forced my way to the very end of The Sound and the Fury thinking there must be some turning point in the book that would make me see the genius of the story. Nope. Hated it all the way through. I had planned to read As I Lay Dying when I finished The Soun ... I read The Sound and the Fury By William Faulkner. It seems to be on every top one hundred list I have ever seen but I hated it. Why this is considered and American classic I will never know. It is not The Sound and the Fury...........I don't count guesses as questions
1) Twentieth century author? Yes
2) Male author? Yes
3) In my LT library? Yes
4) Fiction? Yes
5) American author? Yes
6) Female protagonist? No
7) Written post-1950 No
8) YA/Children's book No
9) Boxall 1001 ... Guessing: The sound and the fury? The Sound and the Fury is rough. I respect it, but I'm not sure it's worth it, necessarily. As I Lay Dying is rough, but less so, and definitely worth the trouble, especially for fantastic fiction readers. Great, morbid, atmospheric book.
Gene Wolfe takes a lot from Faulkner. ... really. His characters are memorable, and I'm a big fan of the stream-of-consciousness in the Benjy and Quentin sections in The Sound and the Fury.
I'm also a big Forster fan - I think Howard's End is my favorite of his works. I have it on my shelf. Made it about 40 pages into THE SOUND AND THE FURY and tossed it to the floor in a fit of disgust. I won't give up on Faulkner but his style, that Southern floridness, really wears on a minimalist like me... ... be a big reader. Yet at this point I haven't read any of the Faulkner I've picked up, but she's read As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury and Light in August. Thanks Oprah! ... for example, has some really memorable passages in it, and the first section of More Than Human is a terrific riff on The Sound and the Fury as far as I'm concerned. I personally regard it as a more convincing representation of the inner dialogue of a mentally handicapped man than in the Fa ... 54. Yeats is Dead! by Roddy Doyle et al.
Rating 4/5
55. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Rating 3/5 I started The Sound and the Fury yesterday. ... trend - I like really long sentences, apparently) and second the advice further upthread to start with the Snopes trilogy. The Sound and the Fury is one of my favorite books ever, and is so worth it. I found it a lot easier to read parts 3 & 4, get an idea of who the characters are and whatnot, ... Some books must be read at least twice, Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury is like that. You don't find out important information until much later in the book than when it would have been useful to know, especially regarding the sections on Luster. You read it once, yeah you can say, "I read ... ... that I could read some other book, while at the same time I was still reading Anna Karenina, or Suttree, or The Sound and the Fury? I couldn't do it and don't want to try. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. It was the first book I ever studied in depth, and it's still on my top 5 books ever list. I had a really hard time understanding it initially, but once I did I loved it. The Benjy and Quentin sections are brilliant. For Faulkner, I actually found this one to be pretty straightforward. In contrast, The Sound and the Fury jumps around like, like... oh I dunno, like a cricket on crack caught on a frying pan. As with most Faulkner, I listen to audio versions and "cheat" by refering to Sparknotes or some ... Man in Black/Man in White
The Nun's Story/Requiem for a Nun
The Sound and the Fury/A Quiet Strength
The Innocent Man/Proven Guilty
A Woman of Substance/The Invisible Man
36) The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner--The first Faulkner I've ever read. I must admit that I stalled a bit in the middle of Quentin's narrative, but everything before and after that read like a dream. The writing was amazing. I feel like I need to read this again to put the first ... ... is an acquired taste, and its best to begin with smaller doses and work up to his masterpieces. I clearly wasn't ready for The Sound and the Fury when I read it several years ago.
I discovered an interesting group called "Deep South" with much the same suggestions about taking baby steps ... ... an encyclopedia written with the intent to bore.
Other honorable mentions to the Hate List:
House of Sand and Fog
The Sound and the Fury I think Absolam, Absalom! is his best book, although my personal favorite is The Sound and the Fury. Some people would suggest sticking with his short fiction, if you want something less circuitous. I had trouble with As I Lay Dying, as I find this sort of thing less funny than intended. So ... ... definitely still open to reading Faulkner. I liked As I Lay Dying, but got bogged down with the circuitous writing in The Sound and the Fury. I did write in my journal that one critic stated that reading Faulkner is the difference between literature and fiction. I'm thinking of reading L ... I have Sound and Fury on my "read" list, how about The Cider House Rules? Studied it, it seems like a century ago. A great book. The Sound and the Fury, anyone? ... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
14,000 Things to Be Happy About by Barbara Ann Kipfer
I'm Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Great list so far, Whicker. You've read two of my all-time favorite books in the past couple months - Lolita and The Sound and the Fury. I know you said the subject matter was a bit much, but you should really at some point re-read Lolita. It's amazing how many hints Nabokov scatters through ... 18. The Sound and the Fury- William Faulkner. I love the challenge of a Faulkner novel, and the fact that I had not read his most heralded novel was a situation I needed to remedy. The first half of this novel was very difficult, but I was patient and read study notes on each chapter at it's ... Indeed #2, I thought there would be no lack of critique to my question. I have purchased The Sound and the Fury. I look forward to reading it. Thanks for the replies. Keep them coming if they will! ... McCarthy without hearing about the comparison and what snippets i've read are pretty Faulkner-esque...) i can say that The Sound and the Fury is one of the absolute best books ever written, and regardless of anything else you should probably read it anyway...that's my opinion anyway... ... violence in his novel disturbs me like nothing else can.
I am not sure I am a seasoned opinion, though. Hope you like The Sound and the Fury, be prepared to be confused, patient, and plan to re-read the first two sections -- I think it is worht it in the end - but I wasn't sure while I was ... Lord Jim
Einstein:His Life and Universe
The Sound and the Fury
A Land So Strange
Palaeoepidemiology:The Measure of Disease in the Human Past #31 The Sound and the Fury was my favorite book for a long time. I read it in high school (a year-long group project involving lots of reading literary criticism, culminating in teaching the book to the class) and the first half is definitely not easy. My teacher actually suggested that we read ... ... alive, or dead that writes as beautifully as he? I have heard comparisons to William Faulkner, and I just ordered The Sound and the Fury. However, I would like more seasoned opinions. Thanks in advance. Just finished The Sound and the Fury. The first third or half even of the book was challenging to say the least. However I read spark notes on each of the four chapters after they were finished, and that helped me to digest what I had just read. While frustrating early on, I found myself very ... I am so glad to hear that I am not the only one who gave up on The Sound and the Fury. I have tried twice to read it, but I don't actually like torturing myself. I confess/admit I read The Sound and the Fury for the fun of it, and I referred to study guides (Cliff and/or Sparknotes). They helped me with the sequence of the various narrators. I can't imagine just diving in and not knowing that all the characters' narrations are all blended together. laytonwoman, I had a really cool English teacher who had no trouble pointing out the humor in The Sound and the Fury even to the extent that my friends and I ran with it in typical teenage boy fashion and took it a bit too far. The main thing I remember is that "Did you ever have a sister?" ... ... put this out on LT in a couple other places) that the approach taken by educators to his work is all wrong. They throw The Sound and the Fury at high school freshmen and expect them to see the genius in it. In order to appreciate him (even love him, as I do) it's best to start with some ... I can understand your difficulties with The Sound and the Fury as it is my least favourite of Faulkner's "masterpieces." I agree the opening narrator, Benjy, is positively painful to read. Quentin, the second narrator in the novel, is by far the best and the only thing that redeems the book for ... I was unable to get far in The Sound and the Fury either. I just didn't have the patience for the stream-of-consciousness narration of the mentally retarded character. I have read and enjoyed As I Lay Dying and Light in August, but they are heavy if not depressing.
If you do want to give ... ... (that classy little animated series on tv...)
I couldn't remember if the last episode referenced The Grapes of Wrath or The Sound and the Fury...
then miracle fruit -- because I couldn't remember if those little yummy things were called miracle berries or magic berries.
39 - I *love* ... Thanks!
I am reading The Sound and the Fury, Imagine Me and You- my ER book, The March, Dodo and an enchanting bedtime book Intelligent Data Analysis.
So you see a dearth of Trollope and I need to remedy that, but I have vowed to read Faulkner and I shall. I replaced The Sound and the Fury by Faulker. It was god-awful and I couldn't get more than 10 pages in. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller took its place in my Database Challenge. Yesterday, I gave up on The Sound and the Fury. I don't want to have to work that hard while reading and all it did was leave me scratching my head. I don't think I made it more than 10 pages in. ... I started reading Dubliners by Joyce assuming it was on the list, but I was wrong. Once I finish that I'm going to read The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. I've been looking forward to that for a long time now. ... I have Dubliners on my TBR list for this year, too, and maybe I'll like that one better; who knows? I've never read The Sound and the Fury, but really enjoyed Light in August when we read it in college. Maybe I should try to read some more Faulkner.
Hows about Jason Compson from The Sound and the Fury. Considered to be one of the most loathed characters in literature...so critics say and I agree! ... about writing and weight loss. Two topics of interest to me. And she wrote The Artist's Way which was pretty good.
The Sound and the Fury by Faulker - Because it's one of the more commonly recommended classics and it fulfills a few spots on my reading lists.
Devil May Cry by Kenyon ... I got William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury in the mail this afternoon, through BookMooch.
And since Mom unilaterally made an appointment for me to have my own shearing (before 10 on a Saturday morning, no less), I stopped at the yarn store on the way home and bought The Knit ... ... reading Portrait in high school and finding it pretty dull, which was a bit surprising since the previous year we had read The Sound and the Fury and I had really liked the stream-of-consciousness there. I sometimes wonder if Joyce would be worth revisiting. ... a call that I won the books I bid on yesterday at the Library sale's auction:
The book set of Faulker - Light in August, The Sound and the Fury, and As I Lay Dying - as well as a beautiful edition of Complete Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm I loved The Sound and the Fury but I cheated a bit. I recall reading some plot summaries (eg., Sparknotes and/or Monarch notes). These helped me understand the "character switches" in the dialog. These really throw off someone who is reading the beginning of the book. ... k
15. Middlemarch
16. War and Peace
17. Anna Kerenina
18. Huckleberry Finn
19. Ulysses
20. The Trial
21. The Sound and the Fury
22. Pale Fire
23. The Plague
24. The Great Gatsby
25. Things Fall Apart
... to Falkner country and Faulkner's people in a most accessible fashion. Others of his works are not as accessible, such as The Sound and the Fury, which IMHO requires reading at least twice just to understand it. ... feelings towards it...(and actually it has one of my absolute favorite endings to a book ever...)
my favorite of his The Sound and the Fury, i wouldn't necessarily recommend that to start with unless you know what you're getting into...but as soon as you've decided you can make it with Fau ... ... I did write a more comprehensive review on LT if you're interested.
I haven't read Absalom, Absalom but I did like The Sound and the Fury -- I think that novel is an acquired taste - you gotta read thru it a few times and let it stew in your brain. Books with "sound" or a sound in the title.
The Sound and the Fury Faulkner
Cry the Beloved Country Paton
Howl, and other Poems Alan Ginsberg
Bang the Drum Slowly Mark Harris
Shout: the Beatles in their Generation Philip Norman
The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crow ... ... Kundera}}
The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
One-Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Bliss!!! ... not looking necessarily for his greatest work, so much as one that may help me ease in to his style. Previously I started The Sound and the Fury and gave up (that was several years ago) and I have read his great short story 'The Barn Burner'.
So that you don't have to go through my library, ... 13. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner (Finished Feb 20) 336 pgs
14. The Hours - Michael Cunningham (Finished Feb 25) 236 pgs 30. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Read this one for school. My tip: if you ever decide to read it, get an edition that includes Faulkner's appendix and read that first; it's basically an obituary of the Compson family, and it includes a lot of information that's harder to get ... ... see what I'm saying. I hate to clog this thread up with this, but I'm frustrated by it. If you have a minute, look at The Sound and the Fury on Amazon. Then look at the "Better together" or "Customers Who Bought This..." suggestions. Try searching inside any of those suggestions that ... I had that problem in college when I forgot to read an assigned portion of Faulkner's Sound and the Fury. We got graded on class participation so I think I made some comment about how Faulkner was really good about writing the characters so uniquely and that each one really had their own voice. ... Sound and the Fury by Faulkner for school (good, but slow going!); The Reluctant Tuscan by Phil Doran for fun. Very little time to read, so I'm guessing there'll be nothing new for next week! ... thinks as highly of Dubliners as I do. It is truly in a class by itself.
I recenlty finished William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. Although I think I could read it 100 times and still be baffled by parts of Quentin's section, I now find that Benjy's section is a breeze since I'm ... ... fog lifted for me.
Since I'm knee deep in Faulkner at the moment, I think I'll go chest high and do another reread of The Sound and the Fury. 9.) The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner ****
As predicted by me mum, it does get better every time. Though I have to say, I have a hard time getting through Jason's section because I spend the all of it badly wanting to smack him. A testament to Faulkner's skill, I suppose. ... to the list.
That is a great review of Absalom, Absalom!, laytonwoman3rd - I actually wasn't sure, between that and The Sound and the Fury, which to get last time I bought Faulkner. I struggled quite a bit getting into The Sound and the Fury, but in the end it wound up as one of my ... uixote
2. The Reivers
3. Satanic Verses
4. The Temptation of Saint Anthony
5. As I Lay Dying
6. The Sound and the Fury
7. Anna Karenina
8. War and Peace
Books from my brother
1. Principles of Psychology
2. Society Against the State
3. Untimely Meditati ... ... just to figure out the basic story. Too many other great things to read!
That said, I will eventually try him again with The Sound and the Fury, probably peeking at the SparkNotes site every so often to make sure I'm "getting it."
suzanney, I'm afraid I can't agree with you about either As I Lay Dying or The Sound and the Fury, having read both several times in the last 40 years, so that they're now like a pair of old friends. But Joe Meno's The Boy Detective Fails made my clunker list in 2006 and I still harbor an ... ... e
Rabbit, Run- John Updike
Cannery Row- John Steinbeck
All Quiet On the Western Front- Erich Maria Remarque
The Sound and the Fury- William Faulkner
The Invisible Man- H.G. Wells
Pretty excited about most of these, and if you'll excuse me, it's pretty clear that I have ... Well at a holiday street fair last night, I went into a nice little used bookstore and picked up:
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner for $4
the first edition hardcover of Acts of Worship by Yukio Mishima for $9
and The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats in hardcover for $8
... ... oved
Herzog
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
and Charlotte's Web
in my TBR pile are the following:
Catch 22
The Sound and the Fury
The Awakening
A Prayer for Owen Meany
and Rebecca
not currently reading from this list. Interesting note - Oprah Winfrey chose As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury and Light In August for her 2005 Summer of Faulkner reading selections. ... literature - Portuguese literature Les Misérables
PR—English literature Northanger Abbey
PS—American literature The Sound and the Fury
PT—German literature - Dutch literature - Flemish literature since 1830 - Scandinavian literature - Old Norse literature: Old Icelandic and Old Nor ... I got The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner today for a quarter. I held back from getting any more, but may still wind up going back. LOL ... and rational; one might make a clear outline as to how the story was put together. However, in a literary work, such as The Sound and the Fury, such an outline would be difficult, if not impossible, to create and would not be beneficial at any rate. The action is organically constructed and ... Adding my drops to the bucket:
The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner
Slaughterhouse Five by Vonnegut
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell by Susanna Clarke
The Harry Potter books Rowling ... by Katherine Paterson - Quote from The Old Testament
As A Man Thinketh by James Allen - Quote from Proverbs
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner - Quote from Shakespeare's MacBeth
All That Glitters by V.C. Andrews - Quote from Shakespeare's Merchant Of Venice
... ... Nabokov's Russian origins) be one of the Great American Novels like Kerouac's On the Road or Faulkner's Sound and the Fury. Thomas Harris's Silence of the Lambs is an inventive but poorly written thriller (actually, the film is much better than the book). Harris has ... The Sound and the Fury -- I was both frustrated by yet in awe of the artistry -- still not sure whether I love it or hate it -- but it haunts me.
Oh, but I just loved A Fine Balance -- Devastating! ... Night, 100 Years of Solitude, East of Eden, The Good Earth and who could forget the Summer of Faulkner collection. The Sound and the Fury is a very dense and depressing book to get through, especially since a quarter of it is narrated by a character who is mentally challenged. While ... I am reading The French Lieutenant's Woman and loving it so far. I also recently finished The Sound and the Fury which I struggled with and wasn't sure I liked -- but since finishing I find it haunting me.
#243 -- that is a good question? We may need to start a new thread not only to answer ... ... our Discontent by John Steinbeck
Perchance to Dream by Robert B. Parker
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner I finished The Sound and the Fury -- it is hard to say I enjoyed it, but it does seem to be staying with me in a haunting fashion. Then I finished M is for Malice from Sue Grafton. . A good fast mindless thriller while waiting for -- yes -- you guessed it -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow ... ... Unvanquished very much. If you haven't read much Faulkner, you might want to try another of his works and come back to The Sound and the Fury. I'm no expert, but I'm passing on advice my son received from a literature teacher. I'm sure there are others out there who can be of more help.
... ... enough I have Oprah's 'summer of Faulkner' collection)
I enjoyed As I lay Dying. But I am struggling through The Sound and the Fury. I have found the first two sections bordering on incomprehenible. I have had to look at online 'Spark notes' to figure out what is going on. I ... ... it. I can see why he´s considered great, just not my cup of tea I guess. What about Absalom, Absalom!? I think I´ll try The Sound and the Fury after I´ve completed The Catcher in the Rye.
Next books I´ll read:
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Hamlet - Shakespeare
... ... between Bret Easton Ellis and William Faulkner . But if you're up for another Faulkner, I would recommend The Sound and the Fury, definitely a classic of US literature. It's possible, though, that you'll never like Faulkner, and that's OK -- we can't all like every author, ... I decided to read The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner as it is fairly short and would hopefully finish around the time the 7th Harry Potter arrives. Little did I know the novel appears (at least thru the first 50 pgs or so) to be incomprehensible. I will soldier on as I rarely give up on a ... Well, it may come as a surprise that my first Faulkner was The Sound and the Fury, and I was instantly in love! After I had read them all, I decided that Absalom, Absalom! was the overall best, but my personal favorite book for several decades, until I read Beloved, was The Sound and the Fury ... ... and professors of English do Faulkner a disservice by introducing students to him through his so-called "masterpieces"--The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, absalom! and As I Lay Dying. Those works are structurally daunting, and plunging into them cold is like trying to appreciate Bach's Gol ... ... sometime this summer, and promises to bring the larger and heavier volumes. As I recall, I purchased (another) copy of The Sound and the Fury (bringing my total to 8, I think); Until I Find You by John Irving; The Source of Light by Reynolds Price; Things Fall Apart by Chinu ... the ways of desire by joel marks (ed.)
the sound and the fury by william faulkner
brave new world by aldous huxley
witchcraft, sorcery, and superstition by jules michelet
laughter in the dark by vladimir nabokov Please, please, please don't ever make me read The Sound and the Fury ever again. I believe at last count it was assigned to me for classes in High School and College 4 times and it was painful and horribly tedious each and every time. I think these are my top three . . . others will take more time to think about.
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Wild Boys by William S. Burroughs
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
... today.
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
Audiobook - The Sound and the Fury by William Faulker ... of the Artist As a Young Man by James Joyce
4. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
5. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
6. The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner
7. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
8. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
9. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
10. Under ... ... that. He's 10 years old and some of the books in his "lexile range" include Jane Eyre, To Kill a Mockingbird and The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner! Yet some of the Narnia Chronicles are supposedly "too difficult" for him. That seems a little crazy to me.
Use AR to test ... We could generalize this to titles taken from others' works. I'll start off with William Faulkner's The Sound and t |
