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Topics messages Last message 999 Challenge : Zero's 999 66 zanix , Thursday 10:26pmLe Salon du Faulkner : And you are....? 50 kidzdoc , December 2009List Five Books Parlour Game : Use five titles to tell a story 119 kelisha94 , December 2009Le Salon du Faulkner : Group read opinions HERE! 60 laytonwoman3rd , November 200950 Book Challenge : BrainFlakes for 2009, Part Deux 218 saraslibrary , September 2009Reviews reviewed : Review of Sanctuary, by William Faulkner 10 calm , September 2009List Five Books Parlour Game : The one and only 54 rolandperkins , August 200950 Book Challenge : readeron's 2008 challenge 235 readeron , August 2009Literary Snobs : June 2009 reading 155 holcombjmarie , July 2009History at 30,000 feet: The Big Picture : Books left unfinished... 137 wildbill , June 2009Club Read 2009 : Purpleelephant's 2009 Reading Log. 27 kambrogi , June 2009999 Challenge : LisaMorr's 76 LisaMorr , May 2009What Are You Reading Now? : What You Are Reading the Week of 18 April 2009 188 mta214 , April 200950 Book Challenge : BrainFlakes is back for 2009 265 BrainFlakes , April 2009999 Challenge : xicanti's 999 19 xicanti , February 2009Literary Snobs : Short Story Redux! 84 kswolff , January 2009Deep South : Newbie to Faulkner needs some advice... 43 SeanLong , January 2009Dormant: 75 Books Challenge for 2008 : The KITCHEN II - We're still here! 207 Whisper1 , January 2009Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : Zero to 150 - 2008 119 zanix , December 2008Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : Joeinma's 100 Book Challenge - 2008 96 joeinma , December 2008Dormant: 888 Challenge : Zero's 888 73 ReneeMarie , December 2008Dormant: List Five Books Parlour Game : One word says it all... 74 vonitaburke , December 2008Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of 8 November 2008? 152 heliophobe , November 2008Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? Sept 2008, part 3 233 MusicMom41 , October 2008Dormant: Hardboiled / Noir Crime Fiction : Noir? 27 yareader2 , August 2008Dormant: Deep South : Faulkner: question concerning Sanctuary and Requiem for a Nun 3 ateolf , June 2008Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : Joeinma's 2008 Book Challenge 49 joeinma , April 2008Dormant: Hardboiled / Noir Crime Fiction : Essential Noir 23 tros , April 2008Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : New member. open to opinion 62 citizenkelly , January 2008Dormant: List Five Books Parlour Game : Same name, different book 27 gmork , December 2007Dormant: The Green Dragon : Tell us what you are reading now, part II 279 readhead , July 2007Dormant: The Green Dragon : What aren't you reading now? 64 xicanti , May 2007Dormant: What did YOU buy today? : Message Board 397 aluvalibri , April 2007Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 13 January 2007 113 Bookmarque , January 2007
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Got interested in Faulkner relatively early. I enjoyed "A Rose for Emily" in HS English. I've read As I Lay Dying and Sanctuary ... both when I was too young to get the plot and follow it. In my later years, I read Wild Palms aka "If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem." Haven't read Faulkner in ...
... never finished, my first Faulkner novel was The Reivers.
At the moment, I am working my way ever so slowly through Sanctuary , and hoping to somehow finish my personal challenge during winter break - which is totally unlikely.
... the time you all start, after I read Flags in the Dust (start tomorrow! woo! excited!) and the Sound and the Fury and Sanctuary . I'm sure not many are interested in a chronological reading list like I am, where Flags would be the first group read. And I also presume everyone wants to ...
... could get from the back of the book is a good idea.
I picked up a bunch of Faulkner at used book stores and was thinking Sanctuary might be a good place to start. How the book would work as a Faulkner introduction might also be something you could add, since he does have a reputation as being ...
Back by Henry Green
Melanctha by Gertrude Stein
Trinity by Leon Uris
Pylon by Wiliam Faulkner
Glover by Francis Pollini
#71 Sanctuary by William Faulkner
... a fifteen-pound lock that is simply hilarious and, by the end, houses a sad character from the play.
Unless you've read Sanctuary , this sequel-of-sorts won't make a lot of sense. Temple Drake and Gowan Stevens are carried over as actors in the play, which I think is one of Faulkner's weaker ...
Currently reading:
The City and The City by China Mieville
The Getaway Man by Andrew Vachss
Sanctuary by Ken Bruen
High Life by Matthew Stokoe
Forgot to add Savage Season by Joe R. Lansdale in my original post.
I've been on a noir kick for the last few months.
... as Child of God does. Suttree is a real departure; more like Cannery Row & Sweet Thursday from Steinbeck than Sanctuary or Lie Down in Darkness.
If you like southern genre, read Feather Crowns by Bobbie Ann Mason; it's her finest novel in my opinion.
Touchstones don't always work. Yes, I knew about Sanctuary but whatever his intentions, inadvertant or not, it is a work of genius. I love McCarthy's books. I've read 7 out of the 10 and I think he is the greatest living novelist. I haven't a read a single work of fiction that comes close in 2 ...
Did you know, he wrote Sanctuary to make $, put all that lurid sex into it, and then, after it went to the publisher he pulled it back and spend all of his profit rewriting it to make Popeye an understandable human being - albeit evil.
i don't really care for McCarthy. I bought, and to trump ...
... but I can say that after that the rest are decidedly more approachable. If you are a Cormac McCarthy fan, start with Sanctuary so you can probe real evil up front
... in a series of his novels perhaps 25 years ago, so by then I was quite accustomed to his style. Sound and the Fury and Sanctuary and As I Lay Dying were especial favorites.
I realize this is the books I left UNFINISHED thread, but last night I FINISHED Eleven Minutes by Paolo Coelho - ...
... by Neil Gaiman, my first Gaiman. Loved the picture of London underground. Not sure I'd want to live there.
Starting Sanctuary by Faulkner, somehow I missed it when I was in my Faulkner period.
And Charlie, as far as your review of Sanctuary by Faulkner goes we all stopped at the word "mess"merized cuz we all have/make our own. heeheehee
... few minutes ago when I opened my LT homepage and saw 12 (Belva's correct) unread messages. I had no idea that my review of Sanctuary would cause such a stir. I was beside myself with pride and a hearty well-done.
All for naught, as it turns out. Not one word about Faulkner, or even about
... but I forgot what the hell nice thing I was going to say. Maybe it'll come to me once I get out of this POD.
As far as Sanctuary , o' mentor of mine, do you generally agree with my assessment? And where to next: Requiem for a Nun to find out more about Temple?
... you can't do photos that way. I was just poking at Charlie because I really wanted to see what he was going to say about Sanctuary . Funny, but I just don't have any gripes about this site; I see that everything you say is true...it just doesn't bother me. I love what it does so much I'm ...
20. Sanctuary , William Faulkner
This was my sixth Faulkner novel and, like the others, I was mesmerized by it. I know I've used that verb before, but I don't know how else to describe how deeply involved I get when I read him. Faulkner purposely leaves out details, character motivations, and ...
Coming soon to this thread: my review of Faulkner's Sanctuary . I need to ruminate about it first before I start shooting off my big mouth.
#121. Thanks for your thumb!
I haven't read As I Lay Dying yet--my plan is to read Sanctuary next.
Rule No. 7 is my favorite. It explains why The Sound and the Fury is a better book than Sanctuary . And why so many authors lose their spark after a while---because they keep trying to reproduce the one that made them a success, not realizing that they DID that already.
Charlie, you're probably ready for Sanctuary , but billiejean, PLEASE don't start your reintroduction to Faulkner with that one. It will give you an entirely skewed idea of his work and his people. Not that it isn't a good book--it definitely has its place in his body of work. But it's the one ...
... novels -- and I thought that I was familiar with what he wrote. I went to the handy-dandy "will you like it?" feature of Sanctuary , and it said that I would love it. How does LT know this about me? Is this like how Amazon knows when I am out of coffee and what books I want to order? I am ...
... Snopes trilogy: The Hamlet, The Town, and The Mansion.
As far as reading one of his major novels, I'm considering Sanctuary --once I finish his short stories.
I'm pretty windy considering I'm no help, aren't I.
... other short stories by Faulkner? I've read Wild Palms, As I Lay Dying (even though I felt lost half the time), and Sanctuary (which I struggled through), but not his short stuff. Granted I was young at the time and wanted to show my Literary Snob Street Cred at my local public school, ...
... {4/19}, The Magician {5/2}, Far Eastern Tales {9/21}
15. Wharton: The Glimpses of the Moon {3/15}, Summer {9/12}, Sanctuary {10/1}
16. Updike: Rabbit, Run {1/29}, Rabbit Redux {4/3}, Rabbit is Rich {10/7}
17. Melville: Billy Budd {5/1}, Bartleby, the Scrivener {7/2}, Typee ...
4. By Mercedes Lackey:
Foundation
The Serpent’s Shadow
Joust
Alta
Sanctuary
The Black Swan
Knight of Ghosts and Shadows
Summoned to Tourney
The Eagle & The Nightingales
... these too, but did not want to buy them.
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
and my husband started reading Sanctuary so we took that too, it is a new translation, we have an older one.
I have a membership limited to 4 books, but can upgrade to 8 books when needed.
I ...
I'm currently reading Sanctuary by William Faulkner and rereading Salem's Lot by Stephen King. I have The Heretic's Daughter next on my list.
A. Books bought in airport shops
1. The Sanctuary * by Raymond Khoury
2. John Adams by David McCullough (supports the US President's Challenge)
3. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
4. Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years by Michael Palin
5. Obama: From Promise to Power by David Mendell ( ...
OC: Blithe Spirit EX: Sanctuary , To Have and Have Not, The Histories, Housekeeping, The Wordy Shipmates, White Jazz, The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, The Child in Time, Crome Yellow
Sanctuary ***½
by William Faulkner
10/22/08
... Fortunately, A Man Called Peter who was a passenger on the bus averted disaster by applying the brakes. Otherwise, that Sanctuary in Paradise would have been a Bleak House indeed.
... cover), see my library
Het hermetisch zwart by Yourcenar
Van oude mensen, de dingen die voorbijgaan a Dutch classic
Het gangstermeisje Temple Drake by Faulkner (translation of Sanctuary)
and
Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen by Huizinga, classic work about the end of the middelages, English ...
... by Beryl Bainbridge **½
Double {complete}
9. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Peter Süskind ****
10. Sanctuary by William Faulkner ***½
11. Housekeeping by by Marilynne Robinson ***½
12. White Jazz by James Ellroy *½
13. Yellow Crome by Aldous Huxley ***
14. O ...
finished the trilogy a while back...not long after posting that i went ahead and bought Sanctuary so when i get around to it i plan on reading it first...even as i wrote that post i thought i'd known the answer anway, so thanks for the input!
... about it before. In any case, if you're still looking for advice on the subject, I would say you should definitely read Sanctuary first. The thing with Faulkner is, you find yourself needing to read in circles, because so many things are interwoven, as you say. Quite likely if you read Sanc ...
... this group. As a fan of Faulkner's fiction for 35 years, I have to chime in. I would not recommend anyone to start with Sanctuary . As you say, he did originally write it as a pot boiler, but by the time it was published, he had pretty much scrapped everything and done it all over, so he ...
Ragtime
Airport
Trainspotting
Filth
Sphere
Cocoon
Sanctuary
Deliverance
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33.Darkness Falls - Kyle Mills
34.Homeland Security - Alexa Hunt
35.The Nominee - Brian McGrory
36.The Sanctuary - Raymond Khoury
37.Burning Angel - James Lee Burke
38.The Boston Italians - Stephen Puelo
39.Dead Line - Brian McGrory
40.Strangled ...
... looks like based on the recommendations I'll start with As I Lay Dying or The Reivers.
Originally I was thinking of Sanctuary just because I figured if it was Faulkner version of a pot boiler he probably tried to dumb himself down.
#36 - The Sanctuary by Raymond Khory is my final book for March. On my current pace, that would mean 144 books for the year.
After you've read and--frankly, I suggest re-read--Reivers, probably your best next choice is Sanctuary . That shows Faulkner's cruelty clearly while giving touches of the nacreous style he later secreted around it. A literary curiosity is No Orchids for Miss Blandish, which seems to have been ...
... you don't have to go through my library, I've listed what I have already here: The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary , Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, The Unvanquished, The Hamlet, Go Down, Moses, Intruder in the Dust. (I also have his collected and uncollected ...
i recently discovered that Requiem for a Nun is a sequel to Sanctuary so i was wondering how necessary (or beneficial) it is that i read Sanctuary first...i plan on, before i die anyway, both (as with everything William Faulkner wrote) but i currently have the sequel and not the uh, first ...
#35 Sanctuary by William Faulkner (November): This book thoroughly impressed me. It is a grim tale of evil: rape, prejudice and cowardice in small-town Mississippi, but it is written in Faulkner’s brilliant style, with equal parts brutal realism and transcendent lyricism. It is so ...
Sanctuary by William Faulkner
Sanctuary by Edith Wharton
The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Double by Greg Boyd
The Homecoming by Harold Pinter
The Homecoming by Ray Bradbury
same subject, but still--same title!
Matisse by Rene Percheron
M ...
I'm re-reading William Faulkner's Sanctuary .
I'm not reading Sanctuary by Faulkner. I will probably not be reading all next weekend while I'm out of town, but I hope to be finished not reading it a few weeks later.
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stroreetllr: I liked Angels Fall but not as much as Northern Lights, which I feel is by far her best book, along with Sanctuary .
I just finished Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Gossamer by Lois Lowry, and I'm currently finishing Born in Death by J. D. Robb. Next is The Burni ...
... The Playboy of the Western World, Dylan Thomas' Adventures in the Skin Trade, and other stories, Faulkner's Sanctuary with Requiem for a Nun, and Literature of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century, a slim volume of literary history/criticism which may be a touch old but ...
... the following year starring Tyrone Power)
Raymond Chandler -- Farewell, My Lovely
William Faulkner -- Sanctuary (not sure about the sequel, Requiem For a Nun, as I haven't read it yet; from what I've read about it, I'd guess that it shouldn't be included)
B. Tr ...
I nominate Sanctuary and by William Faulkner. He always claimed he wrote it to be a shocker, to make money. But when it came to actually publishing it, he completely rewrote it, ending with a book still dark and shocking, but now much more than mere pulp. The Library of America's Crime Nove ...
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