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I'm about to read "As I Lay Dying," and I'm intrigued. Does anyone have any comments about him?

He's not my taste. The whole stream-of-conciousness writing and the morbid plot (dragging you mother's coffin around during the summer!?) turned me off of "As I Lay Dying", although I have run into other people who like it.

I read As I Lay Dying once.It is a bit hard to follow and not as straightforward to read as Hemingway.I perfer Hemingway.

I had to read parts of it in college. Didn't really like the storyline much. Too much of a downer for me.

If you're reading it for fun: Good luck.

Puguni wrote:I'm about to read "As I Lay Dying," and I'm intrigued. Does anyone have any comments about him?

Err... I read that book... it was monotonous... but it fit with the whole effect that I think he was trying to create in it... it was really tedious, I'm sorry to say.

Out of the Faulkner novels I've read, As I Lay Dying is one of my favorites--and also one of his easier novels to read. It's true that he's very negative, but he is a genius with words, and his characterization is rather striking.

All I've read by him is Barn Burning, for Rhet and Comp 2 last year. It was pretty good. The professor mentioned that there is more written about his works than any other English author.

I don't like his writing style. I read The Sound and the Fury after my junior English teacher lauded Faulkner with praise. I just didn't like it. His short story, "A Rose For Emily," which I read for AP English IV really freaked me out.

I cannot recommend Faulkner's writings at all. Actually, I already posted by thoughts on As I Lay Dying on this forum awhile back. Here are the links:

http://www.christiananime.net/showpost.php?p=597365&postcount=66
http://www.christiananime.net/showpost.php?p=816095&postcount=124

I should also point out that in As I Lay Dying I found the characters to lacked humanizing elements. They seemed to be dark caricatures, none of them having anything which I found I could truly identify with. And while this is not, I suppose, an absolute requirement, I could not find any character in the novel whom I actually liked.

Of course, opinion will vary. Obviously people have their reasons for disagreeing with me, which I respect. But this is how I felt about his writing.

I've only read A Rose for Emily and Absalom, Absalom, since I had to read them for my college English classes. I started reading The Sound and the Fury, but I guess I didn't really get into it, because I never finished it. Some of his stories are a bit too hard to follow to be used as casual reading material.

I finished reading it, and I liked it. I don't know why, but I think I've found a new fondness for dark humor.

I've read A Rose for Emily, Spotted Horses, and The Sound and the Fury. The Sound and the Fury was just about the most difficult book I've ever read. But if you have a teacher or someone who really knows the book and can explain it well, it's really very interesting. Although I got frustrated at times, I really liked it.