William Faulkner

[jaret]

Has anyone read these? If you did what did you think about the books?
Light in August
Sound and Fury
Sanctuary

[ska8er]

Im not into books other than Biology related BUT
I kinda remember when I was a Sophomore in High
School I had to read The Wishing Tree by Faulkner-
I think. I was so elated I was doing summersaults
up and down the hallways. All I know it was about
this young girl who if she crawled into bed with her
left foot and turned her pillow backwards she would
get wishes-now how Friggan great was that. I like to
crawl into bed and turn around and find something
nice and take a guess what?

I also loved the Canterbury Tales- a whole quarter of
a semester that was like a trip to Hell. After that u want
to jump off a cliff and Im using what I read there now in
everything I do today and It gives me such a high that Im
overdosing.

[abcdeqwe]

I read Light in August for ap literature and it was probably my least favorite book we read. I found some of the violence to be gratuitous, the symbolism to be too overt, and the bottom line being that i just didn't really enjoy Faulkner's writing style.

[HeyCameron]

Faulkner's writing style is tough (though "Light in August" is one of the easier ones. The stream-of-conscious style found in Sound and the Fury is quite difficult by comparison).

[Falcons_11]

My favorite novel by William Faulkner is "The Reivers".

OMG! I would have loved to have been 11 year old Lucius Priest, steal my granddad's car, and, with crazy bunch of friends, drive off to Memphis for high (mis)-adventure and end up at Miss Reba's house of ill-repute (a.k.a. whore house).

[ska8er]

My favorite novel by William Faulkner is "The Reivers".

OMG! I would have loved to have been 11 year old Lucius Priest, steal my granddad's car, and, with crazy bunch of friends, drive off to Memphis for high (mis)-adventure and end up at Miss Reba's house of ill-repute (a.k.a. whore house).

And he ended up as the 'youngest pimp" of Miss Reba.:whoops:

[Falcons_11]

And he ended up as the 'youngest pimp" of Miss Reba.:whoops:

That's what makes it a great novel. :rolleyes:

[MiraAniston]

I read it when I was at university. Most of all I liked the novel Light in August. This novel is my first experience of William Faulkner’s writing. I was drawn to it partly because one of my favourite novelists, John Steinbeck, was a great admirer of Faulkner’s work and partly because I felt it was time to fill the gap in my literary education caused by my unfamiliarity with one of the great novelists of the 20th century.

My research into which of Faulkner’s novels to start with indicated that Light in August is one of his more accessible works.