As I Lay Dying

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Faulkner's distinctive narrative structures--the uses of multiple points of view and the inner psychological voices of the characters--in one of its most successful incarnations here in As I Lay Dying. In the story, the members of the Bundren family must take the body of Addie, matriarch of the family, to the town where Addie wanted to be buried. Along the way, we listen to each of the members on the macabre pilgrimage, while Faulkner heaps upon them various flavors of disaster. Contains the famous chapter completing the equation about mothers and fish--you'll see.

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At the heart of this 1930 novel is the Bundren family's bizarre journey to Jefferson to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Faulkner lets each family member--including Addie--and others along the way tell their private responses to Addie's life.

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Confusion about ordering.......2007-09-27

I liked the book a lot but was unhappy about getting (and paying for) two copies rather than just one. I ordered one copy via the one-click method but there was no evidence that the order went through. Then I ordered again and the second time I got the usual confirmation. I was surprised when two separate deliveries came with the same book! Now I'm wary of using one-click ordering.

Some will say "tragic" -- some "hilarious".......2007-09-22

I am of the latter group. I love Faulkner's brand of humor. One could look at this as early "mississipius peccadillus" and be right on the money. Certainl the poor folks of Mississippi had layers of problems back in the early 20th Century (and as they do today!) and this family was no exception. Maw dies, but before she does, she forces Paw to promise that he'll bury her where she wants to be buried -- far away! They have neither money nor viable means to get her there but the old man tries his damndest to make good on his dubious promise.
I should say that this work is VERY much akin (a pun there) to Jesse Stuart's "Taps for Private Tussie" in both subject matter and in Flavour as well. So if you end up loving this one you may as well grab "Tussie" too!
This one is a hoot, albeit, some folks will say I'm a sicko for saying that. One of Faulkner's best and true to his bizarre writing style.

The dialog is like "music" and you hear it. A stream of Consciousness, first class approach to telling a story.......2007-09-08

The story is set in Yoknapatawpha County. As you begin to read you seem to step into a different time and place. It is the dialog, the tone, and voice presented that makes this book such a positive experience.
This is the story of Addie Bundren, the mother, and of her family and how they wait and then deal with her death. It also is the struggle to bury her and how that struggle is met with by each of the characters. It starts out with her lying on her bed waiting to dye. Close by her son Cash is sawing and hammering together her coffin. Another son Darl talks another brother Jewel into going to get a load of lumber for the coffin.
The events are told over 59 chapters from the point of view of 15 different narrators. Each chapter is the point of view of one character-narrator. By the time you get through the trip and events you have heard the points of view of all of them and even the thinking of Addie from inside her coffin as she lay then dead.
It is the approach and style of telling the story that is most interesting. The words bring the characters to life. Each seems to compliment each other is rhyme and tempo but each looks at the events different.
The writing style is called "stream of consciousness:" and it is a method where you feel the inner thinking and reactions of the narrator who points out much more than the simple events in the words they express. You seem to hear their inner thoughts.
This book is considered Faulkner's best novel. It is not easy to read. It may take several readings and it is better read slowly trying to listen to the words.

Faulkner was no fish .......2007-08-26

This breakthrough novel written in 1929 and published in 1930 tells its story through multiple- narrators each of whom has his or her own distinctive character , perspective and style. The technique used here is also used in a more perfect way and with more distinct voices in Faulkner's greater masterpiece , "The Sound and the Fury". Here Addie Bundren the mother of the family lies dying.(The title is taken from Agamemmon 's words in the Odyssey, "As I lay dying, the woman with the dog's eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades".)
She insists as act of revenge upon her selfish, lazy husband Anse to have her burial in Jefferson. The story the book will tell will be the journey towards that burial. Addie's children Darl, the most sane at first and Cash the skilled carpenter who dries to build her coffin in a way easy for her to rest in, Jewel the illegitimate one and her favorite the son of the preacher she has had an affair with, Dewey Dell the only girl who herself is in a compromised position, pregnant by her boyfriend Larl, and Vardamon the youngest who sees all of reality unclearly in mixed- up pictures, each tell the story as stream- of - consciousness narrative. Each of the fifty- nine chapters has a character doing the telling in its own way. Through this technique we get to see more intimately each character and their relations with each other. The story not an easy one contains violence greed lust and disruption, but also in certain relations and moments signs of more caring relations, as in Darl who eventually goes mad feeling for his mother, or Dewey Dell's caring for all the children.
This is one of Faulkner's most famous novels and if not in the very first rank is still a remarkable, powerful, innovative and passionately alive one.
Faulkner was no fish.

a Faulkner for the masses.......2007-08-22

I enjoyed this one a lot more than The Sound and the Fury - it didn't make me want to pound my head on the wall in the least.

The short chapters kept the pace going, and once I got a feel for the characters the different viewpoints in each chapter worked very well.

The foreshadowing of events through hints from different perspectives kept the interest up until the action in question was fully revealed.

Not a "dumbed-down" novel, but much more accessible and enjoyable to read.

A Summer of Faulkner: As I Lay Dying/The Sound and the Fury/Light in August (Oprah's Book Club)

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Great American literature
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O Oprah
Quite a challenge for the average reader
Not for me.

A Summer of Faulkner: As I Lay Dying/The Sound and the Fury/Light in August (Oprah's Book Club)
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Release Date: 2005-06-03

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The 2005 Summer Selection is available in an exclusive three volume boxed edition that includes a special reader’s guide with an introduction by Oprah Winfrey.

Titles include:
As I Lay Dying
This novel is the harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Told in turns by each of the family members–including Addie herself–the novel ranges in mood from dark comedy to the deepest pathos. Originally published in 1930.

The Sound and the Fury
First published in 1929, Faulkner created his “heart’s darling,” the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers–the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason.

Light in August
Light in August, a novel about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, features some of Faulkner’s most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend Gail Hightower, who is plagued by visions of Confederate horsemen; and Joe Christmas, a desperate, mysterious drifter consumed by his mixed ancestry. Originally published in 1932.

Take a seat in Oprah’s Classroom and sign up for Faulkner 101 on www.oprah.com/bookclub.

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Great American literature.......2007-06-28

The Oprah's Book Club is a great, inexpensive way to own these literary pearls. If you do not know what you are getting into I suggest you read first Light in August, then As I Lay Dying and finally, after bracing, The Sound and the Fury. I found the second a tad too dry and dark, but that's Faulkner. The last one is a book you will eventually reread. The first reading could be helped by the many high quality institutional web sites where this masterpiece is dissected and even rearranged for ease of approach. I am witholding a star simply because I have formed the opinion that Faulkner is, to put in mildly, racially biased or at least wrote for the racially biased. I would love to hear what Oprah thinks about this aspect of Faulkner's but I do not have the time. Enjoy.

Challenging and thought-provoking.......2007-01-05

These novels are not to be read for sheer pleasure, but rather for the challenge and the depth. They are not easy to read, though *Light in August* is the easiest of the three. The prose is so difficult at times that I needed to reread again and again. I had to stop and take numerous breaks because my brain got twisted around.

I strongly suggest getting research materials from a university librray if at all possible to help navigate the stories. In the end, the depth of these novels is profound and extremely rewarding. It was only after I finished them (and read a lot of extra research articles) that I truly appreciated them. These novels are definitely amazing and a great account of southern life in the early part of the 20th century (and after the civil war), and I admire Faulkner more than I ever thought I could.

If you thought James Joyce was complex, try Faulkner!

O Oprah.......2006-08-27

AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner

I respect what he did, but I read about 15% of this one before I got bored. I don't agree with Oprah that he's difficult. I knew exactly where he was coming from and where he wanted to go. Many relevant themes and he was a damn fine wordsmith. But it's old news to this jaded old redneck. I don't know why. I realize I just dismissed an author who deserved his Pulitzers and his Nobel Prize, in a single short paragraph, but please hold back on the hate mail.

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THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner

Ditto. You hate me, don't you?

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LIGHT IN AUTUMN by William Faulkner

Ditto. Hoo boy, now you want me dead.

Quite a challenge for the average reader.......2006-07-25

Quite a challenge for the average reader.

I want to say something like, "you owe it to yourself to read these books."... and perhaps you do. I, however, don't get it. I read the insert by Opera, and all the scholars, I read As I Lay Dying, like I was supposed to, and I simply don't get the allure of Faulkner.

So reader beware. It is a challenge to read Faulkner, not because his ideas are so very profound, but because his writing style leaves me unable to care for any of his characters in any meaningful way. The dialogue is far too folksy, and though I fully realize what he is doing (presenting to us the depth of the human experience by showing us the trials and tribulations of poor folk who are just trying to make a living) I found I had no time to plod through anything more than the first 100 pages.

I realize mine is just one opinion, but think before you buy. In the reader's guide that accompanies the books, Opera suggests that you are not really a reader unless you have read Faulkner. Please take that with a grain of salt and give yourself a break... Faulkner just might not be for you.

Not for me........2006-02-22

I tried, really I did, to read these books. They were very difficult to understand. I even did an online discussion with "experts" to try to figure out what was going on, but it just didn't happen. I read "As I Lay Dying" entirely & the story behind the story told by the "experts" was okay, but did not make the read worth the time. The 2nd book, I couldn't get past the first few chapters & by the third book, I had given up. Definitely not my style.

William Faulkner : Novels 1930-1935 : As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, Pylon (Library of America)

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My Mother is a Fish

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Between 1930 and 1935, William Faulkner came into full possession of the genius and creativity that made him America's greatest writer of the twentieth century. "As I Lay Dying" is a dark comedy, full of horror and compassion, of a rural Mississippi family bearing the corpse of their matriarch to burial in town. "Sanctuary," a violent novel of sex and social class that moves from Mississippi back roads to the flesh-pots of Memphis, features a sadistic gangster named Popeye and a debutante with an affinity for evil. "Light in August," a near-religious vision of the hopeful stubbornness of ordinary life, is perhaps Faulkner's most moving work. "Pylon," a tale of barnstorming aviators, examines the bonds of loyalty and desire among three men and a woman. All are presented in restored texts as part of The Library of America's new, authoritative edition of Faulker's complete works.

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Old Drunk Mellifluous.......2006-05-17

Faulkner has a savage and beautiful voice, if you can call it his voice: it's like some linguistic force comes from nowhere and overwhelms his stories and takes them to places that the novel-form never went before. His writing is wildly modern yet full of ancient, mythic resonances - the Bible, the Greeks - which creates a very large sense of time and history in his work. Events traumatize, ripple across history. At his best (As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Absalom! Absalom!), Faulkner is difficult but fascinating, worth our patient reading efforts. He invents new ways of writing for a modernizing world that needs some way to keep contact with the past and the dead, and this is both taxing and exhilarating.

Good Intro to Faulkner.......2003-09-11

I am currently reading Sound and the Fury and it is not an easy read. Fortunately, I started out with this volume and read Sanctuary. If you want to get into Faulkner this is an excellent place to start. It is a great story, shocking though it may be, and gives a good idea of what's to come if you want to delve deeper into WF. Next I read Light in August which may be one of his best. Faulkner is a genius at creating characters and then going into the details of their psyche. Every now and then he gets a little over-indulgent in his wordsmithing but always seems to bring it back home before going too far afield.

Faulkner is the green tea of literature. He's a great story teller but still a bit of an aquired taste. Once you get into his work, though, you'll definitely want more.

Some of the best from one of the South's best writers ..........2001-10-14

Faulkner is, without a doubt, one of the South's best writers, and re-reading this collection of novels after many years affirms that belief for me. He was a master of words and I wish we had more Faulkner novels to feast on. Almost no one can measure up to him!

A superb collation and an outstanding value.......2000-05-28

There is nothing quantitative in this volume that you can't get in other editions of Faulkner's work; however, the Library of America copy is to be strongly commended for the clarity of its typeface, its sturdy cloth-bound hardcover, and its designed ability to *lie flat* at each page. The only fault I could find with this volume is that it would be nice to have _The Sound and the Fury_ included in a Library of America edition as well (currently, the Modern Library edition is the best that can be done). I strongly recommend this edition to the serious reader who, familiar with Faulkner, is looking for a reference copy of these works that will not deteriorate over time (did I mention acid-free paper and a cloth bookmark?). Considering the price of each of these titles in paperback, this volume's value to the casual reader speaks for itself; you, too, are advised to invest in this worthy tome.

My Mother is a Fish.......2000-03-30

There are many great books, but I have read only two perfect ones, "As I Lay Dying" by Faulkner and Shakespeare's "King Lear." Lear's "howl" after Cordelia's death is (I think) the high point of English literature and Vardeman's internal dialoge (and chapter heading "My Mother is a Fish") is the purest form of writing expression and the high-water mark of American Literature. If you like to read, there are so many subtle threads that run through "As I Lay Dying." You'll recognize Chaucer, T.S.Eliot, and I think Shakespeare's "Lear." Like Gorky, Faulkner uses common people to expound upon universal themes like betrayal and unrequited love, but he does it better, and looks at it harder, than anyone has before or since.

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As I Lay Dying: Meditations Upon Returning

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Richard John Neuhaus: As I Lay Dying
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Release Date: 2003-04-01

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Every night as we lay down to sleep we practice a form of death, according to Richard Neuhaus in As I Lay Dying. The rhythm of life and death is indeed as natural as the rhythm of waking and sleeping. But few of us know it as literally as does Neuhaus, who found himself drifting in and out of consciousness after a tumor ruptured his intestines and the subsequent botched surgery caused internal hemorrhaging. One night he was visited by two beings, which he calls angels, who assured him that "Everything is ready now." Dramatic as all this sounds, As I Lay Dying is not so much Neuhaus's near-death-experience tale as it is a Christian discussion of death from the vantage point of a Catholic priest who heard death knocking at his door.

This is not a feel-good book about the white light and smiling family members at the end of the tunnel. Relying on Scripture, Catholic doctrine, and the words of poets and famous writers, Neuhaus ponders questions such as: Can the soul live on, separate from the body? Is it possible to have death with dignity? How is it that we can be propelled into a tailspin of grief over one death, but be indifferent to the ethnic slaughter of millions in central Africa? Is there really life after death? Christians who are close to death, whether it be their own or that of a loved one, may find this a useful companion, if only for Neuhaus's willingness to shed light on our darkest fears while being brave enough to not know all the answers. --Gail Hudson

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As I Lay Dying tells the story of one person's encounter with death and what he learned from that encounter. Richard John Neuhaus has been to the very edge of mortality, and he has lived to tell about it--with deep wisdom, relentless realism, unconquerable hope, and more than a touch of humor. This is a book of meditations for religious believers, unbelievers, and those who are not sure what they believe. Beautifully written, intellectually probing, and uncompromisingly candid, As I Lay Dying shakes the foundation of our being, and then leads, oddly but unconvincingly, to a peave that is on the far side of our fear and our despair.

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Richard John Neuhaus: As I Lay Dying.......2007-08-08

When you are a Catholic of certain sympathies, you have a strange feeling opening a "little book" like this. I get the same feeling when I see an opinion piece by Peggy Noonan or George Weigel; I'm not sure if I can describe it. You like the writer - they're sort of on your side - but you inevitably come away wondering if you can really trust what they wrote. I don't know if trust is the right word. It's about the images they use and the memories they awaken; you wonder if they're exactly right. It's not a matter of intelligence or talent. You can't really blame them for not being poets, they've never claimed to be. But they like poets and they quote or otherwise evoke them. And you dread the evocation because you might not be able to believe in it; it will have been somehow trivialized or changed along the way. And you regret it because there are few enough people "on your side" and you want to feel good about those already there, especially those with the courage to speak. And these are good writers.

But this little book is different from what I expected. Fr. Neuhaus humbly anticipates those feelings - he almost shares them - and weaves them into the style of his meditations:

"These are snatches of philosophy, theology, biography, poetry, and heaven knows what else, all churning, as I discovered them churning, around the question of what was happening to the me I call 'I'" (137).

That is a good thing to say, for several reasons. It is, in part, an apology for the kind of book that it is - but an apology that would not, in the end, preclude its writing; it does, in fact, call for it. It is also a kind of apology for the lack of a "definitive authority" (and thereby, a lack of apparent "coherence") for he does not claim to know what is operative in the "churning," that is, he does not really know the kind or source of the strength that binds his disparate thoughts together. He only marks a certain consistency guiding his thoughts by which he is able to bring them together into a piece of writing.

This deference before the sharpened possibility of death explains his willingness to speak with different voices, using the words of poets, philosophers, and novelists together with his own and those of his friends and family, that is, it is a statement of style, alluding also to a "justification" for that style. It is never a celebration of his own erudition (which is, nevertheless, considerable). It has often been said that the novel is the only kind of writing where this "crossing of disciplines"is appropriate (if it is ever appropriate). But, in the end, it is not really the author's "fault" that he thought what he thought as he lay dying. As he says, "death is the death of explanation" (124). To write in this way is to give up explanation as the usual "motive" for writing. In a time that seemingly belongs to "experts" and "scientists" this book is an important reflection on why and how we write at all.

Neuhaus on death and dying.......2007-05-03

This short book is sub-titled "Meditations Upon Returning". It is written by former Lutheran minister now Catholic convert-priest Richard John Neuhaus. Neuhaus is the editor of the interfaith journal First Things, and a prolific author and commentator.

Neuhaus spends the first part of the book musing on life and death, and then writes about his own experience of illness, misdiagnosis, colon cancer, botched surgery, ICU, and almost dying in 1995. He offers some cogent reflections on the experience, based on his own faith and clinging to that faith.

On page 112, Neuhaus describes the strange experience/vision he had a few days after leaving ICU. Rather then describing it as a "near death" experience, he says "I am inclined to think of it as a 'near life' experience."

"...All of a sudden I was jerked into an utterly lucid state of awareness. ... By the drapery were two 'presences.' I saw them and yet did not see them, and I cannot explain that ... And then the presences - one or both of them, I do not know - spoke. This I heard clearly. Not in an ordinary voice, for I cannot remember anything about the voice. But the message was beyond mistaking: 'Everything is ready now.'

That was it. ..."

Neuhaus goes on to discuss this event in the context of his whole experience of sickness, near-death and rocovery. He draws no concrete conclusions, beyond affirming that it was a real occurrence and he drew some comfort from it.

The book is a quick read - less then 170 pages long, and is a good account of one man's confrontation with mortality and what he learned from it. Neuhaus weaves a great deal of Christian reflection, philosophy, poetry, and literature into his narrative. It is much more then just an analysis of the strange experience recounted above.

So, the interesting reflection of a Christian intellectual believer facing his own possible death around the age of 60.

What it's like to die.......2006-06-06

I hate to beat up on a guy who practically died, but having suffered through this tedious little book, he owes me.

"As I Lay Dying" is a well-meaning book by a very intelligent, well-placed and well-read Catholic priest who (sadly) has nothing much to say. The book is an endless, detached musing on the meaning of death, on the experience of dying, and on the thoughts of poets, saints and philosophers. But it adds up to very little in the end. Neuhaus offers very few definitive insights and few interesting stories. He knocks (rightly) the dopey bravado we assume when facing death as well as our inability to help our loved ones to face the end of their lives. But these insights are told in passing -- as though he is retelling tales learned from others. Neuhaus tells little of his own story -- you don't even know what was making him sick until a third of the way through the book. (Spoiler: a tumor caused his colon to rupture -- now you know!) His suppositions and musings circle and circle aimlessly on the winds of his own meandering reminiscences.

I picked up this book as an aid to a family member who lost her father. She never made it past the dust jacket. It was a wise decision: the book would not have helped her in her own grief.

Some may interpret my harshness as my confession to being shallow. So be it. But now I know what it is like to wait for death; it is like reading this book.

last things.......2005-09-14

Very interesting and objective report on the actuality of being face to face with death. I hope it will be of help to me when it comes my time to know that this is it - I'm dying - I am about to face my God right this minute, and give an account of my life. No second chance, no excuses. Better be prepared.

Open and honest............2005-07-08

I became aware of Fr. Richard John Neuhaus through the many publications which cite his works. As he is so highly esteemed by so many, I was soon familiar with the magazine "First Things" which eventually led to this book. The prospect of death is a frightening thing, no how-to manual guides us through it, no expert is around to consult. Thus, it is somewhat illuminating to have a theologian of Neuhaus's stature relate in a brutally honest manner the experience of nearly dying. This is no mamby-pamby, it'll be OK, self-help session. This is a coming to terms; a frank look at the inevitable.

Neuhaus barely escaped the clutches of cancer and it is the wisdom accrued during this momentous occasion that he attempts to pass on to the reader. I read this book in two sittings. It is compelling in both it's simple honesty and the complexity of it's ramifications.

With death at the door, Neuhaus claims the experience of a lifetime - an experience, no doubt, that has amplified his life and removed the sharper edges from the knowledge of an ultimate day. Having taken it all in, I do not know that I am more prepared to die, but, certainly, I am more prepared to appreciate the value of a life well lived. For this alone, As I Lay Dying is worth reading. 5 stars.

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The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background.

CliffsNotes on As I Lay Dying takes you into the lives of not one, but several narrators in this novel about the value of life. The central problem of the novel involves the reasons for Addie’s request to be buried and why her family defies fire and water to fulfill it.

This study guide will guide you through the plot of the novel and through the process of analyzing each character’s problems and motivations. Other features that help you study include

Information on the life and background of William Faulkner
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Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure — you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.

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By telling the story through the voices of several narrators, Faulkner provided deep observations of a Southern family's move to a new town and life.

The book is not only compelling because of the story, but also because of the depth and richness of the characters.

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Why do you really need cliffnotes?.......2005-03-11

if your not going to take the time to read the book, then do the literary community a favor and remain ignorant of the story instead of using half assed cliffnotes written by some guy/corporation hell bent on swindling dollars out of stupid clueless people.
when books are assigned to you in class your main task is clear. read the damn book! if this is too hard for you then why are you thinking reading a set outline of vague notes would be any better?
to the people that have problems reading. just practice god damnit! it doesnt take magical skills to learn how to read, some people just take longer than others (even years) but if you keep practicing you should eventually be able to read on your own without the help of some stupid douche.

Hard 2 understand.......2002-01-10

I read this book for OAC english. It is very hard to understand when Darl Narrates. Other than that it is a well written novel.
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i enjoyed this book.......2001-12-03

i love the way willian faulkner wrote this book,u get each characters own thoughts, and personal expierences of the adventure this family went through. In the begining of the book, i guess it was because theyre were so many diferent nerators, it was kind of confusing, and hard to get into. But as i progressed through the book i found myself not being able to put the book down in curiosity of what would lie before me in the folowing chapters. i dont read much but i enjoyed this book.

i enjoyed this book.......2001-12-03

i didnt really like it........2001-11-29

I think that if you are into literature than you might like this book but I think that it wasnt as great as my professor said it was going to be

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As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner
Manufacturer: Vintage Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

ASIN: B000EEAU1G

Mientras Agonizo / As I Lay Dying (Biblioteca De Autor / Author Library)

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Mientras Agonizo / As I Lay Dying (Biblioteca De Autor / Author Library)
William Faulkner
Manufacturer: Alianza (Buenos Aires, AR)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 8420656577

William Faulkner, Four Novels, (A Light in August, As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, The Sound and the Fury)

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William Faulkner, Four Novels, (A Light in August, As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, The Sound and the Fury)

Manufacturer: Random House
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Hardcover, Red Binding, Gold Lettering, Collector's item

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