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    <body><![CDATA[Just shoot me! I get it, I get it. William Faulkner is &quot;one of the greats&quot; a &quot;lead in the canon of American History.&quot; However, I cannot bring myself to appreciate his work. The only reason I made it all the way through the book was because I was forced to read it for a literature...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46976042">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After giving up on &quot;Absalom! Absalom!&quot;, I turned to this in the set of four Faulkner novels that I had checked out from the library.  I've been a fan of Faulkner's since high school when I did a thesis on &quot;The Sound and the Fury&quot;...I respect his technical superiority immensely, b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58381423">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Faulkner is my favorite author so take this review with a grain of salt if you already know that you are not a Faulkner fan.  This is sort of Faulkner-lite; it tears along like a good western and has the feel of an adventure story.  <br/><br/>Alas, the racial politics feel like a slightly more sop...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63970913">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think I could reread this book a few times in a row and appreciate it more and more each time and see things I didn't see before. Such beautiful language. Poetic. The chapters of this book were originally published as stories in magazines and then threaded together...except he was never able to ge...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68766437">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Still making my mind up about this one; in many ways, I like this novel as much if not more than I liked much of the Faulkner that I've read.  It's unified in that there was only one point of view character, Bayard Sartoris, as opposed to the multiple narrators (sometimes as many as fifteen) that ar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33858153">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Focuses on the period leading into, the period of, and the period immediately after the Civil War. This constitutes an entry in the Yoknapawtapha Saga, Faulkner's life's work. <br/><br/>Like several of his works, this can be taken as either a collection of short stories or a novel told in related ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30989344">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Apparently I had to read this book for a college course on Southern Women Writers. I had no recollection of it, or of why we had to read Faulkner's version of Southern womanhood. Probably because I read it in 2 hours at Lamont Library during a forced reading frenzy &amp; retained zippo.<br/><br/>Anyho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20280568">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After finishing this book, I read the editor's note. This book is apparently a collection of short stories that Faulkner strung together for publishing after all but one of them had already been published in magazines. The stories are good, focusing on a family (and the slaves the own) and their att...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46731802">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My first Faulkner.  Recommended to me by Taylor.  I really enjoyed it overall.  There were certainly times where I was downright confused.  But, I found my way through it, and really enjoyed the story.  It was told in an interesting perspective where all of the characters seem to know something, but...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3777355">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this in high school, many years ago, so my review could be different if I had read the book now.  I remember this book as being confusing and having too many characters to keep up with.  It was a chore to read and not enjoyable.  I'll give Faulkner a chance, though, because a friend recommend...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66955441">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The novel contains sections that were originally written as short stories for separate publication and later re-worked by Faulkner as well as one section written solely for the novel.  It follows the life of a young southern boy, Bayard Sartoris, from his early teen years to his mid-20s with the Civ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20516879">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've heard how complicated Faulkner is, with paragraphs that go on for days sometimes. BUt, to me, this book was flawless. Truly great read, masterful story telling, to the point, all meat, no fat, brillant descriptions. He takes you on a great ride!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Enjoyed reading a writer with a different style of writing than most.  Unfortunately, civil war story isn't the most compelling storyline for me.  Surprisingly feminist storyline in some ways though.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Faulkner's most accessible novel (originally a series of short stories), it nevertheless contains many unforgetable images. A good place to start if you've never read the author. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Two of the most important themes that I was able to draw away from this book were that war is the great equalizer and that blood-letting perpetuates itself until someone has the moral courage to stand for peace, which often is the harder course.  The book closes on this note and allows the reader to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46555011">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The most tepid Faulkner I've read.  Too pulpy to be fantastic. Nothing you can't get in better form from his other novels. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another episode of the Sartoris family, who must fend for themselves in the Civil War and the Reconstruction period that follows.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Let me start by saying that I love Faulkner and all Southern Gothic novels.  So it isn't a surprise that after readjusting to Faulkner's meandering mega-sentences, I really enjoyed this book.  I would describe it as a young adult novel, much easier to read than &quot;The Sound and the Fury&quot; or ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52151665">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[best starter book for first time faulkner readers]]></body>
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