false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174260301m/373755.jpg 373755 28 The story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, "who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him." 1595511 book 1936 Absalom, Absalom! total:5020|5:85|4:62|3:64|2:21|1:15| 5020 19812 7236 425 373755 0679732187 9780679732181 4512 378 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174260301m/373755.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373755.Absalom_Absalom_ 4 21 false Sun Dec 09 11:17:20 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 09 11:18:55 -0800 2007 373755 0679732187 9780679732181 4512 378 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174260301m/373755.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373755.Absalom_Absalom_ 5 12 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Sep 23 20:27:17 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 25 07:15:43 -0700 2007
first of all, Faulkner is always doing things like this:
“He was a barracks filled with stubborn back-looking ghosts still recovering, even forty-three year...more...]]> 373755 0679732187 9780679732181 4512 378 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174260301m/373755.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373755.Absalom_Absalom_ 3 5 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri May 25 08:49:00 -0700 2007 Fri May 25 08:49:08 -0700 2007 more...]]> 373755 0679732187 9780679732181 4512 378 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174260301m/373755.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373755.Absalom_Absalom_ 3 7 false Sun Sep 21 00:40:16 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 21 00:45:26 -0700 2008 more...]]> 373755 0679732187 9780679732181 4512 378 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174260301m/373755.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373755.Absalom_Absalom_ 5 6 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Feb 15 15:06:47 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 16 13:32:08 -0800 2008 781818 0679600728 9780679600725 50 9 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178296734m/781818.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/781818.Absalom_Absalom_The_Corrected_Text 5 3 false Tue Feb 03 07:45:41 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 07:45:41 -0800 2009 more...]]> 373755 0679732187 9780679732181 4512 378 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174260301m/373755.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373755.Absalom_Absalom_ 5 2 false Thu Feb 21 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jul 17 10:22:37 -0700 2007 Wed Feb 27 16:03:06 -0800 2008 more...]]> 373755 0679732187 9780679732181 4512 378 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174260301m/373755.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373755.Absalom_Absalom_ 0 2 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 12 12:49:14 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 12:49:47 -0800 2009
Out of a sense of obligation, I pressed on. ...more...]]> 373755 0679732187 9780679732181 4512 378 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174260301m/373755.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373755.Absalom_Absalom_ 5 2 true Sun Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Sun Feb 17 15:21:25 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 17 15:21:25 -0800 2008 I don't know what it was about this book but it absolutely blew me away. I needed cliffs notes (actually spark notes which are a whole lot better) to understand what was happening. I'm a bit of an ADD reader, I guess, so it was and usually is hard for me to follow dense plots...I prefer dens...more...]]> 373755 0679732187 9780679732181 4512 378 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174260301m/373755.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373755.Absalom_Absalom_ 1 1 false Sat Dec 22 19:10:37 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 22 19:21:46 -0800 2007
"From a little after two oclock until almost sundown of the long still hot weary dead September afternoon they sat in what Miss Coldfield still called the office beacause her father had called it that — a dim hot airless room w...more...]]> 10977 0375508724 9780375508721 347 23 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166394563m/10977.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10977.Absalom_Absalom_ 3 1 false Tue Feb 20 03:39:14 -0800 2007 Tue May 08 07:53:34 -0700 2007 اگرچ...more...]]> 373755 0679732187 9780679732181 4512 378 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174260301m/373755.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373755.Absalom_Absalom_ 1 2 false Thu Sep 27 18:10:35 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 27 18:10:35 -0700 2007
I don't hate everything Faulkner wrote. I even enjoy some of it. This boo...more...]]> 781818 0679600728 9780679600725 50 9 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178296734m/781818.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/781818.Absalom_Absalom_The_Corrected_Text 0 1 false Thu Apr 03 08:29:28 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 03 08:50:10 -0700 2008 more...]]> 373755 0679732187 9780679732181 4512 378 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174260301m/373755.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373755.Absalom_Absalom_ 5 1 false Mon Nov 09 20:00:32 -0800 2009 Thu Aug 14 06:40:05 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 31 13:04:14 -0700 2009
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I am done with Faulkner. I simply cannot stand his writing style. How is it that Tolstoy can make Russian aristoc...more...]]> 373755 0679732187 9780679732181 4512 378 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174260301m/373755.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373755.Absalom_Absalom_ 5 2 false Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Thu Apr 02 19:15:28 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 20:56:06 -0700 2009 1 Absalom, Absalom stands out among the rest. As usual, Faulkner's deft grasp of human nature is spot on, but it is his brilliant layering of the narrative which elevates this book into t...more...]]> 373755 0679732187 9780679732181 4512 378 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174260301m/373755.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373755.Absalom_Absalom_ 4 0 false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Dec 02 18:52:20 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 02 19:47:15 -0800 2009 more...]]> 373755 0679732187 9780679732181 4512 378 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174260301m/373755.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373755.Absalom_Absalom_ 3 0 false Fri Nov 04 00:00:00 -0800 1983 Thu Sep 10 18:18:12 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 18:18:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 373755 0679732187 9780679732181 4512 378 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174260301m/373755.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373755.Absalom_Absalom_ 5 2 false Wed Aug 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 19:59:25 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 21:35:14 -0700 2009
1. If this is the first time you've read Faulkner and you're finding it impossible, STOP! If you want to enjoy a plot you can follow I highly recommend picking up "Light in August" instead. The style is much easier to ...more...]]> 5053294 0394309782 3 1 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1253810650m/5053294.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5053294.Absalom_Absalom_ 4 0 false Fri Oct 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 10:18:27 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 10:12:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 373755 0679732187 9780679732181 4512 378 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174260301m/373755.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373755.Absalom_Absalom_ 2 1 false Thu Aug 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 18:31:07 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 14 19:21:50 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=373755