As I Lay Dying in Around the World in 80 Books

Apr 20, 2010 Sunflower rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: library, fiction-read-2010

The Bundrens must be one of the most unfortunate families in fiction, and terrible things happen to them while they try to transport their dead matriarch to her chosen burial place; followed as the story proceeds and the malodour increases by an increasing number of buzzards. Yet even the terrible events are taken in stride and treated with a minimum of fuss: these people are country pioneering types who aren't used to frills. Or maybe even the basics- as a health professional I found it hard to ...more

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Sep 06, 2013 Ted Dettweiler rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: abcdefgh

I think I might have started reading this once before years ago. Certainly I had attempted one Faulkner book. This time I really enjoyed it.

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Mar 18, 2010 Suzanne rated it did not like it

Shelves: classics, couldn-t-finish

My intellectual pride is wounded as I have no desire to finish this book. I bought the Spark Notes to help me get through it and I can appreciate that the multiple narrators concept was very novel in 1930. I understand the themes and characterizations. I found myself forcing myself to read this and I finally thought, "why?"

So, I'm quitting. I didn't like Faulkner's work in high school and I'm not too enamored of it now. Makes me wonder, though, what I'm missing since Faulkner is hailed by many a ...more

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