Guardian Newspaper 1000 Novels discussion

In December we will be reading As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner for our Family & Self category - who's in?

I have a Kindle version, and am ready to go.
Not sure my heart is in it.

I quite liked "Light In August" but was underwhelmed by "The Sound & The Fury", so the jury is out for me on Faulkner
maybe this one will tip me one way or the other...
;o)

I'll start this next week. The only other Faulkner I've read was The Sound and the Fury, which I liked, so I hope I'll like this one too.

Darren wrote: "I quite liked "Light In August" but was underwhelmed by "The Sound & The Fury", so the jury is out for me on Faulkner
maybe this one will tip me one way or the other...
;o)"

I also enjoyed Light in August. But did not like The Sound and the Fury or As I Lay Dying :/
I'm planning to read The Reivers in 2022. I'll let you know what I think!

Finished reading this and I'm not too sure what to say. It's such an odd book but I liked it. I liked the use of the different narrators which gave us both a view into the weird minds of the Bundrens and the perspective of outsiders and how the Bundrens appeared to them. I felt Darl was the cleverest one and although he appeared mad when he was laughing about being sent to the asylum, he was perhaps laughing at the absurdity of the Bundrens and his good fortune at being able to escape them.

Anse is a really horrible father. He just seemed to be a harmless bumbling fool at the start but by the end his behaviour was despicable.

If anyone saw the excellent 1989 tv series ‘’Lonesome Dove,’’ adapted from Larry McMurtry’s 1986 Pulitzer Prize winning novel, you will remember Tommy Lee Jones’s arduous journey to return the body of his friend, Gus, played by Robert Duvall, to the little grove Gus treasured for burial. That part of Lonesome Dove was inspired by As I Lay Dying.