Absalom, Absalom! Audiobook

" I cannot get enough Faulkner and this performance brought Absalom Absalom to new life. "

" Weak four stars, cause the ending was a little poor "

" The first page is almost indecipherable if I recall. The rest is no better. He seems to love using the non-word unsentient or something - keeps repeating that for dramatic effect. The melodrama itself is almost unbearable. Stick to the sound and fury. "

" Complex, confusing, and sometimes slow, but beautifully crafted and written, and deeply meaningful despite the claims of many critics. I could never have appreciated it fully without taking a class on it, however - there is just too much to get through, particularly in its style of narration. "

" One of my favorite books ever. "

" Inspired by Carla's re-reading of Steinbeck, I've decided to have a go at Faulkner once again. This book reaffirms my past opinion of Faulkner - the greatest American Novelist of all time. Absolutely love, love this book, including the very long (15 pages?) sentence. I'm sure in the future I will again read this book. "

" There's enough written on this novel. I would like to suggest to the world that if you are looking for a vast, massive challenge, this book is for you. The narrative, the language, the grammar, there is nothing that is not complex in this work. I recommend looking for a companion piece or a guide of some kind or else when you're done you'll just sit and weep and rub your head in vain attempts to understand what has just happened to you. Is it worth it all, oh good lord yes. "

" I'm too humble to comment on a masterpiece novel by a godsend writer. Just read it! "

" Just s'pose to add him yoor list...required reading in H.S. "

" incredible book - best faulkner - he's an amazing writer. "

" Hard to read, but worth it. Faulkner is a freaking genius. "

" Faulkner viewed this as his masterpiece, and I can see why. It's certainly not an easy read, but it's worth the effort. "

" Southern gothic verbosity! Thomas Sutpen creates his dynasty only to see it crumble due to his own promiscuities and excess of children. Is the issue race, incest or miscegenation--or all three? "

" as good as faulkner gets "

" My absolute favorite - in a few pages, he is able to write more about Southern history than volumes of historical treatise. The man is an absolute genius. "

" I never understood Faulkner, I should give him another shot. "

" I believe that Faulkner is the kind of author you can really get a lot out of, if you can just get past one major snag: his writing style. "

" I don't hate the South. I don't hate it. "

" This is one of my favorite Faulkner novels. "

" Absolutely amazing. I don't even have all the right words corralled to express how I feel about it. Faulkner is deserving of every iota of praise that's ever been sent in his direction. This is how literature ought to be. "

" Completely explains the Bush II presidency. "

" breathtakingly arresting. it took me six years to complete any attempt at reading this novel. probably twenty attempts. worth it through and through. "

" If your curious what happened to some of the characters from previous Faulkner novels ended up and how some came to be read this book. "

" A difficult, but immensely satisfying read. The ending is one of the most poignant, profound and satisfying endings I've ever read. The more I read Faulkner, the more I can't stop reading him. "

" I went through a Quentin Compson phase in college, before realizing that my family was Snopes all the way down, like the turtles that hold up the universe. Absalom, Absalom! is the book that showed me how much fun novelistic structure, in and of itself, can be. This one is shaped like a spiral. "

" As someone who is not American reading this book, I got a better idea of the trauma behind the American South's slavery past. Faulkner surely will award readers who understand his literary references.There were great plot twists and turns, but I felt that it could have ended earlier. "

" My absolute favorite - in a few pages, he is able to write more about Southern history than volumes of historical treatise. The man is an absolute genius. "

" History folding in on itself in the telling; two to four to two; A plantation dragged from the earth, and a man trying to outrun his own curse through progeny. The conflagration of the South. "

" Just s'pose to add him yoor list...required reading in H.S. "

" My favorite college English T.A. (positively) described Faulkner's stories as "melodramatic trash," and Absalom fits that description beautifully. I enjoyed it very much, and I wasn't as mystified as when I read S&tF or AILD, but that doesn't mean this was an easy read. "

" What do I think? Required fucking reading. Period. "

" Yeah. Still not a big fan of Faulkner. Sorry. "

" In the first few pages there is the phrase 'man-horse-demon.' "