I'm not the best person to comment on Faulkner since I'm not from the south and I rarely use compound-complex sentence structure.

Besides, I found him unreadable after a few chapters of Light in August.

I have Light In August. Haven't read it yet, though. Of Faulkner I have read The Sound and the Fury, Sartoris, Intruder In the Dust and The Unvanquished (which I read earlier this year.) In addition to the previously named books, I also own Sartoris and The Reivers.

I disliked "As I Lay Dying". I disliked it in the extreme!

From Joel Achenbach's Why Things Are:

"When Faulkner left his [screenwriting] job at Warner Bros., someone went to clean out his desk. Inside was an empty bottle and a long roll of paper with some words written on it. The words said merely 'Boy meets girl', 500 times."

I absolutely loved As I Lay Dying, which is odd as I'm usually not a fan of stream-of-consciousness. What's your reasoning, Scott?

Probably because I had to read it, and then write an essay on it.

I don't know, it just wasn't for me.

I've read As I Lay Dying. I really liked it. But as I've indicated earlier, I like Faulkner.

The last book I read by Faulkner was Light In August and I thoroughly enjoyed it, too. But I guess that's because I'm weirder than most folks around here.

I think I'll soon be reading A Soldier's Pay. I haven't completely decided yet. I have other Faulkner books I haven't read.

As I Lay Dying was a bit confusing to me as he keeps switching narrators all the time and so it's hard to keep track of what's happening as the pov keeps changing.

Funny, I don't recall having that problem with it. I think I'm going to have to re-read it here soon.

It's the stream of consciousness narration.