<p>^^nice post!</p>
<p>I think the book is masterful… just don’t care for the actual story :(</p>
<p>and feel the same way about Ulysses and find a whole lot of Joyce’s descriptions/language unpleasant and/or jarring.
But he is still a genius, regardless of my idiosyncratic and unsophisticated reaction.</p>
<p>Sound and the Fury is my least favorite of Faulker.</p>
<p>I’d be curious to know how many of the lists included Jane Eyre, which was the number 1 bestseller in the 19th century among English language books.</p>
<p>^^Several years ago, I heard a talk on 19th century best sellers and several of the authors are almost unknown these days. And now, of course, I can’t remember their names. I will try and find an article or abstract. This had to do with researching lending libraries.</p>
<p>I bet JHS knows their names.</p>
<p>Ann Radcliffe?</p>
<p>I hate Joyce, too, and I feel like a Philistine. I know that Ulysses is considered a masterpiece, and Joyce a genius, but can someone explain to this geek why these things are true?</p>
<p>^^new way of telling a tale?</p>
<p>stream of consciousness?</p>
<p>We aren’t in that bad of company. Let me try and find where Virginia Woolf calls him “vulgar” 
imho Woolf does it better</p>
<p>
The Ward list and the College Bound list both have Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and Pride and Prejudice. The Time list is books written in English *since 1923<a href=“added%20because%20the%20others%20didn’t%20have%20as%20many%20modern%20options”>/i</a>, and the American list has only American authors (added just because I came across the review book in a used book shop :)). Those 2 lists were what limited the intersection set ;).</p>
<p>Thank you, alh, for making me feel better! I’d love to read the quote.</p>
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<p>it’s possible to find more than one quote:)</p>
<p>Overall, I don’t care for male writers -
except Proust, who has imho a feminine perspective</p>
<p>The only Joyce I’ve ever managed to read was “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” some 35 years ago. The hellfire sermon was so violently disturbing that I actually put down the book, ran to the bathroom, and got sick. I’ve been afraid to try again!</p>
<p>I thought I didn’t like Faulkner after reading “Absalom, Absalom” in college. </p>
<p>Then when I saw “As I Lay Dying” on my son’s high school reading list a few years ago, I decided to give it a try. After being a little bit confused by the first few chapters, I was drawn into it and was fascinated and absolutely bowled over by its power. It knocked my socks off! :)</p>
<p>Since then I’ve read other Faulkner, but I still haven’t tried “The Sound and the Fury.” Now I think I will attempt to rise to the challenge!</p>
<p>People who want to ease into Faulkner might start with The Unvanquished or Intruder in the Dust or maybe Sartoris. You start to develop a taste for his writing, so that even some of his books with less appealing plots, like Light in August or Sanctuary, definitely have their rewards.</p>
<p>I love Faulkner’s Snopes books!!
Really excellent highbrow soap opera.</p>
<p>in this order:
Hamlet
Town
Mansion
:)</p>
<p>I almost suggested Ulysses and Portrait of an Artists… and the Russian novels (Anna K, Brothers K, etc.), and the magical realists of South America and Spain, and Madame Bovary, but I was on an American kick, thus I was lucky that the lists were biased that way!
(better lucky than smart)</p>
<p>Yes, Sound and the Fury is quite literary because of its unique and innovative, at the time, technique (interspersing of multiple perspectives/voices and different time periods, not unlike a movie) and, not unlike Huck Finn, a folkloric piece of Americana about the South using its dialects. It was also a psychologically realistic book, revealing the unique, personal and naive perspective of each voice. For these reasons it is a masterpiece. And an enduring classic. I must be weird, but I actually did enjoy reading it in 10th grade, and have looked at several times since, as it made a huge impression on me, naive teen that I was… It certainly added to my education on many levels!</p>
<p>I LOVE puzzles, and really loved this game, since I am more of a verbalist than a numerist.
Thanks for starting a fun thread, OP!!!</p>
<p>Yes, Proust, Virginia Woolf are good suggestions…
At some point, this becomes more of a guessing game about what the list categories were, as others have stated.</p>
<p>Ugh Faulkner. Sigh. Perhaps I’ll try again…</p>
<p>I’m sorry to post so much 
I get excited</p>
<p>What about Rebecca West? who I never even heard of till the last decade or so…</p>
<p>my favorites: There is no Conversation
& The Fountain Overflows which I think is one of the most interesting books I have ever read</p>
<p>right now I am slogging my way through The Pale King which I can see is “good” but not all that compelling to me personally… :(</p>
<p>Post away, alh! A lot of us love getting new ideas about things to read.</p>
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Has anyone read Jhumpa Lahiri? I have The Namesake on this year’s goals as it was one of S’s Intro Lit books last fall. </p>
<p>I’m thinking of adding a list just of books by women authors to the database, but I would have to look around a bit to find something.</p>
<p>I didn’t care for The Namesake that much. Of the Indian-American authors, who describe that experience, I prefer Bharati Mukherjee and my favorite is Desirable Daughters </p>
<p>I’m nothing but opinions … lol</p>
<p>Speaking of Indian women authors, Anita Desai’s “In Custody,” which was short listed for the Booker Prize, was an absolute gem. </p>
<p>I also loved “Arranged Marriages: Stories,” by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.</p>
<p>^^adding those to my upcoming reading list Thank you!</p>
<p>also need to say Trollope is a male writer I adore
and now I’m sitting on my fingers the rest of the day</p>