The Sound and the Fury

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1. morleytjMay 2025
   The Sound and the Fury is an incredible piece of art with a beautifully structured narrative, in my reading of it. Why do you say he's a terrible writer in your opinion? Who would you rank higher?
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2. pallas_athenaAug 2023
   Since his death, I've been reading (or re-reading) all his books.

   Rarely I have enjoyed so many books from a single author. I also think Blood Meridian is one the greatest books of all time.

   According to [1] "his list of great novels stops at four: Ulysses, The Brothers Karamazov, The Sound and the Fury and his favorite, Moby-Dick".

   They all are a good addition to this thread.

   [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140629023902/http://74.220.215...

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3. erokarJul 2022
   Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury
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4. plantsDec 2021
   Some of my favorite fiction books and short story collections in no particular order:

   1) Collected Fictions by Borges

   2) The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka

   3) The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

   4) Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

   5) 9 Stories by J.D. Salinger

   6) 60 Stories by Donald Barthelme

   7) 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

   8) The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

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5. auvrwFeb 2019
   these changed almost everything i think about:

   misc. Forrest Mims notebooks, the Python Tutorial, Practical C Programming

   first chapter of Sound and the Fury, snippets of Naked Lunch, wide swaths of Ulysses

   The Universe in a Nutshell, French's Special Relativity

   The Gamma Function, a graph theory text whose name i don't remember, baby Rudin

   Brain Structure and Its Origins, The Form Within

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6. IanChilesMay 2013
   I'd also add Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury - it's excellent, despite being a bit tough to understand
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