Read around 2006.

Don't buy this! Stop! The deal will give you 3 books for an expensive price of one book. You will only read or want to read "A Light In August." The other two books are really big flops compared to ALIA. The Sound and the Fury, I'm not sure how to interpret this book. I tried to reading As I Lay Dying. Could not get it! However, A Light in August is an American Masterpiece. The character Joe Christmas evolves before your eyes as an orphan under righteous-almighty pa and ma. He undergoes a transformation as he tries to reconcile his bi-racial identity. His mother was black and father white? We are not sure about his identity at all...The point the book is trying to make is, no matter what, you can't run from identity. Joe finds brief peace in a town, but he starts trouble when his friend botches a boot-legging business, etc. etc.

I tried with The Sound and the Fury but I really don't like stream of consciousness novels. I just found myself wandering and not following as closely as you need to with Faulkner's work. Lots of symbolism and certainly shows the decay of a family. Get your Cliff's notes out!

Faulkner is a very hard read as anyone knows from their first try. Without Oprah's Book Club I would have never been able to understand some of his interpretations.
Learning more about him also helps to see why he writes the way he does.

I actually only read As I Lay Dying, but there was no book here for that one alone. A challenging read, and rather a downer, but a very fascinating look at individual psychology, culture, and the perception of reality.

As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury were difficult to get through. I almost didn't read the Light in August. I'm glad I decided to try it. It is a really interesting story and a much easier writing style to read than the first two.

All three books were really interesting but the standout for me was The Sound and The Fury. Even though that was the hardest to follow and understand but once you got used to the format it told such a great story.

Tough to read, both grammatically and subject matter, but he's an American classic for a reason.

I still haven't finished Light in August....think I will in August perhaps.

Light in August is my favorite of the three but they are great.

I loved As I Lay Dying but the other two stories were not as memorable to me, although I do remember that I enjoyed them.

Oprah has great selling power.