As I Lay Dying - by William Faulkner | Rating **

Amazon.com: As I Lay Dying (Vintage International): Books: William Faulkner

This piece is supposed to be one of the great literary works of our time, but it was hard for me to get my head around it. It was a check off the list book for me. It's about the Bundren clan going to bury their mother in the town that she was oringally from. Each chapter is written from someone else's point of view which makes the book interesting but sometimes hard to follow.
I did have to go back and reread certain areas because I wasn't sure if I was clear on the dialog. The book is so filled with Southern Fried Colloquialisms that it's sometimes hard to make sense of. It does leave a striking impression of how hard times were back in "the day", especially if you were god-fearing-poor-country-folk. This book is supposed to be "Faulkner Lite" so I can't imagine how complicated his other works are. I sort of enjoyed reading it, but received more of a feel of frustration at the difficult language, the sheer ignorance and stubborness of certain family members and the slow moving plot. But at least I can check it off of my list.