Who has read Patrick White?

I read Voss and found it haunting. Much easier to follow than Eye of the Storm because White is so descriptive, and I am finding that there are so many characters introduced at once that it's taking me longer to get acquainted with them. Not even into Chapter 2 and I understand the title of the story and where we are going - but the storm has not yet begun. So far so good - looking forward.

"Mr. Rush, that smoldering, squishy-faced, classically proficient Australian actor"

It's interesting to read other people's thoughts on Patrick White and his work. As 'The Eye of the Storm' has yet be released in Britain, and my curiosity got the better of me, I picked up the book - my first venture into Patrick White's work and Australian literature.

It took me a little while to get into the style of writing. The stream of consciousness is such that there were many instances of run-on lines (it took some time to get over being irritated at missing punctuation and wanting to tidy up the text - or maybe I just had a wildly misprinted copy, lol!). Also, it took concentration to work out what was meant literally and what was implied via metaphor, as well keeping up with the focus shifting from one character to another. Whilst it sounds like a taxing read, it wasn't that labourious a task; I'd put the book down, and on returning to it, it would take me a page or two to get back into it, but soon I'd find the flow and get lost in the story once again.

I'm interested now to see how it has been adapted for film, especially with the likes of Judy Davies, Charlotte Rampling and Geoffrey Rush involved.