Thanks to NetGalley and Blackstone Publishing for the digital copy of this audiobook. I am leaving this review voluntarily.

I read a lot, and my schooling didn't include many classics besides Romeo and Juliet and a Sherlock Holmes story in 9th grade. As an adult, I took college classes on Hemingway and Fitzgerald. I passed on Faulkner at the time. This was my opportunity to remedy that.

I feel like because I just couldn't get into this story that I'm not a literary intellectual, because I just don't understand WHY this is a classic. It's erratic, it's overwritten, it sounds like Faulkner is trying to hard to be great. Maybe it was groundbreaking at the time, I don't know. I mean, he won the Pulitzer, so maybe it's just me.