What Faulkner have you read? ‘Absalom, Absalom’ is the great American prose tragedy.
After visiting Faulkner’s home (Rowan Oak) in Mississippi, I read “Old Man”.
A few years earlier, I had seen the Hallmark Hall Of Fame movie version of “old Man”.
Now I completely understand that a movie and the book will never be the same thing - but my problem was that I couldn’t get into to rhytm of reading Faulkner. His writing style just wan’t for me.
More than I ever cared to read. At least 2 in high school, 3 in college. My college professor did her dissertation on Faulkner. All of them forgettable. Flags in the Dust, The Town, Collected Stories were some of them. Mostly plodding, prodigious, regionally oriented prose that would bore a dullard to death. That said, to each his own.