The Sound and the Fury

The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
read: circa 2004
Time 100 Novels, Modern Library #6, Guardian 1000 Novels

Since I absolutely loved Absalom, Absalom! and The Sound and the Fury also features Quentin Compson, I expected to love it.  It's nearly universally considered Faulkner's masterpiece ... but I didn't get it.  Like As I Lay Dying, this book features chapters written in stream-of-consciousness, including a sizable fraction of the book written from the perspective of a mentally disabled person.  Maybe someday I will be able to appreciate that, but I didn't when I read it.