My first Faulkner experience turned out to be better than I thought it would be! It was definitely hard to read this book at times, both in terms of the literary techniques used and in terms of themes, but I was most struck by the rawness of the writing, and how everything is presented so uniquely in each chapter - if you didn't know that the same person wrote the entire novel, you'd think four people wrote four different chapters. Overall, I enjoyed it, just wasn't that blown away by it!