There is no denying that William Faulkner had immense talent. But Absalom, Absalom! is so dense. I struggled to get through it from the first page to the last. I often found myself venturing to SparkNotes in order to grasp the storyline at all. The sentences are so long and thick and frustrating. The story itself is so very dark and joyless. I just couldn't fall in love with this piece of literature.