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Absalom, Absalom!
by William Faulkner
Read for Love and Hate in the American South. I can see why this is considered one of, if not the, greatest American novel(s) of all time, but it just didn't do it for me. Faulkner knows the story he wants to tell, and tells it in the finest capabilities of the Southern tradition, weaving myth with fact until they are impossible to tell apart. That said, I can appreciate Absalom, Absalom! without loving it. It's dense, impossible at times to follow, and repetitive; the very things that make this novel phenomenal are those that I find least appealing.