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One of those "great reads" that really isn't. I wavered between giving it two or three stars, it did get a bit better toward the end. The first half of the book is virtually impossible to get through, and given the family drama story is not all that amazing, I'm really not convinced it was worth the work. If I were a quitter rather than a finisher, I probably wouldn't have made it past the first five pages.
To give Faulkner some credit, writing from the point of view of a severely disabled person is a daring task and he probably captured it as well as anyone with a pen. But therein lies the problem for the reader, as Maury/Benjamin/Benjy's point of view is very difficult to stick with. The fact that the first two points of view Faulkner chooses flash back and forth through time constantly and without warning makes following the non-action that much harder. Where Faulkner's prose is easiest to read, the story is usually at its most ponderous and plodding.
If you love dark stories about nothing with lots of scandal and families that are downright wicked to one another set in the Jim Crow South, why then you just might want to power through the harder first half and suss out the seeds of scandal and misbehavior where they are almost hidden, or stated more plainly in the second half. If that doesn't sound like your favorite slice of pie, then maybe pass this one by...