If a work like this had been made by anyone other than Faulkner

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If a work like this had been made by anyone other than Faulkner nobody would have wanted to publish it and people would assume it had been written by a middle schooler.

And indeed, the disjointed, clumsy approach taken here appears to be experimentation for experimentation's sake more than an attempt to write a coherent work; alliteration and stream of consciousness is great, but Faulkner took the idea and attempted to apply it in such a way that re-reading pages is frequent, if only to decipher the (usually boring) plot, which disappears over and over as the story jumps from scene to scene in a seemingly random order.

And it has become the bane of those forced to read it because "it's a classic." Sadly it has none of the entertaining quality shared by a work like Slaughterhouse-Five or The Hobbit, also classics and actually readable.