Confusing but worth it.

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner is typical of the novel I dread being assigned to read in a class. It's confusing, told by multiple narrators, the characters are not particularly nice people, their goals are ones that I don't understand. That being said, those are exactly the reasons why I loved this novel. The confusion meant I had to pay attention, the multiple narrators made me read and re-read for simple comprehension. The fact that the characters were nothing like me made me struggle to understand their motivations. It was a short novel, but I'd recommend that if you decide to read it you really pay attention to what you're reading and how things progress and who the story is getting told by. Because with something like 14 narrators, things get hairy.