Faulkner's Sanctuary, thoughts on it?

[SirJazzHands]

I'm reading it right now and I kinda like it more than As I Lay Dying, but not sure if I like it as much as The Sound and the Fury. This is my 3rd Faulkner novel, and I'm going to be reading Light in August after this, and I've heard great things about it, so maybe it'll be even better.
But Sanctuary in particular, has anyone read it and what did you think of it?

[mayneverhave]

Despite Faulkner's intentions, I would hold Sanctuary as one of second tier novels, right below Absalom, Absalom!, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Light in August, on the same level as Go Down, Moses.

[SirJazzHands]

Really though, when you think about it, what were his intentions? He may have written that introduction and claimed it was just for money, but..
All of his novels were for that purpose. I mean isn't that why he took up the Hollywood directing/screenwriting stuff in the first place? To get more money?
Look at Dostoevsky too. He writes great stuff but didn't he write them mostly to pay off debts from prison?

I've read that maybe Sanctuary isn't as "trashy" as Faulkner made it sound, and I'd like to think that's true. I'm about halfway through right now so I can't say if it's better or worse than The Sound and the Fury yet, but it certainly isn't just a cash-in, I don't think, not anymore than As I Lay Dying might have been, anyhow.

[Leabhar]

To get more money?
Look at Dostoevsky too. He writes great stuff but didn't he write them mostly to pay off debts from prison?

Well he was pretty poor for most of his life, but the debts weren't from prison. He took on his brothers debts after his brother died.