Rock on! Faulkner is one of my favorite authors ever, and that's my favorite book by him. 
Good thing you lost the book the first time around, lol, because I feel like you need to read anything by Faulkner twice in order to get the most out of it; he likes just dropping you into the middle of incredibly complex and emotional situations in which nobody says anything straight out, and his writing style can be very hard to comprehend at first. So the first time around, you start out unsure how to even read the book and you're mystified as to who all these characters are and how they're related to each other and why they all hate everyone else, until some point close to the end where it all clicks and you're like whoa.
I have to agree. Faulkner is awesome, but he left me confused. Finally, I realized, "Wait... there's an appendix to the book. I'll read that." I read it, and I finally understood who everyone was. That wasn't until I finished the first chapter, though, so I need to re-read Benjy's story (Faulkner even stated that he probably should have written the appendix for the first version of his book; he thought it would have prevented people from getting as lost as they did).
It might be a good thing I lost the book, then.
I think I'll be reading John Steinbeck over the break; I've already read several of his books, and I might write my thesis on his work (though I'm still deciding). I loved
The Pastures of Heaven and
Of Mice and Men, and I have several I want to read.
