It's beginning to seem like any place is a great place to start.
I have a feeling he was recommended to me recently based on some comments I made about reading Dostoyevsky's
The Brothers Karamazov. I mentioned that reading the book was quite a bit of work but you get out of it what you put into it. I feel like it's a book that keeps giving well after the reading is over. Reading reviews of Faulkner's work, it seems like the same principles apply.
So I'll need to make sure I schedule him such that I don't have too many consecutive challenging reads. I don't want to blunt my enjoyment because of a reading weariness/lethargy. It happens - like when I tried to read
Midnight's Children just at the completion stage of building my house and moving in. I could see that the book was impressive, but it wore me down because of bad timing.