I think it's an amazing book.

It has very rich characters, great prose, lots of funny bits, a really interesting plot, an excellent sense of zeitgeist for the era, and is really, really long. IMHO it's the Great AMerican Novel. And yet it feels like it's not really a popular book anymore. Is this the case, and if so, why? Is the book too long? Is the era not interesting to a person now? Do people not like the Deep South? Is the book too old?

How do you personally feel about this book? How do you feel it compares to some other important American books that have been released, specifically Oscar Wao, Freedom, Moby Dick, The Great Gatsby and The Dollmaker? Are those books popular now, or not?