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Originally Posted by Jyqm
!!! I'm sorry. Can I suggest that the reason you may not be enjoying it is because you're reading three other books at the same time? Ulysses really demands full attention, and book of annotations or at least a guide through the schemata never hurts the first time around. It's not a book that necessarily can or should be read the way you read most other books, and it can definitely be a very unenjoyable experience if you're not totally clear on what's going on in each chapter. How far along are you?
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Sorry if this has been posted already but I think Ulysses was intended to be read in 24 hours---ya know since the book takes place in a 24 hour period?
Of course you don't
have to read it in 24 hours but I think that was Joyce's metatextual intended purpose.
I'm reading
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
It's quite possibly the bloodiest, most violent novel I've ever read.