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so... i started this not nearly as hard as I expected but...

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so... i started this
not nearly as hard as I expected but...
i'm honestly just bored
just reading about bloom's love for eating innards

when does it get good
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congratulations, senpai, you fell for a meme
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It gets much more confusing, don't worry. ilymtaf
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it doesn't.
that's kind of the point.
but i would urge you to read on, if not for the personal reward of reading what is considered a masterpiece of modern literature, then for being in a truly small percentage of the reading population that has actually read this book back to front.

the book does have many interesting thoughts/sentences in it, further down half way, though.
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>>7335483
Drink a lot while reading it.
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It doesn't, why do you believe it was named after a character from a never ending Hell trip?
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>>7335483
It gets more weird but if you're not finding it pleasant to read already you're probably not going to like it
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>>7335483
But, muh literary references
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>>7335517
I am going to keep reading
I loved Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners, and I've found most things considered derivative from Ulysses brilliant

it just feels very dry so far...

>>7335513
>>7335553
I suppose I'm glad to hear this
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The chapters don't start getting insane until halfway through. I have mixed feelings about the book as a whole (it is obviously a titanic achievement) but a lot of the later chapters are wild. Circe is a personal fave.
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Every single page this book references something I just don't know a thing about and end up reading pages of wiki entries just to understand one or other sentence. So what do I need to do or read in order to better appreciate this book?
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>>7335483
You might not be well-read enough.

If you haven't read Homer and aren't familiar with the basics of Irish history and the tenets of Catholicism and Judaism, a lot will be lost on you.
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>>7336516
The entirety of the western canon.
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