Little over halfway through Ulysses, the first 200 pages were

>>9140542
>reading 'le masturbatory form lmao' man

>>9140542
>there is nothing there. Stripped down, Ulysses is a tweet
Paulo Coelho was right all along.

>>9140542
put your eyes on the words, then on the sentences, until you've read the whole paragraph and then the page, and then do this until there are no more pages.

>>9140542
By now you should have noticed that each chapter is written in a very different style (or combination of styles), and that if you keep going, a different one will be along in a minute.

And yes, some parts are tedious until you realise what the author is getting at.

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>>9140556
There really should be an award for this level of plebeianism. You should win a Kardashian, or something.

>>9140591
I'll remain a pleb reading Dostoevsky.

>>9140586
Should I read Odyssey before Ulysses? Will it make any sense if I go in dry?

>>9141378
nice try

>>9140542
my man not even 100mg cannacaps could get me to enjoy this slog. this shit is boring as fuck. I don't give a fuck about bloom eating liver and going to random restaraunts just get to the fucking action scenes already where he has to fight Stephen for his wife

It doesn't. You fell for the meme. Don't forget to check out totally wonderful Gravity's Rainbow and infinite Jest!

http://blog.frankdelaney.com/2010/06/re-joyce-episode-0-introduction-to-james-joyces-ulysses.html

>>9141378
I didn't, and got on well enough. Anyhow, most westerners will have absorbed much of the Odyssey by indirect means. Everybody's picked up a compendium of mythology at some point in their childhood.

>>9141468
retard, he is trolling the thread is about James Joyce's novel.

>>9141575
Loth as I am to reply to someone who can't capitalize or punctuate, he was asking if it's necessary to read Homer before reading Joyce.

Do try to keep up. You might learn something.

>>9141812
That is like asking: should i know Irish history and have a deep understanding of Christianity before reading?

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What is a good version of this book for a first reading? I hear the Oxford 1922 text has a good introduction and notes.

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>>9141418
>totally wonderful Gravity's Rainbow
OP here, this is my to-read stack atm and check whats up next
How bad did I fuck up?

>>9141429
Thanks mate!

>>9141403
but the flavor of piss in the kidneys!

Now got to page 400 and its getting good again. Damn good, for the prose and the fun

You are in a dense spot, just push until you make it into the sirens, thank me later, brainlet

>>9141980
You fucked up starting with Ulysses, the more well read you are the more enjoyble it gets
Read GR after Ulysses