Is this the best place to start with Joyce?

im no joyce expert but it only seems logical to start with dubliners. thats what i read first. i skipped portrait though and im currently reading ulysses. im a pseud

FW out loud

>>9730095
much like Young Thug, Joyce's oeuvre is best approached reverse chronoligically

You can but there's plenty of things to read first that would better your enjoyment of it.

Hamlet, The Odyssey, Ready Player One, and The Iliad are pretty much the only required pre-Joyce works though so it shouldn't take long.

>>9730095
memeing aside, yes. Joyce grows dramatically as an artist throughout his career and each new work is a step towards more complex prose, narrative, and theme. Dubliners and Portrait pair well. Then take a break to read the Odyssey and Hamlet before attempting Ulysses. Finally, after pretending you understood Ulysses, wait a year, reread it, then repeat that cycle with FW.

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>>9731474
>Ready Player One

>>9731474
>>9731637
I've read the Odyssey and I generally know what happens during the lliad. The only thing i'm not super well-versed on is Hamlet, I should really read more Shakespeare in general.

http://www.wikihow.com/Read-Ulysses

>>9730095
Yes, but don't read the Penguin editions for Joyce. The Oxford or the Norton are way better.

>>9732636
Damn. I got the Penguin Edition. What's worse in it?

>>9732656
Poor notes and introductions. Necessary for Joyce.

>>9732634
>Episode 3: Elitist masculine monologue.
Jesus Christ

>>9732636
Is Everyman's edition good?

>>9732634
I hate this idea that Ulysses is a superironic work that mocks its characters by setting them in contrast to epic heroes. It reads as much more reverential and uplifting than that, to me.

>>9734303
can't it do both?
im pretty sure it does.
To deny the humor in the novel is really... i dunno, pretentious? It's like you only want to see what YOU want, not what's really there.

Everybody on this board are just different variations of Little Chandler

>>9730095
Right there