Re: James Joyce and Ulysses
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Can anyone here say they've picked up Ulysses, read it, and was like "yeah, I get at least 50% of the literary allusions and know wtf is going on in this book?"
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No. Half the people who say they finished it are lying, the other half don't have a clue what anything means beyond what they are told by others (this includes university professors).
I got half way through and gave up. When I realized I hated picking it up and that I was only reading it because it's a "classic" I didn't see the point in going any further.
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This is a bit of a shift from a summer reading Harry Potter 7 and His Dark Materials series.
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I'm sure it is - why don't you read something in the middle?
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