Well, actually I finished it like two days ago. It was pretty good. Incredibly dense, though. It helped once I realized that all the philosophy (in the second book, the main character spends a lot of time trying to figure out…something, regarding the nature of feeling and emotions) was intentionally a bit muddled and contradictory.…

Actually very readable, for a high modernist classic. Short chapters help. If Ulysses’ chapters were only a few pages long, people would be way more into it. Even if you’re not really getting a chapter, you know it’s gonna end soon. It keeps you moving. It also covers really fascinating terrain. All, in some way,…