Leopold Bloom wanders through Dublin, talking, observing, musing – and always remembering Molly, his passionate, wayward wife. Set in the shadow of Homer's Odyssey, internal thoughts give physical reality extra color and perspective. TALKIES AWARD-WINNER FOR BEST-ABRIDGED CLASSIC FICTION
Ulysses
James Joyce
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Study or forget it
Surely one of the greatest English language novels ever written - but unlike Moby Dick, V, and Middlemarch, you won't get very much out of the narrative. If you take your time and study the novel (take notes and read secondary material), you will be rewarded with a depth of literature, of profound meaning, texture and emotion. I studied it in an advanced Eng lit class and am embarrassed to say that I am still short one chapter. Wait a sec, how can this book be only 5 hours long? It has like a thousand pages?
I also read it twice!
Thanks New York Times, but I have read it twice, and now as a final attempt at understanding I'm going for the AudioBook. Surely one of the greatest books ever written, it does pay repeated reading. The book took me 6 months each time, hoping this will take less!