A review by scrooge3
Ulysses by James Joyce

1.0

I will grant that this is an influential book, but as a casual read it leaves much to be desired. Some of the book was reasonably coherent, but much of it felt like trying to read a foreign language by someone without complete fluency in that language. There were passages in Latin, Gaelic, and German, but most of the language was English, albeit full of strange syntax, spelling, and slang. The stream of consciousness was variously easy to downright unintelligible. Even when I read the Wikipedia summaries of each chapter, I sometimes wondered what was really going on.