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bergsteiger 's review for:
Ulysses
by James Joyce
Okay so it started out and I thought cool, this guy has some very unique imagery, a poem disguised as prose. And the stream of conciousness was pretty easy to follow, quite fun actually. But then there were pages upon pages with attempts at different forms like newspaper headlines and play scripts. And as things wound on I felt like I was listening to the Doors--I mean Riders on the Storm is cool the first minute or two, but 7 minutes later you are screaming for it to end. The brothel scene and post-brothel refuel towards the end, perhaps due to the drunkness of the participants, was particularly muddled and difficult to follow and here is where I admit I left religiously reading word for word and skimmed sections. That's right from about 550 to 780 something I pulled a Watt and touched down where I felt appropriate. And I will say the ending thoughts of Molly Bloom and her reminiscence of Leopold's proposal were as fun to read as the beginning, but I was a lost cause at that point. If you want to say you've read it then by all means pick it up, it does have some fun parts, but if you feel your time limited in the arena of reading please move on!