A review by dmfw
Ulysses by James Joyce

challenging funny mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

This is a book which I feel is more enjoyable to have read than to be reading. In retrospect it's possible to appreciate the structure, the intellectual games and the artful way the novel is put together but to be frank I didn't get out what I had to put in to finish this book and even though I don't think a book has to be enjoyable to be worthwhile necessarily, I'm afraid I am going to rank this one on the basis of how I felt whilst I was struggling through. Which was mainly exhausted, not moved and not especially enlightened.

It may well be the case that a second or third reading is needed to properly appreciate it in which case good luck to those who want to do that. I've had enough after one pass...