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Ulysses by James Joyce

4.0

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I would give it 5 except its readability is so difficult. Impossible at times. Your own mental journey in attempting to complete the full text. But the brilliance, the words, the insanity... leaves me dumbfounded for how he ever wrote it. Joyce is laughing at us mere mortals trying to piece together the full meaning of his metaphors and symbols sewn throughout the pages -- a labyrinth of cryptic messages that will leave you lost and defeated in this epic he has created. At a literary level, ignoring its likability and that I still haven't even scratched the surface of English Literature, I have little doubt it's most likely the best novel ever written in the English language.