umbreen 's review for:

Ulysses by James Joyce
5.0

I did it.

It took a quarter-long class that met for four hours a week, my professor's expertise, Blamires, Shmoop, and SparkNotes to help me through the novel, but I read every page.

This work is a masterpiece. Did I understand all of it? No. Do I feel like I will ever understand all of it? No. Do I feel like the hours upon hours of time I spent trying to figure this novel out were worth it? Yes.

If you want to read this on your own, you're going to need a lot of determination and stubbornness, but if you manage to finish, you will come out of it a changed reader.