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by beezlebroxxxxxx 753 days ago
If you're a fan of modernist literature or of literature as an at form, undoubtedly yes. If you're just interested in reading it because it is (justifiably, in my opinion) famous, then possibly.

It's a bit like reading and studying the Bible if you're not religious. Will you come out having read and studied one of the foundational texts in English literature, able to approach later texts with fresh eyes to the unending allusions it spawned? Yep. Will it be 'worth it', though, in a revelatory sense? That's up to you in the end.