[patrickscoleman]

I am currently reading Ulysses, so this was a nice surprise on hn. Great historical context. Thank you! After many years of false starts, I stopped trying to understand everything and just let the prose wash over me. And now I’m enjoying it.

“ I feel I need not worry so much about “misreading” Joyce. Every reading of Ulysses is a misreading, a faulty but revealing translation, a way of drawing the novel into new and perhaps unintended relationships. All that matters to me is finding a way to read the book that is interesting: that opens out instead of closing down.” [1]

[1] https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2022/12/07/misreading-ul...

[crims0n]

I am reading it now as well! I always felt like I wasn't ready, but last week I just decided to go for it. It's been on my list ever since finishing "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". The only other prep I did was reading Hamlet... which so far seems to have not been necessary (but am only up to Lestrygonians).

I actually have to credit Joseph Heller for the nudge to start, I had recently remembered a quote in Catch-22 that stuck with me:

"He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it."

[te_chris]

Yes this is the way! I finished it a few years back in the same way and am both smug and glad that I did. Exceptional writing.

[matrix87]

Keep pushing, it really starts to pick up after oxen in the sun

Circe definitely makes it worth it. Even though that chapter is huge, it feels very short