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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Won't work. There is no way to make reading Ulysses easy.
There is an alternative though and that is...don't bother.
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Well, I found Ulysses to be a lot of fun when I finally managed to get into it.
But you have to be literate in a particular way to appreciate it, and you have to enjoy word games.
I consider Ulysses to be like In Search of Lost Time, or the Ring Cycle (opera, not Lord Of The). To some extent, you just have to hunker down and endure it the first time around. But once you've done it, once you've been through it once & have The Idea, it just gets better & better.
Whether that's true of Finnegan's Wake, I don't know of my own experience, since that one's still beyond me, and likely always will be. I do, however, know a guy who's always been ahead of me on such things, & he thinks it's a great book.
As for Ulysses, there's an App for that. Really. It's called "Ulysses "Unseen"". (Those quote marks are not a mistake.) There's also a podcast called, I think, "Frank Delany's Re:Joyce" which is a multi-year project to read through & comment on Ulysses in 5 minute takes.