How many times did you have to read it before you "got it?"
>>25236961You know how the cinephiles say "how did you interpret it"? Very same thing for Joyce.
>>25236961I read it once. It such a piece of shit that I literally threw it in the trash. Joyce is bullshit, people only pretend to like him so they can appear to be intellectual.
Once,
>>25236961Two but I still re read it every year
Once.
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>>25236967>people only pretend to like Dark Souls to gain gamer cred for being a hardcore gamerHe's a difficult author, but there's a lot to gain from him once you get past the initial difficulty hurdle. Scylla and Charybdis is very insightful, Sirens is very one of the most beautiful chapters I've ever read in literature, Cyclops is funny as fuck, and I like the surrealism present in Circe. And that's just on my first go through, looking forward to a reread.
>>25236967your fomo is so obvious lmao. cope more fag.
>>25236967>so they can appear to be intellectualWell, at least there's no chance of you doing the same.
>>25236961Three for me.By the second reading I understood the trickier parts of the prose. But I didn't pick up all the little subplots until the third reading. Ulysses must be one of the most densely-plotted novels in existence. Every character, major and minor, has got something going on.
I read it once and then years later listened to the radio play while driving around. I had some gorgonzola and beef kidney sandwiches after.
>>25237119the personal, the historical, the allegorical and the anagogical. you need all four modes to traverse this book.
>>25236961½
>>25237155I see what you ate there
