The only Joyce I've ever read is selections from Dubliners, which while not bad did not exactly compel me to read any more. And by all accounts Ulysses sounds pretentious and unappealing, so no.
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Carl Jung's thoughts on Ulysses by James Joyce
13/09/2011 04:28:21 PM
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As far as I can tell, the main reason to read it is so you can say
13/09/2011 05:38:17 PM
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The length has nothing to do with it
13/09/2011 05:57:27 PM
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Re: The length has nothing to do with it
13/09/2011 08:22:36 PM
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I tried the beginning of it once
14/09/2011 02:31:16 AM
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If you don't like it at about 75-100 pages in, you just won't like it. *NM*
15/09/2011 04:30:27 AM
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Never read it, never plan to.
14/09/2011 11:45:51 PM
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was enough to stop me reading more Joyce.
15/09/2011 07:59:22 AM
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It was precisely because I liked A Portrait of the Artist that I tried Ulysses.
15/09/2011 03:46:31 PM
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Actually this is one of the few things I've disagreed with Jung on.
21/09/2011 12:23:34 AM
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