<p>I'm doing this for summer reading....
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I've already been at this for two months now and I'm only page 35. It's not the length; I have to read things three times over to understand it. And I don't understand much of it.
help....me............ advice ?
Joyce is too good of a writer for me.</p>
<p>Try Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man or other stream-of-consciousness books first. If you've already done that, then I guess that reading that slowly is just a normal part of reading a book like that.</p>
<p>You definitely have to read it slowly. Maybe even slower than you think is necessary, because that way, you won't have to read it over and over again.
There are some Ernest Hemingway books that are very stream-of-consciousness-esque and they kill me.. but I thought Ulysses was pretty interesting so it wasn't as bad.</p>
<p>I'm finding it extremely hard to believe that for summer reading, your teacher requires you to read Ulysses.</p>
<p>Your class is going to spend months on that book. Not a good book for high schoolers. We read the Odyssey last year and that alone took over a month.</p>
<p>Ever tried reading the Odyssey in Greek? lol.</p>
<p>^ No, and thank God. We had to read 4 books of the Odyssey each weekend and answer study questions, so I pretty much spent my Sundays for over a month just doing Odyssey stuff.</p>
<p>Try* Finnegan's Wake*. It's as funny as I'd been told it'd be =D</p>
<p>One of my goals is to someday read Ulysses and understand it all. I have a copy of Ulysses, unread, sitting on my shelf waiting oh so very patiently.</p>
<p>Clarification, guys: This is about James Joyce's Ulysses, not Homer's Odyssey. A lot of people get them confused.</p>
<p>Ulysses ain't got nothin' on Finnegans Wake.</p>
<p>We had to read Dubliners in 11th grade. I actually really liked it.</p>
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<p>I know that. I was just using the Odyssey as a comparison as to how long it would take to get through Ulysses.</p>
<p>Ulysses is a tough read without some help. It's been a long time since I read it in college, but I remember reading some explications with it was helpful if not downright necessary.</p>
<p>Ulysses is genius.</p>
<p>I never thought prose could be perfect until I read that book.</p>
<p>Except I'm so lacking knowledge that I can't catch every little allusion. SaveD, can you explain how you thought it was perfect? :( </p>
<p>kwu, my teacher gave us a few excerpts on Finnigan's Wake and I thought it was hilarious!!! It was like advanced Dr. Seuss. </p>
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I'm finding it extremely hard to believe that for summer reading, your teacher requires you to read Ulysses.
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I'm a rising senior, and this is a summer reading choice book (we're supposed to choose one). So we're not going over this in class. Sigh.</p>
<p>I see. I wish you good luck in your endeavors, because reading Ulysses for a summer reading assignment doesn't sound like an easy feat.</p>
<p>You might want to pick another book to read if it's not too late. I am in no way doubting your intelligence, but Ulysses is really hard to read with a teacher to help you and darn near impossible to really get without help.</p>
<p>There's an English teacher at my school who teaches a semester-long elective on Ulysses. It's 5 months on that one book. And it's widely accepted to be the most difficult humanities course we have.</p>
<p>What I find much more amusing and hilarious, and even doubtful is why you're spending time on a book of that length in summer. Forgive me if I offend you.</p>
<p>I'd be bored to death on anything that exceeds 300 ish pages, unless it's incredibly godstatus worthwhile. </p>
<p>Yeah but definitely try to read slowly and at your own pace, but even still some books are difficult and you should just give it up and read later in your life. I really can't be much help since the toughest book, and the only book in fact, I've read this entire year was 1984. Last year was some sci-fi's and random fiction; pokemon. I don't read much high level books since I usually tend to read incredibly fast to get over the required reading and go onto enjoyable activities, but seriously, if not yet executed, my only advice can be: slow down.</p>
<p>I read it - a annotated version, cos I didn't like looking up every translation.
a) Use Wikipedia, read the chapter summaries before the chapters :-)
b) Read at least a summary of Odyssee
c) Read the introduction to 'The picture of Dorian Gray@
d) Read Hamlet
e) Enjoy! Slowly!</p>
<p>sparknotes.</p>
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<p>I read that, too. I liked it a lot, especially "The Dead".</p>