<p>^I liked "The Dead" but thought it stood out too much from the rest of the stories (in tone and style not just length).
Personally I liked the themes in "Eveline" and "The Boarding House" the most.</p>
<p>Wow, yeah I have the same goal. My family owns an Irish store, and every day I work there, Ulysses just sits there on the shelf.....taunting me, ahhh!!!</p>
<p>"This is about James Joyce's Ulysses, not Homer's Odyssey. A lot of people get them confused."</p>
<p>What's the difference?</p>
<p>dude i dont think like joyce is a godo writer i mean who writes that big books you should just say your point u know??? u should be frank and clear </p>
<p>i try to impliment that in my writing</p>
<p>Odyssey is a book written by Homer who was an ancient greek - and probably the most famous author from that time. Probably the first one, too.That book / poem was written AGES ago and is about a hero Odysseus (or Ulysses, as he was known in Roman myths) and his long journey home to Ithaca following the fall of Troy. And about what his wife and son do during that time. It's quite a nice read.</p>
<p>Ulysses is based on that book, but was written in the early 20th century. It is about Mr. Bloom, who spends a day (16th June 1904) in Dublin. There are many connections between both books, each chapter of Ulysses is based on one chapter (if you can call them that) of Odyssey.
But there are many different connections, too, mainly to other books by himself, Shakespeare, Wilde, ..</p>
<p>Some say, Ulysses is the second hardest book to read, followed only by FInnegans wake - Wikipedia:Ulysses totals 250,000 words from a vocabulary of 30,000 words.
Fact is, that it has influenced European literature like no other book, using so many different styles, ideas, symbols,.. </p>
<p>Joyce isn't a good writer? Well - he was not trying to be frank and clear. He was not writing a textbook. He was writing one of the best novels I have ever read, a case study of a life in a city, which I have grown to love just through a book..</p>
<p>PS: Overlook my grammar mistakes. I am not native.</p>
<p>I dislike overrated literature.</p>