I would encourage you to give Ulysses another go. I think there are a few chapters that are hard going at the start that put people off, but after about the thi

I would encourage you to give Ulysses another go. I think there are a few chapters that are hard going at the start that put people off, but after about the third or fourth chapter it is a bit more digestible. Especially the one where he's getting the carriage to the graveyard. Another thing I found helpful was to read an edition with lots of footnotes explaining various obscure passages. You can even look up bits you find confusing online. It's more work than reading your average novel I'll grant you, but after finishing it every other novel I've read really made me appreciate the richness of the language in Ulysses.