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If you like podcasts, I would suggest listening Frank Delaney's Re-Joyce [0], where he goes through Ulysses sentence by sentence and tries to explain what's goi

• lisper 8y ago
  > interrupted by Frank's sudden death That would seem to me to be the inevitable result of such an endeavor given the relative scales of Ulysses and a typical human life span. Even just trying to read Ulysses carries a certain non-negligible risk in this regard. I myself narrowly escaped a brush with catastrophe when assigned to read Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man when I was myself a young man (in high school). I thank God daily that I lived to warn others. ;-)
  • twoodfin 8y ago
    The podcast had slowly and then significantly ramped up its length, and certain sections of the novel are amenable to more rapid treatment than others. There was no reason to think he couldn’t have finished in another 10-15 years. He was halfway through “Wandering Rocks” a “mere” 6.75 years in, and I had been estimating he’d be at my favorite “Cyclops” by around now. :(
• sxcurry 8y ago
  I second this - a fascinating and well-researched deconstruction of Ulysses. And fun to listen to! Frank's death was very sad - I felt like he was a friend of mine. I had donated to his Paypal account several times to thank him for the podcast, and he always replied with a nice personal response.