James Joyce

Looking at my copy of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, I'm reminded of a post I saw recently on LibraryThing Groups. A young member posted, asking for book recommendations suitable for their 13 years. Along with a lot of very interesting looking YA books, someone piped up to say that they had been reading James Joyces' Ulysses at 13.

I have to admit, that I'm still not brave enough to face it at 30. I read 1/10th of it for University English - literally 1/10th, as that was what copyright law allowed for the purposes of study guides. I suppose I shouldn't be too intimidated since I usually like stream of consciousness style writing, and that makes up a pretty hefty chunk, but something like that could take up a month of my life. Or even two. And given the number of books I'm hoping to get through in my lifetime, this one could cut the numbers considerably. I guess this one will just have to go into my "Hefty Tomes for the Europe Trip" list (more on this in a moment...)