My high school English teacher swore I'd love Ulysses by James Joyce

She said it was the pinnacle of modern literature and I just needed to stick with it past page 100. I got to page 87 and wanted to throw the book across the room, so I quit.

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grayw324mo ago

I mean, "stick with it past page 100" is basically the literary version of "just give it one more episode, it gets good eventually." I got to page 87 too, and honestly that felt like I'd already read three boring novels, not one. Maybe it's just me but I think Joyce was paid by the page to make sure nobody actually finishes the thing. My teacher probably thought she was opening a door to high art, but really she just gave me a lifelong excuse to avoid any book described as "the pinnacle of modern literature." I'd rather reread a cereal box than push through another 13 pages of that.

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troy_gibson434mo ago

Dang, that's rough. I just skipped the whole thing and read a summary online.

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