Gawd, that book was sooo difficult to get through!
Virtually impenetrable. I'd sooner read Proust than Joyce. If you absolutely must read Ulysses, bring to it a stout rope and a three-legged stool.
I picked it up several times. Never got more than 40 pages in before the stilted prose just sent me away.
I tried reading some of his other stuff. Just as painful.
“Gawd, that book was sooo difficult to get through!”
The guy had an incredible vocabulary and huge breadth of knowledge. Makes it hard to understand what he’s talking about.