I recall one description of Ulysses as the most precisely structured literary work since The Divine Comedy.
I did not buy that either.
If whiny drunks moping and no plot are your thing then Useless... I mean Ulysses, is the book for you but to try put it up there with Dante? The guy who literally reshaped the entire world's view of what is the afterlife?
Who ever wrote that was smoking something stronger then mary-ja-wana.