I've never read [i]Ulysses[/i], but had to read "The Dead" (from [i]Dubliners[/i]) in HD and ended up reading the entire book for extra credit. I can understand Joyce's appeal to some, but it's not my thing. "Ulysses" by Alfred Lord Tennyson however, which I read for the same class, I tend to read a couple of times a year. "Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." Read entire text [url=https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/ulysses]here[/url].