Sorry still dont know how to bring the quotes into my replies! Ulysses is a master piece but at the same time I think it is unreadable without understanding something about the politics behind it and the stuff Joyce was trying to push the boundaries on. I certainly would never have understood it otherwise! Also, Joyce's opinions on women were derogatory in many ways.
Has anyone read Patricia Scanlan "City Girl" or "City Woman"? (Cant distinguish between them. Awful,awful books. Pamela, maybe its literary history doesnt mean I have to like it! The Da Vinci code had such potential but I found it to be all over the place and terribly written to boot. I kept waiting for it to improve, but to no avail.
Theres more awful books I m sure but I ve tried to erase them from my memory!