/lit/ - Literature

so is the interrambingdialog like 80% of the book or does it go away at some point? i mean fuck, i'll finish, but it's tedious.

Ül-ee-sez

I'm about 200 pages into the book and i absolutely love it. I have no problem understanding the hype about it. The quality of the prose itself is so magnificient. And the thoughts of Bloom and Stephen in the way they're presented seems to essentially human. They seem to capture the essence of introspection, the culmination of history into a dull present; or past-Dublin.

However i might be afraid that there's alot of the plot which goes unseen. To me i would have a hard time explaining what actually happens in the book. Why, beside the language and the content of the main characters reflections, makes this an interesting read. Am i missing something? Obviously beside the few references to Shopkeeper (Shakespeare) and... Robinson Crusoe.

Any good tips/clues from /lit/bros who's read it?

I bet you faggots actually like this pretentious piece of shit, don't you?

I've already posted this story on a picture plank but anyway

>be frenchfag
>it's the year after the baccalauréat
>I go to a literature preparatory school ("hypokhâgne")
>it's like a very selective GI boot camp for becoming a patrician
>only english classes are easy because I speak english

>teacher is pregnant woman
>her classes are boring and she's seen as
>she singles me out because she knows I don't care about her class
>because her baby is due, she brings some of her old books to give away to make room in her house
>I find pic related in the pile and take it home
>begin reading it
>it's a great experience
>pregnant teacher goes away to have her baby and qt replacement teacher arrives
>she is about 25, short hair and those eyes that glow and sparkle when she smiles
>everything is better and it's April-May

>we have to do presentations on books
>I've been reading Ulysses for seven months now, not even through with it but decide to present it anyway
>justify my choice to the class: even if I was done reading it it wouldn't matter, I couldn't present Ulysses thoroughly in twenty minutes even if I was Our Lord Bloom
>say the book is a monument and I didn't understand shit
>say it's a chore and a joy to read
>make class laugh when describing a passage where I tought they got drunk in a pub and I understood nothing for 250+ pages
>teacher asks lots of question, you can tell she is interested
>mfw I did it all for this qt short haired replacement teacher

Is Ulysses worth reading despite the difficulty associated with it?