/lit/ - Literature

I'm reading it now
Loved the Stephen Daedalus chapters (his SOC section at the beach was incredible) but Bloom's day is just putting me to sleep. As much as he seems like a fun character, I can't make myself give a shit about page after page of him saying "nice weather" to people on the street or small-talking with the guys in the carriage. Every time something interesting comes up (thoughts of Molly or his children) it's buried in so much SOC (which I don't find nearly as enjoyable as Stephen's, instead of beautiful language and literary allusions it just strikes me as inane ADD shit like "Getting kind of hungry. Hungry stray cat walking by by bye meow cat. Want to itch balls") that I have to reread multiple times just to discern what's actually happening.
Does it pay off further on? I don't mind a bit of a slog but it's a real brick of a novel and I'm only to the Aeolus chapter.

>>14776808
The Tunnel was the first book to made me feel like a smoothbrain.
The prose is some of the most genius shit I've ever read but after the thirtieth postmodernist monologue about 'the muse' I had to throw in the towel.
I know that the whole point is for it to be bloated and self-indulgent but I really think it could have been trimmed down by ~200 pages and wouldn't have lost anything.

>>14058128
I don't get it

Tfw tried to read Evola and Nietzsche and I couldn't understand anything. This has discouraged me from trying to read more