John's Guide to Ulysses

I guess you must have heard of James Joyce’s famously impossible novel, Ulysses, or you wouldn’t be reading this. You may have had a go at the book but soon given up; probably in the third ‘episode’, which is quite challenging. You may have bought a guide to Ulysses and found that was quite hard to understand too! I have been reading and studying Ulysses on and off since I first discovered it in my parents’ bookcase at the age of 12. Later on, I looked at some of the guides to the book and ...