I also love Ulysses. I love James Joyce. His sense of Irish humor. But, as my college advisor warned me, don't read Finnegans Wake. I'm not going to say more.

I do have the oddest James Joyce anecdote: When I was in college and was so spellbound by Joyce, I had a summer job and would go over to the local public library during my lunch hour. A fellow was there often who looked exactly - exactly! - like the famous picture of Joyce with the tortoise shell glasses. One day he left for a bit, maybe to take a bathroom break, and I went over to see what he was reading. A really cheap detective novel. You never know.