A helpful guide after reading Joyce, but like most how-to-read books it tells much I'm not interested in and leaves out many of the things I wondered about. ( )

When you need a 450-page book to understand an 800-page book, you are in deep water.

The less one leans on Stuart Gilbert books the better.Read the book out loud, JAAJ was a writer for the ear. all the exa-Jesuitical stuff is dandy, but soak your ears with Ulysses. Relish the spoken word. ( )

absolutely invaluable for understanding ULYSSES -- compares THE ODYSSEY book by book with ULYSSES. Read Joyce with Gilbert at your elbow.