Why is it so fucking boring?

>its prose is complex so it's better
every /lit/ midwit

>>24511148 (OP)
You’re not the intented audience, narcissistic zoomer

>>24511153
Stick to your gay Japanese comics, troon.

>>24511240
Could you describe how is it entertaining, from intended audience perspective?

>>24511148 (OP)
It was a one-time phenomenon to break open the ideas about how you're "allowed" to write, but now its innovations aren't really that interesting. It's like movies that came up with new filming techniques, they're of historical interest but not necessarily all-time greats.

you get out what you put in. you're probably a boring faggot.

>>24511148 (OP)
This 100%. Any man over 18 who reads anything other than Nude Magazines or Manhwas is an artsy fartsy closeted homosexual posturing as an intellectual for other homosexuals

>>24511345
More like the writers who followed Joyce were incapable of emulating him, so his stylistic innovations never took off.
If you look in the contemporary fiction section of a bookshop nowadays, it's as if Modernism has been erased from history.

>>24511303
Several chapters of Ulysses are full of bawdy, raucous humour. But why do you need to be "entertained" all the time? Understanding a complex novel takes effort. It's not like watching a Marvel movie.

>>24511148 (OP)
Just is. It was never intended to do anything but express Joyce's attempts at language games. If you dont care about that, dont read it. I only got a few chapters in and stopped. Life is too short to force myself to read early 20th century modernist slop

Ulysses is one if the most entertaining books I've ever read. I actually don't even understand how you can feel that it's boring. I don't even like reading all that much. I don't even finish something like 70% of the books I start. Yet, somehow I've read Ulysses multiple times. I'll sometimes read a random chapter while waiting for something I'm working on to load or render. I can't even imagine finding it boring.

>>24511405
>it's as if Modernism has been erased from history.
because all that word play and stylistic clownshow becomes bland and boring after very short exposure. It's like someone endlessly repeating variations of a good joke he once made, first people keep laughing out of politeness and then it's just cringe.

>>24511148 (OP)
just read the epic (pope or chapman) instead