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Ulysses - a regular contender for "best book of all time", the topic of far too many a thesis and over 900 pages long. Should you spend valuable hours of your time reading this book, just so you can say you have? Is it really all it's cracked up to be?

Well, I'm going to read the thing (to raise $$ for MS research) and tell you all about it in this blog. Tune in regularly to see which of these quotes I think is true:

It is the book to which we are all indebted and from which none of us can escape - TS Eliot

Ulysses is unquestionably one of the supreme masterpieces, in any artistic form, of the twentieth century - The blurb on the back cover (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Edition)

Ulysses is an endlessly open book of utopian epiphanies - Declan Kiberd (wrote the intro in my copy)

...the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples - Virginia Woolf

Should be fun...starts on June 16
Cheers,
A

PS Thanks to Jo and Simon for lending me their copy so I didn't have to buy one