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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a prequel to Ulysses, but neither it, nor Dubliners come even remotely close to Ulysses and especially Finnegan's Wake, in terms of messing with the fabric of language, so if you didn't like it, you probably made the right choice not delving further 😂
And while it might seem stream of consciousness and too random, Ulysses is very strongly structured, I didn't understand this myself even being a fan on Joyce.

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I realized this much later when I was reading a book on screenwriting that used Ulysses for examples of storytelling techniques, and the fact that Joyce is considered modernist, not post-, also started making a lot more sense, the novel works on both levels at once.
But in any case, it's more entertaining as puzzle, than as story. Reading Ulysses made even Carl Jung fall asleep — it's his work that introduced me to Joyce. In a way you're in good company😁
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