http://www.amazon.com/The-New-Bloomsday-Book-Through/dp/0415138582

^^^You know it's rough-sledding when there's a 300-page book on how to read another book.

I sorta fell off with Kool Keith outside of guest appearances and a few cuts here & there after Ultramagnetic.

I think I owned Lost In Space for a minute but it fell out of my possession in the hazy college days fairly quickly, someone else bumped Dr Octagon enough that I didn't feel the need to buy it.

I don't recommend reading Joyce to anyone I actually like though, in fact I'm really not sure I can say I read every page to full efforts of comprehension.

Like some of the technical whaling excursion chapters in Moby Dick, there may have been a bit of skimming going on.

I see it on the top of every literary list for last century & it just feels like something pompous literature bores say is the best without actually arriving at the idea through their own non-invested reading pleasure.

Like the end of a particularly brutal cross-country race, I was pained & miserable much of the time I was actually doing it but I guess there's some feeling of accomplishment after the fact.

I can't imagine trying to read a book like that now while having to go to work every day & relax/have fun in the interim, just too much of a chore.

The most I'll do Joyce-related right now would probably be that annual Ulysses/Bloomsday pub crawl if by some stroke of magic/destiny I happened to be in Dublin with time to kill during the time of its happening.