Ick. Personally, I can't deal with Joyce. Stream of consciousness is challenge for my brain. I took a Modern British Lit class in college and had to read some Joyce and a few other novels that I just didn't "get". I think I remember reading that summer with the novels in one hand and the Cliff Notes in the other. Could have been that it was a 5 week course in which I had to read 5 novels, 4 plays, 250 pages of poetry, and write 4 essays. One of the hardest English courses I took.

I haven't heard of Ulysses being taught in our district; if it is, it is probaby on senior level. Same with Joyce and Yeats for that matter. My son was exposed to Yeats in college and fell in love with him.