...and I must say, it's wonderful! After a brief hiatus from it for about a month, today I picked it back up and got through two episodes; I'm now at the beginning of Wandering Rocks (my edition doesn't label the episodes, but I've been using the online text as a guide).
I've been interested in Joyce's work ever since, about a year and a half ago, I, as a timid little ember of a reading enthusiast, picked up A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Little did I know what I was doing. After trudging through the beginning, I started picking up momentum, understanding it more and more as I went on, and by the end found myself craving more. Soon after finishing it, I went to the bookstore and bought Dubliners, and read it all in a short time span; but, still I wanted something more.
So, in August, I purchased Ulysses.
So far, I've been just going along with what I've read and trying my best to understand what's happening (and I'm doing a fairly decent job at it, I think) until I finish it. After finishing it, I'm thinking of doing a more thorough job of reading it, but for now, I'm just intent on finishing it.