Joyce

[ex ponto]

Thank you for your suggestions, Poartrait was really nice novel!

I"m glad you like it, friend. Maybe you'll like "Dubliners" even better. I do, for example.

[blazeofglory]

I'd start with Ulysses. I've been reading it, now, for over twenty years. I read a few pages at a time, and I am always better for it.
It'll be easy to see why many people consider it the greatest achievement in writtten English.

I have tried to read the book and indeed I find it really hard to understand. First of all the most difficult part of him is the use of words and of course, he has a wide range of vocabularies.

Indeed his books are intellectual and he has kind of mastered vocabulary.

I do not know why he had used too many difficult words and it seems so often that wordiness is what determines the greatness of a writer. Could he be as popular as he is if he used simple words rather than very difficult ones, that is the question I am obsessed with.