Joyce is annoying and very difficult to read. I feel exactly as I do when I go into a smokey bar with a few intimates and the smoke is scratching my throat and the music is far too loud and there are people talking way too loud. Not just Ulysses either, but some of Dubliners was irritating.

I'm reading George Boole's "The Laws of Thought" right now and his writing is extremely dull and sesquipedalian.

Moby Dick was pretty hard to wade through in some parts. Too the Lighthouse was pretty boring, too. And The Bell Jar.

Possibly the ultimate bore was "Pierre; or, the ambiguities".