Books - What are you reading?

Was for me

Depends... are you having trouble sleeping? If so, no.

I actually got into it by the end, but I think it helps if you have a decent amount of Irish/Catholic knowledge and a more than passing acquaintance with the story of the Odyssey.

Some of the chapters are definitely harder to follow than others, but I don't think it's a bad decision at all! If you start getting bogged down in it, just try to relax and let him carry you along on his chaotic currents.

It's one of those books where if you can bring yourself to follow the analysis on a site like Shmoop at the same time, that does help with identifying/recognising/remembering some of the stuff he's doing (the relationship to the oddysey is not all that obvious, for e.g.). But I read it one million years ago in my careless youth, before Shmoop and similar sites existed, and I still enjoyed it. It's not one of my favourite books, but I'm glad I read it.