Part of why I liked the Inferno so much I do believe is that I read it about 6 months before I was going to Florence and the 3 or so days I was there I went Dante crazy. It was just a big thrill for me that I felt I needed to read all the Divine Comedy but lost interest halfway through Purgatory, then picked up Ulysses.
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Originally Posted by Glice
Portrait is a very different book to Ulysses. I always give portrait to the sorts of people who would hate Joyce because of Finnegans Wake or Ulysses and it's generally well-received.
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The reason I was reading it at the same time was because the copy of Ulysses I was reading, a previous reader had written a "How to read Ulysses" guide in the front blank pages and they suggested that if it was your first time reading Joyce that you read Portrait first, so I half-followed their anonymous advice and tried to read it at the same time, but graduated before I could make much headway into Ulysses and I had to return it.