Where to start with Joyce

[Jude Bloom]

Thanks for responses. I've read Joyce up to Finegan, I think Martin Amis said Finegan turns out to be a 900-page crossword clue whose answer is, "the." Still want to brave it some time.

I'm asking for a friend who wanted a recommendation... Is there no argument that you would start with Portrait cause it's the artist as a kid, then as an adolescent in Dubliners, & finally a young adult in Ulysses?