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I have never read Ulysses; I tried about ten years ago and got stuck about a third of the way through. I couldn't get into Don Quixote at all, though I know many people love it. I still have the end of the last of nine volumes of Pepys' diaries to finish -- the problem is that towards the end he's getting all important in the naval administration and he writes about that instead of about arguments with his wife, plays he saw, purges he took or the women whom he groped (the last in a mixture of French and Spanish).