Wow Oblivion, go and show a completely different side of yourself why don't you?
To me Ulysses is still more sledgehammer than gentle giant; i.e. I haven't dared to pick it up yet because of some superstitious fear that I might not be equipped to appreciate it well enough. I have read parts of it though, but never the whole thing. Maybe it'll be something for the next summer break because I do want to read it and take my time reading it - not squeeze it in between my other reading. I've read some Pynchon and I'm not afraid of difficult or challenging reading, so maybe I should give it a try.
Speaking of Joyce, I have an extremely beautiful version of Finnegan's Wake, an on-page English-Dutch hardback in a slipcase, in a critically acclaimed translation (of course I always read English books in the original, but from a translator's point of view it is still interesting to compare). The problem is though, that I have an even bigger awe for Finnegan's Wake... One of the head teachers at the English Faculty of my Uni has spent ten years discussing it with a reading group of sharp minds and still feels he's missed a lot in the work.
Ah well. Cool post, thanks!