useful, but a bit too heavy on the Christian interpretations. What do you want from a Jesuit?

Very very helpful as a companion guide to Ulysses! I started out reading a few pages in Ulysses, then bouncing back to this to get a clearer perspective on it, which gradually happened less and less (tho' the opening paragraph for each chapter was really useful to set up what was going on/the stylistic significance), until by the end I didn't need it at all -- which I think means it did its job!

Co-reading with Ulysses. Strikes an excellent balance between annotation and accessibility. It's already helped clarify some things I'd missed the first time (partway) through Ulysses.

Mostly, he did a fabulous job of helping me understand the parts I had trouble with.
Though there were sometimes I found he got almost as confusing as Joyce.
Or maybe it's just that I was bored.
In the end, though, it's not his fault that the story behind Ulysses is so boring.