The first call was fantastic and I actually had dreams some Joycean dreams Monday night. Loving the book so far! I surprised myself by getting through the rest of the chapter in one sitting last night and feeling like I understood the vast majority of it, even if the sparknotes page I checked out afterwords actually gave me a little more idea what went down in the last few pages. So happy to be back in the folds of literary greatness thanks to Neil & The Alien!
Here's the sparknotes summary if anyone is like me and wants a little more background and clarity once you get though: http://m.sparknotes.com/lit/ulysses/section1.rhtml