So the million dollar question is was it worth it? Well, in a word, YES. This is not an easy read (and indeed in some sections, not even enjoyable) but it is undeniably a masterpiece. It's dirty, yes. Vulgar, yes. Completely perplexing in parts, yes. BUT it's also beautiful, lyrical, funny a...
(Geneva, late 2012. Plainpalais market, a riotous display of phallic vegetables, ill-smelling cheese and trash literature. THE REVIEWER and his GIRLFRIEND walk through the stalls hand in hand. Polyglot conversations around them.)THE REVIEWER: Now here's a significant quote."My methods are new and ar...
The original plan was to read Homer’s The Odyssey, followed by Joyce’s Ulysses before Bloomsday 2012, but, time caught up with me and I was still with Odysseus having just landed back on Ithaca when June 16 rolled around… So next year, I am prepared. It’s impossible and obscene to review a book li...
Okay...so I read it. It was really slow going. I did listen to the free LibriVox recording at times, when I just couldn't muster the energy to focus. Honestly, listening to an audio-recording made the book more vivid and interesting. You could spend your whole life studying Ulysses. There are innume...
Fantastic.As always (and perhaps in honour of Joyce) I have some stream of consciousness style blah to say.The biggest problem with Ulysses is that it's too bloody long. Yes, Joyce's literary tricks are fun and impressive, but they go on and on and on and they start to drag. The first time I read it...
I really, really, really tried to like and finish this book, but I just couldn't do it. I read 20% of it, and still wasn't getting the point of the story. I feel like I was mostly reading incoherent thoughts that randomly jumped around, constantly. Maybe one day I will try to finish it, but I got 13...
I don't remember the exact date I finished Ulysses, so I'm not gonna put it in, but it was sometime in the past 6-8 weeks, so we'll say I read it September of 2011. I started it once before (my sophomore or junior year of college) and it has long held the place of the one book that I didn't finish....
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