On the basis of reading this novel three more times over the past two weeks as I ran out of books at home; and after scribbling notes and systems of metaphors out on what is now a thick pile of loose sheets-now illegible-and after much caffeine abuse: I can safely say that this is the greatest novel...
I finished this a couple of days ago, flew to the other side of the continent, and am right now jetlagged. So, maybe not the best time to be trying to sit down and review Ulysses.Or maybe it's exactly the right time. Maybe when I"m tired and not thinking straight is the only time to sit down and let...
This review brought to you by Book Project 2015.Yeah, like Ulysses makes you kind of a dick.Except I do.I hated it the first time I read it. I found it pointlessly obtuse. Tthe opening few chapters are basically the worst thing ever - there's lots of pointless verbiage about Buck Mulligan and his sh...
Though I've read generous excerpts over the years I'd never quite gotten through this work cover to cover, though I might have nodded meaningfully whilst fibbing a few times. Actually, I blame the not so interesting Buck Mulligan.However, I finally finished reading my falling apart, badly yellowed c...
Clearly this novel has won, perhaps wrested the honor of the most difficult book I've yet read. Stream-of-consciousness has always been rough reading for me especially when you add more to the mix than predator / prey motivation. But, when you factor in the human element (why do I exist, what is m...
Ich habe mich getraut: Ulysses. Und ja, die Warnungen hatten ihre Berechtigung, es ist lang, es passiert wenig, oft hat man keine Ahnung, wovon der Autor gerade redet oder was das eine oder andere Symbol bedeutet, oder ob es überhaupt etwas bedeutet. Aber auch die positiven Stimmen hatten Recht: Es ...
"I am a part of all that I have met;Yet all experience is an arch wherethro'Gleams that untravell'd world whose margin fadesFor ever and forever when I move."Ulysses - by Lord Alfred TennysonTennyson's words may not have been the inspiration behind James Joyce's work, however, as all powerful poems ...
I'm holding off rating this one for now. I am proud to have finished it (combination of Kindle and Audio, sometimes at the same time), but I really feel like I only got about 20 percent of what was going on (and that actually might be optimistic). Based on quotes I've seen from Joyce himself, I don'...
Wow. I guess this is the sort of book that people either love or hate. In all honesty, I didn't know what to expect when I picked up Ulysses. I had just read "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" some months back and I thought Ulysses would follow a similar format. Well, Ulysses didn't even foll...
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