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Two books of mine that went missing a while ago turned up on my desk. Welcome to the Monkey House and Ulysses . Apparently I was on page 250 or 251 of Ulysses when I lost the book.
Anyway, I'm going to try to finish up Palm Sunday as soon as possible because I really< ...
... David Marr's mammoth bio of Patrick White, but you never know....
My Biggie for the year (after I finish James Joyce's Ulysses on Bloomsday 2010) is to start reading the Bible from beginning to end, and I'll be using James L. Kugel's How to Read the Bible to do it. I want to buy a nice ...
I agree with Sandog1 that Ulysses is more accessible than Finnegans Wake; it's not as poetic as FW. (I regard FW as basically a long poem.)
Whole books have been written about both of them, especially FW, specifically about how to understand them. As for comprehension level (#87), I ...
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I think Ulysses is the more accessible of the two. I've read it; I probably had about a 20% comprehension level.
... I will definitely give Finnegan's Wake a whirl some time. If I survive that then maybe, just maybe I'll take a stab at Ulysses .
In preparation for a third reading of James Joyce's Ulysses in January with a group, I'm reading Declan Kiberd's Ulysses And Us:The Art of Everyday Life in Joyce's Masterpiece. Far from being weighed down with an academic ball and chain, which a lot of Joyce criticism suffers from IMOHO, ...
... is fixed in the late era of British rule in Ireland, and is much more political than Joyce's major works (which are Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. Those 2 take a more world-wide view. Politics and religion are there, but mentioned in passing, as a part of life, but not dwelt upon In ...
... is fixed in the late era of British rule in Ireland, and is much more political than Joyce's major works (which are Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. Those 2 take a more world-wide view. Politics and religion are there, but mentioned in passing, as a part of life, but not dwelt upon In ...
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64. Hiroshima
65. Three Cups of Tea
66. Snow Crash
67. The Journey to the East
68. His Dark Materials
69. Ulysses (finish it)
70. The Dhammapada
71. I Think, Therefore Who Am I?
Added 12/29/09
72. Of Mice and Men
73. Confession
74. Miss Lonelyhearts
75. Wittg ...
... Favorites for 2009:
A Death in Venice
Right, ho, Jeeves
The White Tiger
The Complete Stories of Mark Twain
Ulysses
Johnny Got His Gun
Oryx and Crake
A Passage to India
Blink
Babylon by Bus
The Brothers Karamazov
... by Alan Brightman (non-fiction, U.S.A.)
-4. Fierce by Hannah Holborn (first story collection, Canadian)
-5. Ulysses (half of it) by James Joyce
-6. Smiles on Washington Square: A Love Story of Sorts by Raymond Federman (French-American)
-7. Roaming Kyrgyzstan: Beyond the Tour ...
... by Samuel Beckett
4. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
5. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
6. Ulysses (God help me) by James Joyce
7. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
8. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
9. Vanity Fair ...
... by C.S. Lewis, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe, or Ulysses by James Joyce.
Yes, I was thinking some of the books would be quite challenging. Not to say long. Imagine reading Ulysses at 16, with not a lot of culture behind you.
... Hippolytus
The Iliad, Homer
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
Ulysses , James Joyce
The Trial, Franz Kafka
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
The Boat, Nam Le
On Chesil Beach ...
I actually got through The Bible and Ulysses . I kinda knew how the former ends, and, I had mucho use of study guides and crutches on the latter.
I am also 3 strikes on One Hundred Years of Solitude.
My nemesis is The Histories, but I know I will make it through. I'm about 2 ...
The best way to read Ulysses is to have Homer's Odyssey at one elbow and Stuart Gilbert's James Joyce's Ulysses. A Study by Stuart Gilbert at the other -- read a book in Homer, then the corresponding chapter in Joyce, and then Gilbert's elucidations. It's actually rather fun and quite ...
394> You know why I abhorred Ulysses ? Personal, selfish reasons I might as well relay now as a melodramatic confessional; and perhaps it's the first step on my journey toward considering tackling U. again.
Ulysses publicly humiliated me. No book has ever induced such stress and insecurity ...
... H is available at http://leevilehto.net/?page_id=91
He is also working on the (second Finnish) translation of the Ulysses , possibly finished already but unpublished so far.
On the more conventional side of translation business, I am now reading The Plague in Finnish, translated ...
Well, I took it again, and got some different questions. Now I'm Ulysses , which is some improvement.
... my later years, I read Wild Palms aka "If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem." Haven't read Faulkner in a while, but I have read Ulysses , Flaubert, Balzac and Zola -- i.e. his influences.
I want to reread As I Lay Dying and Sanctuary as well as crack into the Snopes Trilogy and The Sound ...
... All The Words in the bathroom. Hey, you need reading material there too!!
I've been very slowly working my way through Ulysses for the past 3 or 4 years. I have it next to my bed with a dictionary, the Monarch Notes, and a copy of The Annotated Ulysses. Am I the only one who has agonized ...
Hmmm... How about The Sound and the Fury or Ulysses . If you like deciphering the narrative from different points of view, these titles will make your head explode.
... idea and worked a little miracle with it in The Sound and the Fury. (When his wife complained that she thought Ulysses was incomprehensible, he told her to "read it again.") If you read some of his poetry (if you can bear to), you can see that he was influenced there by Eliot. Just ...
... side? I think the Aeneid definitely counts. Ovid too. How about Bocaccio and Chaucer? Sophocles?
How about Ulysses and Omeros - both modern works really telling different stories but tying into the Odyssey? Or do we just count Kazantzakis' Odyssey? Christa Wolf's Kassan ...
... "gee, too bad you wasted your time reading this tripe, since you seem intelligent enough to have spent that time reading Ulysses instead."
Either Ulysses or Gravity's Rainbow. Also hoping to get to a 100.
... (#1):
Leopold Bloom an alcoholic!!?? What edition of the book did you read? (Not that there arenʻt alcoholics in Ulysses , but none of them hapens to be named Leopold Bloom. If I had to name a NON-alcoholic in 20th c. literature in English, Bloom would be the first name that came to ...
... I'll have to read it in more depth. Sounds like you are reading some challenging/long books (Life is a User's Manual, Ulysses , Fingerpost, so an inspiration to me to keep climbing the high mountains.
>133 If you need recommendations for African books, feel free to check out my Profil ...
... (of which it is the last story), and even perhaps Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man before getting stuck into Ulysses ? Dubliners is very accessible, and a great collection - in the sense of stories that have touchpoints and themes in common, in a way that seems often to be lacking ...
... by Gabriel Conroy about his marriage is an excellent introduction to James Joyce. I have long been tempted to try reading Ulysses by him. The accessibility of his writing in this story may bolster my courage. But I think I'm waiting for a Group Read on that one!
Book No. 82: The D ...
... Moscow to the end of the line
Franz Biberkopf in Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz
Leopold Bloom in Joyce's Ulysses
The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek
The entire (almost) cast of the Asterix books
Any one of the many boozers in William Trevor's short stories, ...
... Early Novels and Stories
Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works
Ulysses by James Joyce
Oski's Pediatrics: Principles and Practice (just in case I'm rescued and can resume my ...
I chose The Monkey Wrench Gang from PaperbackPirate.
As for a recommendation, I'd visit (or re-visit) Ulysses . I "read" huge chunks of it on audio, and that really helped.
... of the fingerpost being one of the high points on the way so far.
I visited Ireland only for one book, but I read Ulysses just before starting this journey. Enough is enough.
The Algebraist may seem a bit far fetched in the context of Reading Globally but having read other books ...
... to make room for Jane Eyre! WH must stay!
I don't think I'd count Joyce as a British writer, but I've not yet read Ulysses , so I don't really feel qualified to argue that point.
I would change The Waves to Orlando. In defense of this opinion, I cite Borges: "{Orlando is} Virginia ...
Wait a minute! Did I just see Ulysses on that list?!
Get Ulysses off that list Mac...NOW!!!
... said that made me feel better is that no one will understand everything written in these books. This is especially true for Ulysses and a few others he mentions. He says not to worry about it. That is just the way it is.
... kick off Twain and insert Lowry. You want high narrative and more allusions than any other 20th century novel excepting Ulysses , Under The Volcano is it. Rarely has a writer distilled so much despair and self-destruction into their writing that, ironically, their creation becomes inspirat ...
1001 Novels
I'm cheating a bit here - I'm using the 1001 list to pick up some books I've been meaning to read!
1. Ulysses by James Joyce
2. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
3. The Trial by Franz Kafka
4. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
5. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
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There are LEC's that I will never be able to get--Ulysses and Lysistrataa for example, and would like to have--the Picasso volume somewhat less so.
There are ones that I want in pristine copies that are somewhat out of my price range at the moment, but are targeted for the future: Life ...
... too difficult to differentiate preference for an individual work of those in my list (although, I'm fairly confident that Ulysses is my favorite book).
1. James Joyce
2. William Shakespeare
3. Dante Alighieri
4. Gustave Flaubert
5. Stephen Jay Gould
6. Emily Dickinson
7. Samuel Becket ...
... story; one of the high points of short fiction IMO. I think the only thing he wrote that compares is the last chapter of Ulysses (though I haven't braved Finnegan's Wake yet). I have found that reading Ulysses with a companion book helps, though I still don't catch everything; Bloomsday Bo ...
From the library of lunarcheck, I've selected Chess Story.
As for my library, uh I don't know. I thought Ulysses was a pretty cool read.
Great categories!
I'll be reading both Ulysses and Stranger in a Strange Land for my 101010 challenge this year, so I'll be back to see if you decide to read them and, if so, what you think!
... Before You Die)
Possibilities:
John Fowles - The Magus
Henri Stendhal - The Charterhouse of Parma
James Joyce - Ulysses
Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
... Children - on Mount TBR - shouldn't be long before I read it.
10 Moby Dick - nah, never gonna happen.
11 Ulysses - ditto
12 A Fine Balance - right at the top of Mount TBR but other books keep getting in the way. It'll definitely be read soonish.
13 Swallows and Amaz ...
... don't think I could maintain a similar profile to LT. It looks like a similar site.
Cushla - I am into Part Three of Ulysses . It is really difficult. I need to use the annotated edition for help as it is a deciphering exercise. Although his gift with prose is wonderful, the effort ...
... waiting on Amazon to deliver the final volume, but I know I'll love it
Love Medicine
The Man in the High Castle
Ulysses
The Great Gatsby - someone just mentioned this on the radio and I thought gosh how did I forget that?
Lots more I could mention - Balzac, Zola, Dostoevsky, Dic ...
... Hodges Figgis, the bookstore where the college has its books ordered and which is also mentioned in the early part of Ulysses , which I am currently reading for a seminar. YEP YEP
A Journal of the Plague Year by Defoe
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce
The Story of Lu ...
... an excuse to read all those cultural monoliths big enough to build a book fort out of--in keeping with the tradition set by Ulysses , Tomcat Murr, etc. But I also like the idea of low-hanging fruit, letting people engage as much as possible on whatever level time permits.
What I will confess ...
... an excuse to read all those cultural monoliths big enough to build a book fort out of--in keeping with the tradition set by Ulysses , Tomcat Murr, etc. But I also like the idea of low-hanging fruit, letting people engage as much as possible on whatever level time permits.
What I will confess ...
#214> IaaS, that's the opening of Chapter 4 of Ulysses .
I'm reading Canterbury Tales, Death of a Salesman, and Ulysses for banned Book Week. Going back to 999 next week.
... Guide to the Galaxy
Snow
Cat's Cradle
The Handmaid's Tale
The Big Sleep
Rabbit, Run
The Maltese Falcon
Ulysses
Lolita
Crime and Punishment
The Master and Margarita
The Secret History
Beloved
Song of Solomon
A couple weeks ago, I started reading Mrs. Dall ...
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Literary Snobs : At 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, and Beyond (Sep 26, 2009, 6:25pm)
... and Alexander McCall Smith as well as the other crap fiction I usually read. Then I found Library Thing and have read Ulysses , The Master and Margarita, The Life and Opinions of Tomcat Murr and several other wonderful books and am so very happy! My reading habits are improving and I ...
i'm trying to gird myself for Ulysses as a friend just gave me the Audible reading as a present. I need to find the usb cable for my mp3 player. I've never gotten far into the book so Mary thought that this might help me out.
It's a lecture series rather than a book, per se, but I've been ...
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71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
75 Ulysses - James Joyce (did not finish)
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
78 Germinal - Emile Zola (own but have not read)
80 Possession - AS Byatt. (own but have not ...
... choosing "Blume" as a protagonists name can never be accidental post Joyce.
(I've never come close to finishing Ulysses but a friend just gave me the unabridged audible version - if i can get the format switched to "burning cds" - i've not tried audible before)
... the more recent The Greatest Show on Earth)
Catch-22
1984
A Short History of Nearly Everything
I, Claudius
Ulysses
The Grapes of Wrath
With honourable mentions to The Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye, One Hundred Years of Solitude, At Swim Two Birds, To Kill a Mo ...
... Kswolff and Prosfilaes:
". . . history was far more changed by The Fountainhead and Gone with the Wind th(an by) Ulysses ." (#142)
Scrolling back I find I was replying to an earlier post by Prosfilaes, not the most recent one; it was to the above remark on the long term ...
... "artfulness", is fine. Of course, history was probably changed far more by The Fountainhead and Gone with the Wind then Ulysses .
"I mean, at one point in time Mazo de la Roche's JALNA series was hugely popular--yet nobody (except septuagenarians lapsing into senility) read that crap ...
... of people can read and enjoy them. Let George Soros and Bill Gates join together to spend every cent to hype Ulysses however you want, make sure every store that has a shelf of books has copies priced at $2.95, you still won't end up with as many copies sitting on people's shelves ...
I am in a graveyard in Ireland in Ulysses while I'm also moving some old graves in Portugul in The City and the Mountains by Eca de Queiros.
I read dead people.
I am in a graveyard in Ireland in Ulysses while I'm also moving some old graves in Portugul in The City and the Mountains by Eca de Queiros.
I read dead people.
... mark up.
I also keep a stack of mini-sticky notes nearby, so I can mark individual pages should I so desire. Here's what Ulysses looked like while reading: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickmatthews/3377186859/
... among novels, as I have set it for myself, is to read substantially in Henry James and George Eliot and to do my 'Ulysses Project.' After that I have Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, and Vladimir Nabokov to take on. The trouble is, I may not want to do all that entirely in ...
... could afford a decent creative writing class?
I've read The Cantos, Gravity's Rainbow, In Search of Lost Time, and Ulysses -- not as a boast, there's a punchline ahead ... wait for it ...
But I could barely finish Chapter 1 of Angels and Demons
... took me about two weeks. These days I read equally fast in Bulgarian and English and as long as the book is not Ulysses or something similar I have no issues with it. So I suspect that if you read 2 books in French, the third one will be going much faster than you expect.
Edit: ...
... I can imagine myself writing. Now Harry Potter, yeah I can. Cliff, do you imagine yourself capable of having written Ulysses ? There are so many writers who write in a way that makes me put down the book and say "I could never in a million years have thought of saying that - WOW" (e.g., Jo ...
...whereas I would've chosen "Macbeth" or ULYSSES or "Citizen Kane".
Now I know why I haven't read Hornby in years...
... - I haven't read The Time Traveler's Wife yet so I couldn't comment - but I definitely agree with Virginia Woolf on the Ulysses thing. I read about 100 pages or so for uni before I gave up. I had no idea what was happening, except that Molly Bloom cooked kidneys, and Stephen Dedalus was ...
... is what Virginia Woolf wrote to Lytton Strachey in 1922, after reading the first six chapters of James Joyce's Ulysses . And this is exactly how I feel right now, while trying very hard not to just give it up and go to sleep
... is what Virginia Woolf wrote to Lytton Strachey in 1922, after reading the first six chapters of James Joyce's Ulysses . And this is exactly how I feel right now, while trying very hard not to just give it up and go to sleep
... is what Virginia Woolf wrote to Lytton Strachey in 1922, after reading the first six chapters of James Joyce's Ulysses . And this is exactly how I feel right now, while trying very hard not to just give it up and go to sleep.
... southeast Asian Buddhism is. As to a lesser extent, Christianity, especially in its Catholic form is derided in Joyceʻs Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, and as Islam is in Rushdieʻs The Satanic Verses.
The Orwell of Burmese Days (if you compare his stance to theirs), however, ...
... books you've read this year are fascinating. Can't wait to read about the rest of your year! Also, congrats on finishing Ulysses ... another thing I've never managed.
It was a while ago, but about your crush on the straight girl, just want to say I've been there. Although, like your advisor, ...
I think Ulysses , or Master and Margarita are a tad better than Harry Potter.
... since it was published in about 1995, but still relatively modern) Irish literature. He also has a new book out called Ulysses and Us , which is meant to be not so much about Ulysses as the sort of modern relationship with Irish reading.
The Gonne-Yeats Letters 1893-1938 (no touchstone, ...
... Hopscotch, so I ran out and got a copy. It's much more plot-driven than most of what I've been reading this summer (Ulysses , I'm looking at you), which makes for a relaxing change of pace.
... not a literary joke per se, so apologies in advance, Medellia, for perhaps misusing your cool thread. But!...since Ulysses is so near and dear to so many of our hearts here, I felt this joke was perfectly appropriate for this thread regardless...
The Penis Study
The America ...
... it is worth noting that very, very few of these books were, in fact, leather-bound; the most valuable LEC ever is the Ulysses , which justifies its price tag by the fact it has original soft ground etchings by Matisse, is signed by Matisse, and the most valuable of all of them were also ...
... for a Dream by Hubert Selby, Jr.
7. Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
8. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
9. Ulysses by James Joyce
10. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
... certainly no hero, but he is fascinating.
I want to read Joyce. I want to read another Irishman haha. I want to read Ulysses but I know right now that isn't feasible. I'm working through Madame Bovary though, which is rather long, but it's also terribly easy reading. All 19th century ...
Ulysses isn't too bad, you just have to read the last chapter all in one go. I'm up to 170 odd and would be happy to get to 800ish. There are books on there I don't want to touch so I'll be combining both lists and presumably the one that comes out in 2010 and so on. It's a good way to make ...
Heard in an echo from said Naughty Chamber:
Having read Ulysses , it seemed written specifically to be unreadable, if you like that sort of thing. (I owe my discovery of The Anteroom to that process as they were published around the same time, though, so it definitely ended up being fruitful). ...
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I'm beginning to think Ulysses should be read in Dublin. I started the book but fltered halfway through when I was in college, but sailed through it in 5 days in Dublin (and I was working full time while there).
... to be honest, but I've heard a lot of horror stories about how dense GR is. Density doesn't frighten me (ie I adore Ulysses ), but I want to make sure I go about this the right way. Any tips before I make my first foray in a couple of days? (have to finish a Wittgenstein's Mistress re-re ...
... or even into my winter overcoat pocket.
>16 destinyhascheatedme... That made me laugh. Must remember not to read Ulysses in bed. (Having another look at it at the moment.)
... my temper - shame upon shame - my wife will attest). Have never used it publicly before in LT - except when discussing Ulysses (nor do I plan on doing so in the future) that is, unless this Mr. Matt Allen, worst-author-ever, decides to write a sequel, Fu$%ing Dracula , God forbid.
S ...
#112 / 113 yes I agree, the one book in 1 category, two in the next sounds ideal ... reckon I'll have ulysses in category one all on its lonesome, been trying to / meaning to read that bohemoth for a looong time!
just got to think up my next categories and I'll be signing up calm. I might add ...
I would think that Ulysses , having the 'reputation' it has, is abandoned quite often even before starting it.
I finished it on the second try, after about 20 years had passed since the first one. And back then I think I quit after 30 pages or so.
Other books abandoned? Hmmm, I think most of ...
I would guess Ulysses is way up there on the abandoned list. I'm sure a lot of people get to Stephen Dedelus musing at the beach and then throw their books across the room.
... as much as create a genre stew. Gravity's Rainbow is every genre in much the same way as Gargantua and Pantagruel and Ulysses And Pynchon is too much of an anarchist and nonconformist and genius to let genre conventions hold him back. Dude's the Jimi Hendrix of literature. The Crying ...
... am finishing World War Z - zombie fiction meets Studs Terkel and The Parent Test, as well as continuing to plow through Ulysses , though I've really slowed down there. . .
... Communism of the Cold war era: revisionism.
I love Joyceʻs 2 long major works, but found the titles to be mediocre. Ulysses , by the way, is an example of one of the last uses of the Roman rather than Greek name for someone in Greek legend/mythology. I have always thought of the Homeric ...
Good fortune to you on your journey through Joyce. I would dispense with Stuart Gilbert's companion volume to ULYSSES , I found it more confusing than helpful. Read Ellmann's peerless bio and Peter Costello's JAMES JOYCE: THE YEARS OF GROWTH and you should be fine...
"Hall of Horn" *
*pseudo-Old English phrase used in Joyceʻs
Ulysses
The Tale of Genji
Don Quixote
Tristam Shandy
Middlemarch
War and Peace
Ulysses
....'wishing you a loonnngg vacation!
... plan
foundation and empire
the stranger
at the moment.
maybe more.
I mean technically I'm still reading Ulysses (i started that 9 years ago.) but I'm not counting that.
this is what I'm thinking so far.
expect resistance
ubik
weapon x
akira 4
dune messiah ...
It's funny, when you say you've read Ulysses , the snobs say "Oh, only once?"
I admit I only scrounged and retained about 15% of THAT monster. I'll wait about 5-10 years, and do it again.
... way through a few years ago, but I'll get back to it one day soon" pile.
I don't consider it (or the others, including Ulysses ) in this pile abandoned, I just haven't made time for the second half as yet. An abandoned book to me is one that I have consciously decided to not continue with (fo ...
>10, 16
Ulysses is a writer's book, not a reader's book. Immerse yourself in it. Study it. Read some analyses and good critical works, ahead of time. It is the best one-day story of all time. And remember, Joyce's intent was to goof on College Professors, for eons to come. It worked. The ...
... it very much. The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana was not as good as the other books by Eco I read.
I have started Ulysses a couple of time, but I was so convinced from the start that I wouldn't be able to read it, I guess it doesn't really count. Some day I must try it in earnest.
... to Henry James' books:"Once you put them down, you can't pick them back up." In any event, I found myself unable to read Ulysses or Gravity's Rainbow despite several attempts. I did not quit them in disgust; I simply found them unreadable.
Although I have never tried, I hear that Ulysses by James Joyce takes multiple attempts.
... to appreciate. Many of these I have gone back to recently and found why they deserve their status.
To wit, I read Ulysses back then--rather, I started it but never got past the Aeolus episode. Five years ago while I was in Dublin on a project, I reread the book after seeing the Joyce ...
... really feel less well read, if I had never read a Canto of Pound, and even if I had not read (aloud at that!) all of Ulysses . I love Ulysses, undergo spots of admiration for parts of "The Cantos", but donʻt really see them as part of what the title is talking about.
Ulysses by James Joyce
... and Margarita
Ignatius Reilly from A Confederacy of Dunces
Yossarian in Catch 22
Oh yeah, Molly Bloom in Ulysses , definitely. That last chapter was wild, sublime, surreal.
I'm trudging my way through Ulysses after telling a friend that I'd read it this summer (he gave me a copy as a gift for Christmas and basically wants someone he can talk with about his favorite book). I'm enjoying it, but at the same time I can only manage ten or so pages at a time. There's such ...
... Mason" novels by Erle Stanley Gardner
Gypo Nolan in The Informer by Liam OʻFlaherty
Molly Tweedy Bloom in Ulysses (Joyce);
Mutt and Jute; and Shem and Shaun in Finnegans Wake (Joyce)
*Phillipsʻs and Slaterʻs 1st names are not given in the book (ca. 1960) as I ...
The Ulysses interests me--why is it so huge? Granted it is a long (ish) novel, but 6 inches thick? I think if a book is going to turn out that size, they should split it over multiple volumes.
Interestingly, this was a standard procedure for long (ish) works published by the Limited Editions ...
Son, I read Gargantua and Pantagruel when your mother was a gleam in her daddy's eye. I've not read Ulysses or any Theroux or Burgess so I can't speak to them, and yes, having read The Crying of Lot 49 see no further need of Pynchon. I did spend a thoroughly grueling week with White Noise ...
... towering intellects like to clutter their books with.
Then you probably wouldn't like Gargantua and Pantagruel, Ulysses , or anything by Thomas Pynchon, Alexander Theroux, or Anthony Burgess either. Stay away!
I hear James Patterson has a new book out.
... European backwater that uses metaphors based in a vile, oppressive "spiritual" protection racket's theives' cant? (That's Ulysses , to the overbred.)
He's an idiot, and his PhD (if granted) isn't worth the match to burn it.
Hmmmf.
80 books over two years is less than one book per week. Piece of cake. (Unless we're talking Ulysses , Remembrance of Things Past and War and Peace!
... of the Mind, Herman Melville's Selected Poems, Captivity Narrative of Hannah Duston and in case I win the lottery, Ulysses . The people working at the press are very helpful and welcoming. Andrew Hoyem first took me on a quick tour to see the galley proofs of their upcoming Mrs. Bridge. ...
...
I don't know what's holding me back. I've done War and Peace. I've bulled through Don Quixote. I got through Ulysses . Hell, I've even read The Bible.
It's a fascinating subject, it is just a slog. I'll get it done some day...
I was a Ulysses hater. My position has now softened to, "It's not my cup of tea", as my dear departed grandmother would say.
I will even open myself to the possibility of giving Ulysses another try sometime. It has been almost 20 years since my last attempt. Perhaps in 20 more years I will be ...
#33: I concur. Fantastic idea.
Back on track, I love Ulysses ! Bring it on haters!
Ulysses -- I have started it several times, and the last time got to the beach scene. I will probably try again.
Gravity's Rainbow -- I wanted to like it. I really did.
In Search of Lost Time -- That was my summer project last summer. I got through the first, and half of the second ...
I finished Ulysses , knocked out Falling Man and am know onto that unbelievably poignant and disturbing peace movement classic, Johnny Got His Gun.
I finally finished Ulysses . I "read" a very large portion using an audio version (the Recorded Books edition). That made it quite palatable.
I took a break from classics and knocked off Falling Man. I'm now reading that poignant, disturbing peace movement classic Johnny Got His Gun. I' ...
I just finished Ulysses (for the first time - it is always important to clarify when talking about that monster) and then Falling Man.
I am now reading that horrific anti-war classic Johnny get your gun.
... affected by 9/11. The prose is dirt-simple basic. The themes are very, very sophisticated. I guess it it is like a short Ulysses , without the obscure words!
Oh, BTW, I'm now reading Johnny Got His Gun. This is one unbelievably poignant, disturbing book.
... and Dickens.
Fool and King Lear.
Pride and Prejudice and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
I take it Ulysses and the odyssey doesn't count.
... by Marcel Proust
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Capital Vol. 1 by Karl Marx
Ulysses by James Joyce
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
History of Sexuality (all three volumes?) by Michel Foucault
26 ...
>92: I read Ulysses earlier this year. I liked the book a bit less than you did...probably because I understood less. :-)
Congrats - I am always impressed by anyone who can finish Ulysses !!
28. ulysses
Honestly, I don't think I'll be able to add anything new or interesting to the dialogue, so I'll refrain from my usual lopsided commentary. Instead, let me just say: I LOVE this book. I also LOVE being "done!!!!" I plan to take a long hiatus from all Joyce-related paraphernalia, at ...
Finished Ulysses . My first time through. I'm about halfway through Falling Man.
I finally, finally, finally, finally finished Ulysses .
I'm halfway through Falling Man. Good so far. Delillo's vocabulary and prose is simple.
His themes are far from simple, however.
... a non-fiction about visiting author's homes and other sites pertinent to literature, like the bar Joyce wrote of in Ulysses .
Still working on The Stories of John Cheever and I've quickly become a fan.
... intellectual. Still, the book is enjoyable enough to keep me with it. I say this because I just can't imagine undertaking Ulysses in any form.
... like work, and I probably understood 30% of it, but it was actually a lot of fun.
Oh, now that I'm finished with that Ulysses journey (for the time being), I'm listening to Falling Man.
16. Ulysses
I did it! 'With a lot of help from the 1995 Recorded Books version. I looked at a few lines of that last chapter and my eyes glazed over. The audio was so much more palatable. I probably nailed about 30% comprehension on this bad-boy.
Now I can brag about reading Ulysses. R ...
... changed things that much. we're less wary of the executive branch, but i can guarantee you no one trusts the congress.
Ulysses
the scotus ruling on this book opened the way for all sorts of unmentionables (porn). by ruling it was "not obscene," it opened the way for all kinds of porn, so ...
Time to break up the thread again...it's getting a bit unwieldy.
Part 1 can be found here .
Part 2 can be found here .
Part 3 can be found Storeetllr in Audiobooks : What Are You Listening to Now? Part 5 (Jun 15, 2009, 9:29pm)
#119 Oooohhh, Sandydog! What a splendid idea! I've been wanting to tackle Ulysses for awhile now but just haven't had the courage (or willpower), but it never occurred to me to try it on audio! Thanks!
I just finished Ulysses . It would have been impossible to get through it without the Recorded Books (1995) version.
... Snobs list I am informed that June 17 (my sister's birthday) is "Bloomsday" being the day of the year commemorated in Ulysses .
Obviously we must plan a big event here at the Salon Littéraire. Where's the Naughty Hottie? We need a theme, catering, what else???
... are you going to commemorate Bloomsday? Let us celebrate that great fat -- or stately, plump, if ya like -- Modernist tome Ulysses Pour a 40 on the corner or re-enact Molly Bloom's soliloquy.
Like St Patrick's Day but heavily footnoted.
#86: Congratulations! I do not think I have ever attempted Ulysses , but I stand in awe of those who have.
Ulysses - James Joyce - "Yes"
... the United States. Indeed, Paul Bowles was referred to as an American writer for his entire career, and I have yet to hear Ulysses referred to as anything but an Irish novel, regardless of where Joyce was when it was written. (Sorry for the digression)
I do agree, however, that if we're ...
... gone places beyond my wildest imaginings. Who'd of ever thought that sane people would actually purposely set out to read Ulysses ? It was sort of a jest, actually, and now look at!
And it's been (this is difficult to address) very healing for me, actually. Allow me to take a moment and ...
... list. Several of your reviews inspired me to add books to my wishlist.
Perhaps I, too, will get around to reading Ulysses someday. I haven't had the guts to try, yet. I did, however, read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. How do the two compare? Is Ulysses more difficult to " ...
... I owe you a book from my library!
I'll have to check out Ah-Choo, of course after I finish my my current endeavor, Ulysses .
From Catgwinn, I choose HELEN AND TEACHER: THE STORY OF HELEN KELLER AND ANNE SULLIVAN MACY.
... too and really enjoyed it. Those extra scenes were a fun surprise.
#63, Sandydog, how are you making out with Ulysses ? Has it gotten any "sportier"? ;-)
Ulysses is a monumental work. Preparation, attitude, and recognizing the possibility of failure are requisite to mounting an attack on this monument. The critical element for me was being able to immerse myself in the work through the audio CD.
Another aid was Joyce's Ulysses for Everyone. Th ...
...
So tell me, Judith, how are you getting on with The Life and Opinions of The Tomcat Murr? Did you make it to the top of Ulysses ?
Well... Arrhumpf (Flourish) I'VE BEEN STARTING ULYSSES last Sunday. Once more... I've even invented an aphorism : to start Ulysses is like to stop smoking : you usually do not succeed at once.
Thanks for the encouragement, BJ, I need it! I just finished episode 14 of Ulysses . It takes place in a Dublin maternity ward. Joyce academics have documented some 30 stylistic forms throughout this one episode. Even with multiple plot summaries, annotated versions, etc. I admit I don't have ...
... about the village libraries containing trash...but no Tolstoy. For awhile, the library here had no copy of Joyce's ULYSSES . Now it does. Not taking any credit but I did mention rather loudly that many critics consider it the finest novel of the 20th Century.
Libraries must offer ...
... a Lady to regain some street cred once this is out of my system. Also promised a Joyce-crazed friend of mine that I'd read Ulysses this summer. I'm open to good/bad/cautionary comments to about these selections before I dive in.
ejj,
Msg 15 was the last "line" of Ulysses .
... language and syntax is part of what I like about his novels. I wonder if people who translate English works like Ulysses into French attempt to capture the playfulness with language possessed by the original? It's a formidable task.
I stopped by Half Price Books and was pleasantly surprised to see the 20% off sale. I was very restrained and only got Ulysses and Bastard Out of Carolina, and a sticker book for the wee one. I also found a copy of Stiff in my mailbox when I got home. And while I'm fessing up, I have about ...
... I almost always plow through till the end, no matter what my problem with a book is.
But I've never been able to finish Ulysses - like solitarycyclist up there. It's a damn shame, because I think it's a marvelous book, myself and I've found it engaging once I get into the rhythm and diction ...
... - and you know what, I loved every last page!
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
I tried reading Ulysses for uni but ended up just reading notes on it instead and milking the lectures for all they were worth. A large stash of hallucinogenic drugs/bottle of absinthe ...
I'm reading Ulysses now, and I should be done (with a 13.57% understanding/retention rate), by about, oh, September.
What a kick-ass book. 'One for the writers, not readers.
Ulysses is written in 1st (if you consider thoughts), 3rd and many other person narration.
... One Nights
53. The Three Musketeers
54. The Time Machine
55. To Kill a Mockingbird
56. Treasure Island
57. Ulysses
58. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
59. Wuthering Heights
Well, I hope I got all the books, because I wasn't sure about all titles... Most of these books I either had ...
I'm currently reading Ulysses , and am up to about episode 11. I haven't a clue as to what year I'll finish it. 'A literary marathon.
... per the modernlib.com dating keys) a Spring 1965 edition, but with a Fall 1964 cover.
I also found a very nice ML Giant Ulysses , which I haven't had a chance to date yet.
... it about halfway through.
The TC Ulysses lectures were almost exclusively chapter analyses. Very good.
How was Ulysses , the book? LOL! I'm a very slow reader or even listener (I have access to the entire unabridged audiobook). I'm up to about episode 10. Ulysses is Mrs. Dallow ...
In a recent read of Ulysses I caught these: Sonic Youth borrowed "i am the boy who can enjoy invisiblity" for Secret Girl. Foetus borrowed the "snotgreen sea" and "the scrotum tightening sea" for Water Torture. Nick Cave's Saint Huck is born in the everchanging neverchanging murky water of the Mis ...
... average adult should read as many, or as few, books as she has the time and inclination for.
And if she decides to read Ulysses and Remembrance of Things Past, and a bunch of Russian novels, she shouldn't be criticized for not reading 1 book a week.
Yup - I have these plus War and Peace, Don Quixote and Ulysses all in a similar format. Normally Moby Dick wouldn't really be long enough to join the series - I guess that's why it comes with a substantial commentary volume. I'm really looking forward to this - I just l*o*v*e Moby Dick. I ...
I'm trying to read Ulysses for the first time. It's like Mrs. Dalloway on acid.
I can't remember which thread it was where I talked about how long it took me to prep for ULYSSES . Read all the bios I could get my hands on but the Stuart Gilbert book, prepared with Joyce's assistance, was pretty much useless.
Let me plug one tome I thought very good, a lovely companion ...
Hey Cliff, you refered to a LT thread about your preparation for Ulysses . Is that still accessible some where? I've seen a post of some excellent on-line resources, including heavily annotated transcriptions.
I've access to Ulysses on the Liffey, James Joyce, Two Decades of Criticism, ...
I like that idea! After just plowing my way through Portrait of the artist as a young man I would be omdb-ing Ulysses for the forseable future! It would also be good to have a spreadsheet with 1-10 scoring if anyone feels like creating one :)
... to bog down on one or two books during the year. The Bible and War and Peace really kicked my butt.
This year it's Ulysses . That is a challenge on its own and I'm only a third through. It's like Mrs. Dalloway on acid.
... night (granted, I don't drink, nor do I diatribe into computer microphones), or even to distinguish, say Tim Curry reading Ulysses versus the Flaming Lips performing Zaireeka (other than the need for four CD players and quite possibly some concentrated substances in the case of the latter)?
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74. Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann Ulysses by James Joyce
Your review of Ulysses is great. It said so very eloquently what I wanted to say about a recent "great" book I read that I simply could not connect with. In those situations, I'm willing to accept that the problem is with me, not the book, and it is what it is. I'm with Lisacurcio in that I ...
Tad, I am in awe of you for having made it through Ulysses ! After reading both A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners, I put off Ulysses indefinitely - I just don't know if I could handle more of that man. I had a prof in university who spent his entire academic career ...
1: Cliff, I'm finally trying to read Ulysses with only minor preparation and it too, is kicking my ass. It's like Mrs. Dalloway on psyllicybin.
There must be some kind of metric here. How many times must you read Ulysses , or what % comprehension must be attained before one has earned ...
... most recent "good one" (Saramago's Blindness), I remember thinking, "that was worth it!" I didn't have that feeling with Ulysses —in fact, I knew 1 day into that week of reading that I probably wouldn't have it.
Peter's opinion is that there are more books out there than I can possibly ...
TadAD, I liked your musings on Ulysses . I've read it once and plan to read it again sometime with a skeleton key. I don't love the book but I do admire the heck out of it. That might sound strange but there are other books I don't particularly like but consider great works. I'm definitely not ...
Well done on the 75 - and I'm glad you made it with Ulysses , even if, by the sound of it, you aren't ;-)
I really loved it (did a dissertation on it for part of my uni course), but can see why it's difficult. It definitely does help to read with annotations or a 'handbook' - there's one whose ...
Book # 75
Great review! No wonder you didn't have time for Battle Cry!
I've had Ulysses for years and have never had the nerve to attempt it. You have encouraged me to at least give it a try. Years ago I read Portrait of an Artist and remember being okay with it--didn't love it, ...
Congratulations on 75 books, and what a way to go over the top! I've never tried Ulysses but have read much about it--I really liked your review. Now, what are you going to do for the next 2/3 of the year?
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Fiction
816 pages
I don't really know what to say—perhaps: I "read" all of it, "got" maybe half of it, "liked" less than a ...
I am so ashamed. Proust remembrance of things Past and Joyce. (not only Finnegan's Wake but also Ulysses but I am primarily a fiction reader.
There are others, but these are the ones of which I am ashamed.
I am so totally out of this conversation. I am currently reading Ulysses ! I don't have a clue what I'm looking for in THAT one.
Ok, here it goes, I know it's crazy but, I finally am going to try, during my commute, to listen to Ulysses .
Speaking of losing track of what's going on...
I just finished the infamous 3rd episode and found Stephen's walk on the beach, with dead dogs, drowned people, etc., pretty darn ...
I have read 44. Although any list that includes Ulysses means I will never complete it!
Turns out I'm more highbrow that I thought - I'm Ulysses
Ulysses !Most people are convinced that you don't make any sense, but compared
to what else you could say, what you're saying now makes ...
... originally liked them and held them to be good writing. Personal interest and taste are just as important of course. Ulysses is a classic of sorts, but I will probably never attempt to read it, no matter how much people might praise it.
Anyway, I think this is intended as a ...
... it seemed literally incredible that I shouldn't have even heard Gaddis's *name* before. The Recognitions was compared to Ulysses , for chrissake!
Anybody else have any favorite novels that were once thought of as landmark works of literature, but now seem to be all but forgotten? I haven't ...
... death are wearing me out : a novel.
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?Ulysses I’m a big fan of Mo Yan.
11) What book would you most like to see made into a ...
... most difficult book you've ever read? I don't recall ever encountering a particularly difficult read, although I'm reading Ulysses this summer upon the request of a friend. I'll keep you posted as to how that literary beastie is going . . .
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you'v ...
... qui a pete?
v-Endgame and . . ., not with a bang
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . one, two, skip a few
| . . . Ulysses , follow the yellow brick road
| . . . Vile Bodies, who's minding the cabal
| . . . Bird Skin Coat
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Loved One ...
Most: Gravity's Rainbow, Infinite Jest, and Ulysses are all books that I look forward to having read . The likelihood of me actually reading any of the any time soon, however, is extremely slim. As far as what I'm looking forward to that I might realistically read sometimes soon would ...
... chutzpah to phrase a question about opinions so opinionatedly?!
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
Ulysses was a huge, hard slog, still unfinished.
16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen?
Dunno. I've never actually *seen* as in "Stayed awake ...
... the words I'd use.
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
That depends on how you define "difficult." Ulysses , I suppose, but there are "easier" books that I would be less happy about having to read again and would therefore likely have more DIFFICULTY getting through.
16 ...
... tsunami-level hype associated with the book will die down, but it will remain a formidable literary legacy. Moby Dick, Ulysses , Gravity's Rainbow and 2666 -- each dirty, polarizing, confusing, revolutionary literary epics. It's good to see Jonathan Littell, Alexander Theroux, and Bolano ...
... we haven't uncovered could exist as well. So be on the lookout.
We believe he's presently entered and is still inside Ulysses , having barricaded himself within its labyrynthine vortices. We believe he's lost, however, and like that old lady in that medical alert commercial who'd fallen ...
... novels by Charles Dickens (I'll list them later)
Lord of the Rings
Gone with the Wind
The Man without Qualities
Ulysses
The Bonfire of the Vanities
... a copy of The Journal of Jesse Smoke. I only need 3 more My Name is America to have a complete set!
I also got a copy of Ulysses , which is one of the Modern Library 100 that I am collecting. Did I mention I might be collecting too much?
I spent less than $3.
... darsu, I think a JR group read's a great idea. Summer might be too soon for me as I'll just by then be coming down off Ulysses and undoubtedly need some time for decompression & heal frostbite on the appendages, but I could see jumping back into that say maybe in the Fall?
Wanted to add ...
... but they are helpful to browsers. The problem is that not all FICTION can be placed into an identifiable genre. Take Ulysses for example. It doesn't have a genre, and nobody wants to make one up just to house it. If FICTION is to be subdivided helpfully at all so as to house Ulysses ...
>15, 16
Yes, but I put up with it, and to avoid hangovers I'll continue with Ulysses when finished 'ISOLT' in about four months.
... In you, My Son, am I well pleased.
O ye of little faith. I once was lost, but now am found; was blind, but now I Ulysses !
My alternate list:
1. Ulysses by James Joyce
2. The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
3. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
4. Villette by Charlotte Bronte
5. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
I'm only listing 5 because I hope to really finish my list of 12 and not ...
Episode 13, Nausicca, from Ulysses .
Oh, sorry,I thought you said best SELF love scenes.
;)
... Judeo-Christian, has found its way into literature either by plot or character motivation. Look at Elmer Gantry or Ulysses . The point is you cannot simply throw away everything that has a bent outside of what we perceive as reality BECAUSE it is not reality based. The story has to stand ...
Hi Kjellika and Pummzie,
Have fun with Ulysses . When you finish, I triple dog dare you (an American expression) to read Finnigans Wake.
... Cuisine of Hungary
India – A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth
Iran (Persia)- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Ireland – Ulysses James Joyce
Italy – The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli
Japan – The Wind up Bird Chronicles Haruki Murakami
Kenya – Out of Africa Isak Dinese ...
... all the shorter books I have in my queue before tackling bigger stuff. Probably why it took me so long to finally pick up Ulysses ...
Anyway, glad to hear you're enjoying The Savage Detectives. I suspect I'll find my way around to that one eventually.
Hey gang, I'm currently listening to Prof. James A. W. Heffernan's (The Teaching Company) lectures on Ulysses . I'm a bit intimidated by all this cerebral edema going on here. I haven't even bought my ice axe or crampons yet. I'll get around to starting toward base camp soon.
... Norwegian), in three days I'll start on volume 5.
Still waiting for The Bloomsday Book to arrive, and I AM going to read Ulysses when I've finished 'ISOLT' about July-August this year.
#66 is NOT a joke!! Just postponing (he-he). One excuse: I must have The Bloomsday Book !!!
I'm currently listening to the Teaching Company Great Courses Lecture Series on Ulyssses . So far it is great. Some day I may even tackle the real thing.
I'm now on to a Teaching Company Lecture Series about Ulysses . It is very interesting. We shall see if it inspres me to tackle Joyce.
... at school, and I dragged myself through War and Peace. I got two pages into Finnegan's Wake and haven't attempted Ulysses . I read The Selfish Gene at college (and The Double Helix), but I haven't read A Brief History of Time.
PS The Proust thing: some people probably claim to ...
Ah, are you part of EnriqueFreeque's Ulysses group, Samantha? They're having way too much fun over there.
#14 Ulysses
Long, complicated, vulgar. Difficult prose. Compelling.
... after I finished helpful and I will be rereading this book at a later date now I see it was Woolf's response to Ulysses & TS Eliot's The Waste Land. I liked the way the stories came and went on the different characters and that walking through London tied them altogether. I saw an I ...
... one of the guys' girlfriends has run off with another guy the reading that accompanies the toss of the typewriter is from Ulysses when, well I don't want to post a spoiler. I guess this might be an instance of bibliomancy as well. Except as an exorcism rather than a soothsaying.
... use three or four of the standard texts all together for Ulysses' interpretation: Bloomsday, Stuart Gilbert's Ulysses, Ulysses Annotated and Allusions in Ulysses. I'd already happened to have Ellmann's biography of Joyce which also has some good sections covering Ulysses, just not as in ...
... it soon.
I wonder if this book is straight-forward AND thorough, or do I need another reference to understand it (and Ulysses )........;-d
>> 49,50: add me
Just got my handy Ulysses Annotated out, and you are correct slick.: "the 'lights' (lungs) of slaughtered animals wobble in the buckets into which they are dropped."
And you know, most of us here like a "long story" or we probably wouldn't be here. I'm sort of scared asking what you were ...
Now I've got an English paperback edition of Ulysses (cf. message 43), and I'll use this edition when commenting here.
I'm now at page 14 (Engl. edition).
Which edition do you read?
Message 46, slickdpdx,
There seem to be some "headlines" from page 147 to page 189 in my version. Are ...
... that it is one of the three most famous novels from the "modernism period". I assume the other two mentioned were:
Ulysses and In Search of Lost Time.
That's interesting:
One in German, one in English, and one in French.
I'm reading The Forsyte Saga (vol. 1 of three) just now, ...
If you are having trouble with Ulysses , you might consider reading it with a reading companion. The Bloomsday Book is a useful guide that I'm familiar with, but there are others as well.
CHALLENGE:
A new attempt (my fourth) on reading Ulysses !!!!!
... read the introduction by senator David Norris, Dublin. Is this preface in the English editions?
My Norwegion version of Ulysses has got ~600 pages, and is translated by Olav Angell.
Anybody here reading Ulysses in translated versions?
I've tried three times before to read this novel, ...
A Jewish mom preferring Irish whiskeys? Now Ulysses is starting to make more sense ;)
... fathomed what happened! I got most of it I think, but I am still slightly confused. I have also been persevering with Ulysses , which I am enjoying a lot :)
I think I will pop down to the second-hand book shop later this week to buy myself a congratulatory book!
... Hemingway's A Moveable Feast), and Beach became a confidant of James Joyce—to the point where she published his banned Ulysses .
Buzbee is skimpy with his descriptions of paper- and ink-making, book covers (or lack thereof), and the invention of the printing press. For those interested in ...
...
What I was trying to say, in a long winded way, is that I thought that was quite funny.
In terms of accidentally reading Ulysses , I mean that I had been saving it for when I had more time to concentrate on it but I absentmindedly picked it off the shelf and continued to peruse its pages until ...
I'm saying that after War and Peace you won't be afraid to take on Ulysses or Finnegan's Wake because of their bulk. You may not wish to read them for other reasons, but length will be a less daunting reason than it might have been.
... The Life and Opinions of Tomcat Murr, and am also about half-way through Crime and Punishment. I accidentally started Ulysses on Sunday as well. I am also very, very slowly working through Watt but this is a bit of a longer term project! I occasionally delve into The Book of Disquiet ...
... Edgworth
Delightful and at times laugh-out-loud funny.
I'm about to start a big fat non-fiction book as well as Ulysses *gulp*, so it may be a while before I'm swept up onto this shore again...see you on the flip side :)
... Let's face it; you're a bit of a literature nerd. You probably read War and Peace in one sitting and followed it up with Ulysses just for fun. You can name all the characters in every Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel and have never read any of the Harry Potter books on principle . You ...
... or predict future classics? So, for example, if we consider what has made To Kill a Mockingbird, Madame Bovary, Ulysses , Silas Marner, and Great Expectations will we be able to come up with a formula?
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man? or Ulysses ?
... always wanted that one, but am unwilling to pay what is usually sells for these days.
Have you already got your Ulysses and Lysistrata? Unless I win the SuperLotto, I'm resigned to never being able to own those LECs. (But I do have a Life of Johnson with spines the same color as ...
... Little, Big* and The Wasp Factory. I have Possession, although I've yet to read it (the film was pants). Likewise Ulysses . I've also got Norfolk's The Pope's Rhinoceros and In the Shape of a Boar on the tbr pile.
* what rubbish is this? The Little, Big touchstone returns ...
... I was working close to 70 hours a week. Was I entertained? Yes, and I am not ashamed to admit it. Could I have handled Ulysses in its place? Certainly not. Still, would I recommend Dan Brown to my more seriously literary friends? Laughable.
Now, of course it’s not all black and ...
Right on, Mystery!
I don't have the time or patience to exercise the old cortex. When I finally get around to Ulysses , I'll have read every easy study guide, summary, analysis, essay and critique available. I don't care about spoilers; I just like to ease into things. That's just how I roll. ...
I've got well over 400 on my TBR list, from Absalom, Absalom! and the Ambassadors to Ulysses and Your Inner Fish.
I can't even speculate as to what is next!
War and Peace? Not a series.
The Great Gatsby? Not a series.
Ulysses ? Not a series.
Jane Eyre? Not a series.
Hey, they could be right.
...oh wait, i forgot. Harry Potter.
I've read the Annotated versions of Ulysses , Portrait of the Artist, and Dubliners. I get annoyed when they explain everything. My other pet peeve is when the annotator uses the end-notes to push a specific academic position.
I did find the footnotes helpful for Cousin Bette, since ...
... will be more or less literary.
Genre doesn't require interiority for its characters, just a successful plot. Consider Ulysses or A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man or some other literary work. The characters have a very strong, sometimes overwhelming, interior life.
I would say ...
... I find weigh on my mind. Remeberance of Things Past, War and Peace, The Bible, etc. My friend has a theory about Ulysses - he is waiting to read it until the end of his life so that he might catch 1/4 of the references. I think maybe that is a good theory with some of these.
A_S, I've been wanting to read some Joyce for a while. Should I read Ulysses or Finnegan's Wake? Or maybe both, in which case which one would be an easier first read?
... should add Lovecraft too.
I loved East of Eden, when I was in 9th grade.
Two books I have started countless times: Ulysses , and The Brothers Karamozov. I did finally get through the latter, and it was worth the effort.
Now I am listening to Ulysses on CD.
... though allowed me a little more ease with her prose. She is not an easy writer to enjoy. I have already given up on Ulysses once and am going to try this year once more, with a little help from a website mentioned to me by tloeffler. Kudos for finishing a classic. I have had the same ...
... get yourself a Kindle and all you have to do when anna looks over your shoulder is do a quick switch from Regency Buck to Ulysses .
... so I can't begin to understand the complexities and subtleties that are most likely hiding in this work. I've never read Ulysses by James Joyce, either, a novel to which Mrs. Dalloway is (apparently) often paralleled, so there goes more that I might be missing. While I did enjoy ...
Anna, if you check around, there is an annotated version of Ulysses . It's the version I read.
As far as idiot puritans protesting the book, I think it had to do with the few swears and implied sexuality, plus Joyce's not-so-high regard for organized religion. I can't see these Midwestern ...
#6: Was the survey question about one's favorite book, or about the "best" book? Because I see that Ulysses tends to top the latter sort of survey, no doubt because teachers and critics are always telling us plebes that it is, indeed, the best.
Ulysses wasn't that bad. Not something I'll reread on an annual basis -- well, maybe the "Nighttown" bit ;) -- but as an aspiring wannabe novelist, Ulysses holds all the secrets of what is possible with the Novel Form.
... to elevate their work to mediocre. I actually found Chapter 1 of Angels and Demons harder to get through than all of Ulysses , mainly because Dan Brown can't write his way out of a wet paper bag.
I don't demand genre-transcending, perfectly-polished literary jewels every time. That's ...
Ulysses . I've started it several times, then finally gave the book away. When I find a used copy somewhere, maybe I'll try again. I know I should. A former student read The Hunchback of Notre Dame this summer and loved it, so I feel like I should read it now too.
Thanks again for the invite, EF. I finally got a copy of Ulysses from my local Chapters bookstore. I scored a 25% off coupon that expired on Valentine's Day. So, yes, while everyone was off celebrating with their sweetie I spent the day with my true love(s) and went bookshopping!!
I hope I ...
... of "loans" to the young Irishman.)
"Joyce discussed his own work more and more freely with Svevo. As he began planning Ulysses , he frequently consulted his pupil about Jewish beliefs and practices; and thus Svevo contributed to the characterization of Leopold Bloom. Livia -- or, at least, ...
... would use Palmer's illustrations. However, the 1974 edition's format would be much smaller than those of War and Peace, Ulysses and Don Quixote so I suspect it will be reset in a larger format and have new illusatrations. I would be unhappy if they simply scaled up the original woodcuts - ...
... of Keats, some of which I regularly re-visit. I haven't re-read them yet, but I feel I will, Foucalt's Pendulum and Ulysses probably deserve re-reading as they are so intricate there are bound to be things that would take a second outing to appreciate. Perhaps, also by Eco, is the Isla ...
>23: YAY! I love Ulysses , and it seems to be so rare to find other people who do... even those who will say they've finished it usually admit they hate it. I think it's amaaaaazing. (Coincidentally - I'm sure - that Book Quiz link that Erin/wunderkind started off told me that I am Ulysses ...
... ary
The Divine Comedy -- Dante Alighieri
Hamlet -- William Shakespeare
James Joyce -- Richard Ellmann
James Joyce's Ulysses -- Stuart Gilbert
James Joyce and the Making of Ulysses -- Frank Budgen
King James Bible
The Odyssey - Homer
Re Joyce - Antho ...
... jk
"Etiquette is etiquette. He kills his mother but he can't wear grey trousers." Buck Mulligan speaking to Stephen in Ulysses
#26 - True, but I read Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man* AND Ulysses ** back in grad school.
* Loved it!
** OY!
... written, and because it rightly occupies an honored position in western literature for its innovation. Also, I hope to read Ulysses soon, and this book is its precursor, of sorts. Some of the passages were simply stellar in the imagery and metaphor. The end of Chapter 4, where Stephen ...
#8
The book that got me through Ulysses was Ulysses Annotated by Don Gifford. Highly recommended!!!
... to pose. I guess I subconsciously feel that there might be books I "should" read (certain classics come to mind such as Ulysses or Moby Dick), but I doubt that I'd ever read them when there are so many other books that I actually want to read.
The closest my 999 challenge comes is my 100 ...
... I can understand why they wouldn't want to read more. I did all my pleasure reading in the summer. That's when I read Ulysses and Temptation of St. Antony by Flaubert.
Hear hear! I read The Metamorphosis, it was okay; I started Ulysses and had no idea what the hell was going on... I read Harry Potter and Twilight and The Da Vinci Code and laughed and cried and got so excited I couldn't put them down - and that's why they'll stick in my mind and on my ...
... Artist as a Young Man. It provides some social and psychological background for Steven that may be useful in understanding Ulysses .
... and as a linguistics major I should have read Finnegans Wake by now just on principle. But I think I should start with Ulysses . What do all you Joyceans think?
... survive disaster in the mountains
Joyce's Ulysses for Everyone - a guide to reading Ulysses for the first time (Mood)
Ulysses - Gabler edition
Ulysses - Audio CD, Donnelly/Healy-Louie; if you can't get your significant other to read aloud
Smithwick's - a case (or two)
Wow, some deep reading in that course. But all interesting I would think. I can't wait to see what you think of Ulysses as I am trying to decide whether to tackle it myself. I haven't read any Virginia Woolf yet either. Nor much T. S. Eliot, but my girls certainly like his poems. (Or I think ...
Next on my reading list is actually Ulysses . I'm taking a literature course this term. The main texts are A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses , Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf and Selected Poems by T. S. Eliot.
I read 67 books last year but made some major mistakes on my quest for 100 Among them:
Reading Ulysses
Not finishing Crime and Punishment or Mason and Dixon
Taking 18 credits
Going skiing
If you are trying to put up numbers, I recommend:
Reading Greek tragedies or other plays and ...
... Edition contains material not found in other editions, but this is true of numerous books in my library. My copy of Ulysses contains a lengthy introduction that is not part of the novel and does not appear in the majority of editions. My second edition of The Selfish Gene is also ...
Who cares how long it takes? Congrats on finishing Ulysses --that's a whole challenge in itself. That book scares me. Anyway, it's not about how fast you read, or how many you read--I think, anyway--it's about how much you enjoy your reading. My $.02, for what it's worth.
... that veers fro the personal to the mundane to the shocking. Despite being short, it reminded me a little of James Joyce's Ulysses , but where Joyce's book internalized the narrative to turn the mundane into the epic, Kis does the opposite, transcribing the epic (the holocaust) in terms of Eduard ...
So much has been written and said about Ulysses that I can't add much to that.
The book is readable, even enjoyable though at times hard to follow. In many places I knew I didn't get it, that there was something going on somewhere deeper, not just the story. I know there are plenty of books ...
... what it was what about one-third of the time. I'm dense, see, which is why I've enlisted your help. I don't want to read Ulysses the same way that I read GR. My goal is to understand at least 90% of what I'm reading (is that unrealistic, anyone, for a first time read?), so the going, ...
Ulysses , The Complete and Unabridged Text, as Corrected and Reset in 1961.
Compact Oxford English Dictionary
Extra strength crampons
Extra strength Tylenol
I want to travel and climb as lightly as possible, but not so lightly as to risk unnecessary injury, frostbite, or a fall. Am I ...
I love the idea of a group reading of Ulysses . I tried it once on my own and gave up, desperately wishing to be able to discuss it while in progress.
... books? I'm kind of predictable and boring. I need to read books that aren't so old and so European.
Best Novel: Ulysses tied with The Waves
Best Psychological Novel: Crime and Punishment
Best Romance: Victoria by Knut Hamsun; Du cote de chez swann
Best Memoir: Night
Bes ...
... books? I'm kind of predictable and boring. I need to read books that aren't so old and so European.
Best Novel: Ulysses tied with The Waves
Best Psychological Novel: Crime and Punishment
Best Romance: Victoria by Knut Hamsun; Du cote de chez swann
Best Memoir: Night
Bes ...
James Joyce's Ulysses certainly shook things up. Finnegan's Wake, too. I think in terms of the novel, Joyce took language to whole different level in his efforts to emulate human consciousness. I think the works of Samuel Beckett took words as far as they could go. And Proust also did some ...
Did James Joyce really expect people to read Ulysses beyond the first page?
So what does one propose to do with blatant material that is a falsehood? Here on the internet you can get a service provider to delete the page...
Ugh! not Ulysses -- I will never read that thing again.
I'll throw some new names in the hat: East of Eden by Steinbeck; Slaughter-House Five by Vonnegut. I haven't read either and I don't think we have done an Amwerican author yet, have we?
... Game Orson Scott Card
The Return of the King J.R.R. Tolkien
Night Elie Wiesel
Ulysses James Joyce
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut
Lo ...
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"Anna" is coming right along. I really love it, which surprises me. I guess I thought it would be hard to understand, like Ulysses or something, but it's not--it's just a very long book. But fascinating.
17. What It Is - Lynda Barry (209)
18. The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon (192)
19. Ulysses - James Joyce (736)
20. (Not) Keeping Up with Our Parents - Nan Mooney (272)
... LEC books. I've paid $57 + S&H for both books, which seems very reasonable to me, but as for others... Even without Ulysses , which was sold for $6,000 (I know the reason), there were some quite outlandish sales made - $1,500 on Tom Sawyer, $865 for The old Man and the Sea, $511 for W ...
... 20th Century:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Library_List_of_Best_20th-Century_Novels
The critics start off with Ulysses , The Great Gatsby and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the readers with Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, and Battlefield Earth. In the "Readers' To ...
... (I think I've suggested them once or twice before):
The Iliad by Homer
or
The Odyssey by Homer (reread for me).
Ulysses by James Joyce. I think a group read of this novel will be the only way for me to manage more than some few pages of it.
(We could even compare it to The Odyssey ...
... the New Testament. I'm likely to add another book or two as I'm going. Once Portrait is finished, it will be replaced by Ulysses .
... later this year, I want to read as much by Liz Williams as possible.
One day I'll take on Marcel Proust and read Ulysses as well. Perhaps this year? We'll see. (And I should really reread At Swim-Two-Birds to see if it holds up after all these years. Ditto for Master and Margarita. ...
... high school!) Then I found Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in college, along with Norman Brown, Camille Paglia, and Ulysses
In retrospect: Rand is complete shit. But one has to read shit in order to gain a foothold in Good Taste. If anything, her hectoring, filibustering, pro-capit ...
I seem to disagree.
Best Literary: ULYSSES (Joyce)
Best SF Novel: THE FUTUROLOGICAL CONGRESS (Lem)
Best Horror: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN (Joyce)
Best Fantasy: not interested, perhaps FRANKENSTEIN (Shelley)
Best Crime Novel: THE BIG SLEEP (Chandler), THE LADY IN THE LAK ...
... by Octavia Butler
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Ulysses also by James Joyce
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Didn't Joyce say it took him ten years to write ULYSSES so it should take people ten years to read it?
... D.H. Lawrence, 1980's
86. Main Street, Sinclair Lewis, 1970's
87. Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton, 1970's
88. Ulysses, James Joyce 1971
89. Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis, 1960's
90. Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse, 1960's
91. Zeno's Conscience, Italo Svevo, 2007
92. A Passage to ...
... if one was counting typed pages, there are still differences - reading a Nancy Drew mystery is a lot different than reading Ulysses or Macbeth.
And I'm with lunacat - I wanted to prove to myself that I'm not a reading slouch just because I may or may not get to 75 in a year. ;)
... of Yarn
The Mysts of Avalon
American Gods
Don Quixote
A Distant Mirror
A Mercy
Crime and Punishment
Ulysses
Outlander
The Lathe of Heaven
The Meaning of Wife
... arks
The Mighty Book of Boosh by Julian Barratt, Noel Fielding
The Selected Journals of L. M. Montgomery, Volumes 2-4
Ulysses by James Joyce
OK, I'm going to give this a try. We'll see how well it turns out! You can go here for my blog post about my challenge.
Totally reworked this as I can't seem to stick to my ...
... are:
Best fiction book: Perfume: the story of a murderer, A Dance to the Music of Time, Possession: a romance, Ulysses , If On a Winters Night a Traveler, An Artist of the Floating World
Winner: An Artist of the Floating World
The "Bonfire of the Vanities" ...
... a Mustard Seed
Thanks tloeffler for the reminder. March was a long time ago. Perhaps with your help, I will finish Ulysses this year.
... **My Review**
4 - Further Under the Duvet - Marian Keyes
5 - Ulysses - James Joyce
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blackdog, re #364: See Message #17. I sent you a link to an online guide to Ulysses that I had used, after you said such nice things to me about having finished it (March was such a long time ago!).
Congrats on finishing your 75! I'm almost there too--rushing at the last minute, as usual. ...
Just wanted to add that yesterday a friend gave me a copy of Ulysses by James Joyce, making me very, very happy that I can start closing up the glaring Joyce gap in both my library and reading habits. I hate classics gaps. *twitch*
... that isn't really reading; that's just slow learning. But it's fun and it's a change of page (sic) from a rereading of Ulysses , which is really haunting me.
I didn't really like what I've read of Maugham's novels either, although someone recently recommended Cakes and Ale and I'm ...
>364 BDB: I read Ulysses with a guide that was almost as long as the Novel!
I spent six months reading them both. Many years ago now. I read Ulysses again last year or it may have been earlier this year and I skimmed most of it - found it totally uninteresting the second time around, yet ...
... with an overwhelmed sigh.
Nonetheless, one of the biggest challenges for me next year is to read, and finish this time, Ulysses . One of you, I think alaskabookworm, said that they read it with an online guide of some sort but I can't dig up that reference in the threads here. Whoever it ...
... much "look at me, I'm ever so clever". Really not keen to try anything else of Joyce (I'd previously crashed and burned on Ulysses ).
Interesting, I was reading at the same time The End of the Affair by Graham Greene, which has a fair amount of Catholicism in it as well. Somehow Joyce made ...
... you might want to keep the ones heavily annotated. I'm on my fifth copy of The Prince, second copy of On Liberty and Ulysses , fourth copy of Odysseus. Every copy received marginal commentary. Every blank portion of my (now lost) copy of Varieties of Religious Experience was ...
Well, Ulysses , of course.
But next person gets to do it (do you want a do-over?), because I'm going to be out this evening.
OR, correction, Thrin beat me to it - to you Thrin!
Ulysses is the primary reshaper of how I read books.I read a lot of books as a kid and nothing wiped the slate clean and reset the clock the way that book does. I got a total synaptic upgrade. The reading of it changed everything. Everything measures up to the standard that that book sets, and a ...
Three weeks and three and a third (of a book) books to go.
One of the not even started yet books is Ulysses so I guess I'll be reading the last one by the end of the year.
... by Lawrence Durrell
Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
The Letters of Noel Coward edited by Barry Day
Ulysses by James Joyce (no, really!)
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
I'm cheating like mad, counting both a 12-book series and a 4-book quartet as 1 book.
...
... esson
by Philip Roth
11/28/08
The Cement Garden
by Ian McEwan
11/29/08
Mao II
by Don DeLillo
11/30/08
†Ulysses
by James Joyce
12/03/08
The Witches of Eastwick (#310)
by John Updike
12/05/08
Sackett's Land
by Louis L'Amour
12/06/08
Okay, I have tried Joyce once before, with Ulysses . Not much best reading attempt, I admired the language, put it down after several pages and never got back to it. (I have seen - I wouldn't classify it as "reading" - the first page of Finnegan's Wake and I'm never going to bother to attempt ...
... recommeded it to someone), but I do think that some people might not like it. Maybe someday I will be brave enough to give Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake a try. :)
--BJ
... it.
Finish that book on spirituality. hmmmm. Start that book on spirituality, then finish it.
Read Moby Dick, Ulysses , Gravity's Rainbow and finish In Search of Lost Time.
Climb Denali...although I am wavering on that one.
Visit Machu Pichu, Angor Wat, the Australian ...
#106 Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Fun, trashy historical fiction that is almost as long as Ulysses . I'll probably read the next couple in the series someday, but I'm in no hurry.
I haven't quite completed my list yet, but Ulysses is definitely hovering there. Yipes!
I've read Go Tell It On The Mountain! Anyone here read Ulysses ?
... well, but I really should NOT start another book... *sounds of a wookiebender's arm being twisted*... I've only ever tried Ulysses by Joyce before. Rather amazing language, but I didn't get very far into it. The size is a bit daunting. Yay for thin books. ;)
Why is it that if I search Ulysses in "Add Books," everything that comes up is about martial arts and body cleansing, and the last book to pop up is the actual book, with a title that actually matches?
And why, when I search Qu'ran, I get a bunch of scholarly books on foreign relations and Jiha ...
... me a little over a month. I'm sure a missed a lot, but with a book this complex (how many graduate theses are written on Ulysses ? Dozens? Hundreds?) that's part of the fun - knowing that next time I read it (and it'll get a reread in a few years) there'll be new things to pick up on. I'd love ...
#94 Ulysses by James Joyce
There has been a lot of hating on Ulysses in the LT groups I hang out in. However, of the 1084 LTers who have rated it, 846 (78%) gave it 4 stars or better.
As did I. Simply put, this book is amazing. If I wrote fiction (I don't) Ulysses would make me ...
... and not huge clunkers, and I did start Portrait a few years back, and really should get on with it before I start Ulysses .
... and not huge clunkers, and I did start Portrait a few years back, and really should get on with it before I start Ulysses .
Still working my way through Ulysses , and started The White Tiger for my commute-read (much, much shorter!)
I like The White Tiger so far, but I think that A Fraction of the Whole was much better.
... not as strange as the darkened classroom and whale calls.
Also have not read most of the austen novels, but plan to and no Ulysses , though someday I will force myself.
Oh, and I can't stand Dickens. Never have, never will. Have tried. I'm surprised living in England I haven't been stoned ...
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Certainly it's difficult, but it can be done, usually by playing with components of the novel other than its storyline. In Ulysses , for example, James Joyce used a plot that had been around at least since Homer and managed to create a novel that is still seen as one of the most ...
>12 Good decision. Joyce was pretentious, obscure and difficult to comprehend. On the other hand I have read Ulysses twice. The first time I spent six months reading it with a commentary and I enjoyed it - I was young, so what did I know! I tried again 30 years later and couldn't get through it ...
... Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemmingway
24. Swimming by Johanna Hershon
25. Grand Sophy by Georgette Hayer
26. Ulysses by James Joyce
27. Through A Glass Darkly by Kathleen Koen
28. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
29. Keturah And Lord Death by Martine Leavitt
3 ...
I found Ulysses tough as well, of course (and loved every baffling minute of it). Two others come to mind immediately:
First, The Waves, by Virginia Woolf which, despite my admiration for Woolf, really never opened up for me. If I had to do it again, I probably wouldn't read that one.
...
... before I tackled ULYSSES, the bios, the books about the book. And I STILL got my ass kicked.
But I ended up admiring ULYSSES , its artfulness, Joyce's incomparable grasp of language. It was even (gasp!) hilariously funny in places (the brothel scene, for instance).
Other tough reads:
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I second bookoholic's suggestion. Read it with Ulysses Annotated - it helps a lot!
I haven't read Dr. Faustus, but I'm actually enjoying Ulysses . Having annotations helps.
ULYSSES --that one I had to work for. Read every Joyce biography, even bought the companion book that Stuart Gilbert wrote (with Joyce's approval and cooperation). Ten years ULYSSES sat on the shelf before I felt I was ready to tackle it--and, yup, even with all that preparation, I'm sure I ...
Ulysses is piled amongst my TBR list. However, I was dealt a crushing defeat this week upon abandoning Dr. Faustus. Is Ulysses anywhere near as difficult as Thomas Mann's Dr. Faustus?
Ulysses is piled amongst my TBR list. However, I was dealt a crushing defeat this week upon abandoning Dr. Faustus. Is Ulysses anywhere near as difficult as Thomas Mann's Dr. Faustus?
Ulysses by James Joyce
Naked by David Sedaris
Snow by Orhan Pahmu
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Inglorious by Joanna Kavenna
... but isn't fucking Dean Koontz either. What do you pluck off their shelf when your brain is too sodden or slow to tackle ULYSSES ?
#22 jlelliott - Lolita is the greatest book ever. Enjoy!
I'm reading Ulysses right now, which is not as difficult as I thought it would be. I'm actually kind of enjoying it.
... Odyssey narrated by Susan Sarandon and Stanley Lombardo and it is GREAT! I originally purchased it in prep for tackling Ulysses , but I'm enjoying it so much, I might continue on with their rendition of The Iliad instead.
... escape rather than think seriously - still not really an excuse...).
And I'm always pleased to find someone who's read Ulysses , of course :-) I did a dissertation on one section as part of my degree, and hence took it on holiday to Tenerife - getting a giggle out of reading it by the pool ...
#44 torontoc what do you think of Payback? How does Atwood do writing this kind of nonfiction?
This week, for me: Ulysses , still, and for awhile.
When I'm looking for something I don't have to work at, I'm reading Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips and A Fraction of the Whole ...
... Stories by Vladimir Nabokov (still halfway)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche (still early stages)
Ulysses by James Joyce (still about a third of the way)
Trickster Makes This World by Lewis Hyde (still about a third of the way)
Language and Silence by George Steine ...
... reading is The Assault on Reason which I need to put down for the night because it's making me all worked up.
Then Ulysses , which I'm going to read all by itself because I'll need to focus.
#127 sydamy - I'd never heard of God in a Cup until you mentioned it and now I have to read ...
Yes to your first question.
No to Ulysses , though
... those guys who "oohs" and "ahs" as he's trailing his fingers across book spines. Always wanted to hold a first edition of ULYSSES in my shaking hands...
In honor of Banned Books Week, I think I'm going to finally tackle Ulysses .
... earlier than I expected (I'm at 81 now). My next 7 are still mostly up in the air, but they will include Finnegans Wake, Ulysses (I am a glutton for punishment, apparently) and Death of the Heart.
... time I have. (Shhhh.) I enjoyed it quite a bit. Better even than Dubliners (as a whole, anyway) and much better than Ulysses , which makes me cranky.
I do feel guilty about my duplicate post...
... guilty, as I've tackled my TBR list pretty well this year (2 Dickens!), but I'm a bit anxious perhaps to get to the rest. Ulysses is the sore thumb sticking out in my TBR, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
... books are Children of Clay, We always treat women too well--a comic novel which borrows characters from James Joyce's Ulysses and puts them in the GPO on Easter Sunday 1916 for the pentultimate event of 20th century Irish history known as the Easter rebellion. I always very much like The ...
... I found Portrait quite bearable, along with the collection of short stories Dubliners. Less certain about tackling Ulysses .)
The only thing is that I just might find myself at the age of 67 with a hundred or so books that I just have no desire to read.
Has anyone read Something Ro ...
... dread pretty much anything by Joyce and while there are some texts that are probably worth my time (like the Portrait and Ulysses ), the Wake just seems like it'll be a problem.
EDIT: Fixed a major spelling error.
The History Of The United States Navy by James M. Morris
... Nabokov though, Ada, or Ardor, which is slow going right now, but should be exciting.
My least, without a doubt, is Ulysses .
... Church of Solitude
Spain: Cervantes, Don Quixote
The Netherlands: The Diary of Anne Frank
Ireland: James Joyce, Ulysses ; W.B. Yeats Collected Poems
Russia: Tolstoy, War and Peace and Anna Karenina; Pasternak, Dr. Zhivago, Chekhov's plays, especially Uncle Vanya and The Che ...
... have a tinfoil helmet handy MrA. MsD must love that when you go out in public.
The day I started reading James Joyce's Ulysses I saw a Dubliner's Cheese truck and a Joyce moving van.
I have a whole list of books to read, but in September I'm going to tackle Ulysses (wish me luck!). Also, I have the new Marilynne Robinson book, Home , pre-ordered, and when that arrives in September sometime it's going straight to the top of the pile.
... And he used the material for his great novel Life and Fate which I think is the greatest 20th century novel or tied with Ulysses for different reasons.
... of the Town, Gardner Botsford, used the catchlines for Hello, Dolly and The Fantasticks to serialize Ulysses , one line at a time.
... amount for the right edition--hopefully The Bodley Head will bring out a definitive version as a companion to their Ulysses --but I stand firm in my belief that any book whose author feels that the ideal reader is "one who would devote his life to it, like to The Koran," has written a ...
Perhaps the problem is determining which version to publish, as the first published editions were full of errors (as was Ulysses , for that matter). I suspect the real problem might be the general lack of reader interest in such a challenging (not to say downright obscure) work.
I think Ulysses by James Joyce occurs on one day.
Books: Ulysses by James Joyce and the Mahabharata. After they've worked out all of Joyce's allusions they'll have 12,000 pages of epic poetry to get through. Alternate Selection: A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking.
Movies: The Best of Youth and then Toy Story in the ...
Ulysses has not been mentioned. It is a great book, I am working on reading it now. My edition is about 760 pages but it reads like a very long book. Another favorite of mine is Moby Dick. It kept me going for three weeks.
... the English Hons course I took at uni - both would be incredibly hard work for me today! Actually I think it's going to be Ulysses that is going to kill me :)
... to read it later. Maybe I'll like it better in some years ???
Two books on my bookshelves I imagine I'll never finish:
Ulysses by James Joyce (difficult, very unfamiliar style to me)
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust (VERY looong, I'v read Swann's Way)
... Wind, which I like the movie of but have never been able to get past Chapter 2 and the Tarleton twins when reading, and Ulysses , which I try periodically to read and get a little farther each time.
#39,40
My Norwegian edition of Ulysses is about 20 years old and I've tried lots of times to read it. I read about 50-60 pages before I had to put it back on my bookshelf. I guess I'll never manage finishing this novel, but I somehow wish I could.
#41
I'm a member of "The Literary Encycloped ...
... by David L. Pelham
The Mask of Apollo, by Mary Renault
James, fabulous feline, by Harriet Hahn
Ulysses , by James Joyce
... edition.
Most FS limited editions (the fiction titles anyway) have been landmark publications in a nation's literature: Ulysses , Don Quixote, War and Peace, Decameron - and even the Tolkien set since LOTR was voted the Book of the Century by FS members. My personal choice would be ...
... It's also a fact that certain situations are much more conducive to reading: when I was in Dublin 2 years ago, I read Ulysses in about 4 days--without skimming, as I had done some 40 years ago when I first read it.
Being away from home, stuck in a hotel on a job without friends and/or ...
... I am very glad I to be able to work in The Landmark Herodotus and still keep up with the challenge.
Now I have started Ulysses . I was reading along and all of a sudden the words started jumping off the page and I was immersed in the author's world. I am having to learn to read in a ...
... follow the example of their Greatest Shakespeare Library, the Virginia Woolf books, and the reprint of the LEC Joyce's Ulysses with Matisse's illustrations, which were offered briefly and never returned to the catalogue when the stocks were exhausted.
... Joyce are two of my favourite authors... so I'd be really amiss not to stick up for their works... :)
37 - I loved Ulysses , but it is definitely not for everyone. (Maybe not even for most! He's an acquired taste, like Natto -- which is fermented soybeans, or even like Vegemite.)
43 ...
Alert the Press! The Landmark Herodotus is done. Now on to Ulysses .
Has anyone actually finished Ulysses ? I've started it several times and have given up each time. It's one of the few books I actually bought then gave away. If someone has a ringing endorsement of it, maybe I'll try it again.
... Nietzsche (still early stages and I put it down a while back and it is several hundred miles away at present....)
Ulysses by James Joyce (about a third of the way but also several hundred miles away)
Trickster Makes This World by Lewis Hyde (about a third of the way but also several ...
... Now this was obviously a fool's quest as there is a lifetime of literature there but it was made worse by my making Ulysses my fourth book (after angela's ashes, The Dubliners and a book of Irish Mythology) and I never got any further than that. I didn't get past the library on that ...
... then 100 pages of appendices. In order to keep up with the challenge I will have to get my book a week in as I read Ulysses . Next post when I finish Herodotus.
... went upside-down, and I think, now that I'm accepting new financial responsibilities relating to family, that the LEC Ulysses will always remain for me the Holy Grail that I can never possess. I tried to get the Easton Press facsimile when it was first introduced, but it sold out quickly ...
Collected Ficciones
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
Invisible Cities
Ulysses
Pale Fire
Manhattan Transfer
Infinite Jest
... from Amazon:
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Letters of Noel Coward by Noel Coward
My friend had to bring me this package from work since I'm home recuperating for a few days, ...
Just yesterday I wondered to myself what the date was, that it must be almost Bloomsday.
I took a seminar on Ulysses
... do not know what I am talking about, you may find info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomsday
Has anyone here read Ulysses , or tried to?
I have been reading it over a year now via public domain internet and a podcast that a friend of mine does.
It is a lovely text, just very, very ...
...
24. Portrait of an Artist as a Young man by James Joyce
I now understand why Stephen was a whiney bitch throughout Ulysses . This is definitely aimed at a younger crowd who can more easily identify with Stephen's plight and it brought back not so fond memories of being sent to parochial ...
... Munchausen with John Held's illustrations, the 8 volume complete set of The Memoirs of Casanova Joyce's Ulysses , Daudet's Tartarin of Tarascon, Don Quixote with Ricart's illustrations, Anthony Adverse, Bernal Diaz' True History of the Conquest of New Spain, and many ...
... 15 pages. Now I feel the challenge. First I have to finish The Landmark Herodotus, I'm about half-way done, then I read Ulysses . Excitement in the world of books, brought to you by LT.
All of this talk about Joyce gives me the urge to have a go at Ulysses . It has been sitting on my shelf for years. I've read all of the good things written about it so I must give it a try. I'll start today and come back with a report on first impressions.
... for An Outcast of the Islands.
I agree with you about The Secret Agent. On another thread here that discussed Ulysses as the Greatest 20th Century novel, I opined that for continuing relevance and as examples of stories that wear their art and profundity in the guise of rattling ...
... that I will want to re-read it in the next 20 years or so. I'll stick with Dickens.
I've read some other reviews of Ulysses too, and I don't think this is a sort of book I should be getting a Limited Edition of. I'll keep my money for Les Miserables, when it appears.
... it all that time, and doubt that I will want to re-read it in the next 20 years or so.
I've read some other reviews of Ulysses too, and I don't think this is a sort of book I should be getting a Limited Edition of. I'll keep my money for Les Miserables, when it appears.
... advocates (and detractors) for the GNo20thCent as well.
As far as English-language novels go, you'd be safer in saying Ulysses was one of the most influential novels of the 20th century, not so much for its stream-of-conscious technique which could be traced back at least as far as Tristram ...
I wanted to ask if any of you has the Limited Edition of Ulysses from 2004; it's two questions in one, I suppose - first, how is the edition done (I've just seen a picture of the covers), and second, about the book itself - as I must admit I still haven't read it (just know that some say it's the ...
... want to), I'd like to see Finnegans Wake. The FS has done Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses . So I'd like to have a nice, new edition of the Wake to go with the others. I'm with Django and don't necessarily care that it matches.
They might want to do a ...
... No boyfriend? Read The Idiot. Not a drop of cheerleader in your persona (i.e., the popular girls)? Read Ulysses .
Kiwi, I had a huge science fiction collection too. :)
I read Ulysses as a part of a course, a seminar with a Joycian scholar, and it worked fine that way. I would never attempt it on my own, however I bet our tiffin did it while knitting and listening to music! :-) I think hashiru's oral group idea is perfect -- I 'll come!
... Nietzsche (still early stages and I put it down a while back and it is several hundred miles away at present....)
Ulysses by James Joyce (about a third of the way but also several hundred miles away)
Trickster Makes This World by Lewis Hyde (about a third of the way but also several ...
... Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, John Sloan, and Miguel Covarrubias (leaving out the obvious coups such as Matisse's art for Ulysses and Picasso's for Lysistrata), and that these artists SIGNED the books, I have to believe those books were some of the greatest bargains ever.
Incidentally, ...
... a Young Man is not difficult but you really need a study guide (or some background info) to understand it properly. As for Ulysses - good luck! And Finnegan's Wake - I don't think I've met anyone who finished it.
... categories:
1)"beach reads", fluff books
2)books in my TBR pile that I've been putting off (I recently got through Ulysses this way)
3)books about travel, bonus if it's about the place that I'm visiting
I think that I'll go with option #2 so that I'll have enough to read to fill all ...
... few days... My tags for Spy: The Funny Years have jumped to The Great Gatsby, and Duma Key's tags are appearing on Ulysses . I liked Duma King and all, but its no Ulysses. There are others that this has been happening to as well.
Anyone else experiencing the same thing?
Ulysses too heavy?
... Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is my favorite, followed by Dubliners; if I were trying it again, I'd bet that Ulysses by Joyce would end right back up on my Can't Finish list -- right next to Gone With the Wind. I've started both of them two or three times each and can't get ...
... finished Samuel Beckett's Molloy, and started on Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood.
I'm also working on James Joyce's Ulysses , but that one is a long-haul read.
... Flannery O'Connor today. (I wanted to start Death in Venice, but it looks like I left that at work.)
I'm also reading Ulysses at the same time; in order to really understand it (or so I hope!), I'm only reading 10-15 pages a day, and I'm making sure it's dedicated reading (so no reading it ...
... they address broadly applicable themes, like the Bhagavad Gita, because they have iconic characters, like Robin Hood or Ulysses , or for some other reason). Because they persist over time, some thing in them speaks accross time periods and cultures, often getting modified or altered in the ...
I bought Ulysses in about 1990. So far, I only made it to just past the breakfast scene. Every couple of years I make it another page or two. Maybe some day....
I inherited Ulysses along with a few hundred others from an aunt in 1984. I tried to read it before that and have tried five more times. I should just give up, but it's at the top of so many lists. I see it as a challenge now. Any suggestions on how to approach it, or where it will get easier ...
Ulysses is on my to-do list as well, but I will probably wait till next winter to hit that, as I've got a fairly full reading plate already!
My plan is to read them as the mood strikes me. I plan on completing Swann's Way right off the bat, then I'll either move on to the next volume or ...
I'm intending to embark on Volume One in the near future (as soon as I finish Ulysses --no mean feat in itself). I plan on breaking it up to make the venture more palatable. I'm 24 now; I figure, if I read a volume a year, I'll finish when I'm 31. That doesn't seem so bad, does it? :^)
So I ...
... Nietzsche (still early stages and I put it down a while back and it is several hundred miles away at present....)
Ulysses by James Joyce (about a third of the way but also several hundred miles away)
Trickster Makes This World by Lewis Hyde (about a third of the way but also several ...
... (beyond the few pages the members of a grad class on Yeats and Joyce read together at a local pub). I don't get Ulysses in the sense that I think Joyce's stylistic and other choices get in the way of story (I suspect Joyce and I would disagree petulantly on this point), but I don't ...
#21 tloeffler: I also thank you for the link to Ulysses info. I'll save it on my Favorites, and maybe it will eventually help me feel brave enough for Ulysses . But, this year, trying to reach my "75" goal, I'm thinking it might slow me down.
blackdogbooks: have you ever read Shadow Diver ...
... of the English language or teach works in the original which could be a great context for you. I didn't make it through Ulysses until I read it in a class.
Let us know how it goes.
... at Heathrow)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche (still early stages and I put it down a while back....)
Ulysses by James Joyce (about a third of the way)
Trickster Makes This World by Lewis Hyde (about a third of the way)
Language and Silence by George Steiner (about a ...
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow, as well as Joyce's Ulysses .
... can be had for less than the article-length Limited Editions Club John Hersey Hiroshima. Not to mention the LEC's Ulysses , especially in the few examples signed by both Matisse and Joyce.
I think the correct use for a Limited Edition is the highest quality printing of a work which ...
... I admired about the old Limited Editions Club was that they often published limited editions by living authors--Joyce's Ulysses , Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath Masters' Spoon River Anthology, Lewis' Main Street,etc. and wonderful editions of books that deserved a place in most ...
blackdog, thanks for your comment on my reading Ulysses . I was pretty proud of myself. I used this website (http://robotwisdom.com/jaj/ulysses) as an annotation. It gives a synopsis of each chapter, an analysis if you want it, and just a lot of information you can take or leave. One ...
... by Kiran Desai
IN PROGRESS
The Prussian Bride by Yuri Buida.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Ulysses by James Joyce
Trickster Makes This World by Lewis Hyde
Language and Silence by George Steiner
Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb
So far, so slow....
...
... hold and feel and flip the pages of some of their books in the library. That included their amazing out of print edition of Ulysses from 20 years ago and their new edition of The Waste Land. Now if only I can come up with the $600 for a copy...or better yet the $1500/year for a subscription. A ...
... before guessing in this thread, but I figure if I keep trying, one of these days I will guess correctly.
How about Ulysses ?
Dubliners is on my TBR pile, and then Ulysses if I can get through it. I've heard that Dubliners is better and less "arrogant" (friend's words not mine) than Ulysses so if you get to the novel first, we'll have to compare.
Enjoying your list and reviews, thanks!
... Expectiations
14. Moby Dick
15. Middlemarch
16. War and Peace
17. Anna Kerenina
18. Huckleberry Finn
19. Ulysses
20. The Trial
21. The Sound and the Fury
22. Pale Fire
23. The Plague
24. The Great Gatsby
25. Things Fall Apart
... that I could only enjoy Dubliners when I read a singe story then let it settle for a while. One of these days I will try Ulysses and then, when I'm feeling brave (and have a guide), Finnegan's Wake. Got to work my way up to them though.
Hell- it turns out that's not on the 1001 list ...
... Stories by Vladimir Nabokov
The Prussian Bride by Yuri Buida.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Ulysses by James Joyce
Trickster Makes This World by Lewis Hyde
Language and Silence by George Steiner
Slowly, slowly... Note that this is from February, but ...
I'll be Nth person to mention Wuthering Heights. Ugh.
Ulysses . I think I got to page 12 the third time I tried. Never trying again.
... a present from my wife on the birth of our eponymous son - now I am preparing to enter the fray. Over the years, I've read Ulysees , Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and thoroughly enjoyed them, but have never been able to get beyond the first few pages of Finnegan's Wak ...
... / Life, a user's manual (Perec)
Pride and Prejudice (Austen)
Steppenwolf (Hesse)
Vanity fair (Thackeray)
Ulysses (Joyce)
Der Zauberberg / The magic mountain (Thomas Mann)
Tristram Shandy (Sterne)
Novellen / Stories (Heinrich von Kleist)
Wo warst du, Adam? (Böll) ...
... Stories by Vladimir Nabokov
The Prussian Bride by Yuri Buida.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Ulysses by James Joyce
Trickster Makes This World by Lewis Hyde
Language and Silence by George Steiner
Geesh!
... partially based on an inverted snobbery.
What is the point in claiming that Andrei Bely's Petersburg beat Joyce's Ulysses to the punch? (Technically, I would argue that it was a different punch anyway). Ulysses is the book that had the impact on world literature, therefore no matter ...
I am a Joyce fan and indeed wrote numerous essays on him as both an undergrad and grad student.
However, Ulysses I found pretentious. Sorry.
Well I've read The Dubliners and A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man. But I'm not touching Ulysses or Finnegan's Wake before some extensive further conditioning. I don't want to pull a muscle between my ears...
... and amazing city, the people are great, the vodka is dangerous....its a lot of fun. =)
...liked onions
...read Ulysses
...read Anna Karenia
Edited to avoid confusing clam any more than she is already confused
... *loved* War and Peace, myself.
What I've seen to be the problem with things like War and Peace, Gravity's Rainbow, Ulysses , etc. is that many of these books have professors and other 'ivory tower academics' (or the literature world) lavishing heaps and heaps of praise upon them. Then, ...
... so weird" speech :P.
In my humble opinion, War and Peace is no where near as challenging to read as something like Ulysses or Gravity's Rainbow, where almost every other sentence contains some reference to an obscure piece of historical/political thought or fact.
PS - I am only a ...
... i have a copy of his by night unstarred which i'm saving for a time i really need a good read.
i've not yet read Ulysses (for shame) but thats in the long term pile too, a portrait would be another of my big favs.
i have loved the McGahern's ive read, The dark and the ...
8 & 9. Ulysses by James Joyce. I believe I will take two on this book, even though I listened to the audio book. One more life's goal fulfilled! And I really enjoyed it. Difficult to follow in spots, but nothing a good annotation couldn't help me out with, and I just LOVED the language ...
Still here, through the miracle of RSS.
My favourite Irish book is probably Ulysses , cliché and all that that sounds. Dracula second.
... difference between "I want you to change this" or "You ought to change this" and "I noticed that your catalogue entry for Ulysses had the title in the author field and vice versa , and wanted to let you know in case you'd missed the error."
> 14
getting rid of Amazon as a ...
... Stories by Vladimir Nabokov
The Prussian Bride by Yuri Buida.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Ulysses by James Joyce
Trickster Makes This World by Lewis Hyde
Language and Silence by George Steiner
Hmmm, such imbalance!
1. Ulysses by James Joyce (audiobook)
Difficult to understand, but delightful to hear! Donal Donnelly does a fabulous job!
2. Light on Snow by Anita Shreve
Re-reading for an upcoming book discussion
3. Peter and the Shadow Thieves by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
Thick ...
Thanks for the encouraging words about Ulysses ! It's kind of funny: I'm finding it difficult to understand without reading the notes, but I am enjoying it even when I don't understand! The language is just fun--like "reading" Monty Python! Almost done--I'm up to chapter 16!
Dubliners is a great. Can't say the same for Portrait of the Artist and haven't tried Ulysses . Another collection of short stories of place that doesn't get the attention it deserves is Rudyard Kipling's Plain Tales from the Hills. But maybe that is because Kipling is out of favor ...
Trying on two very different sides of literature... Joyce's Ulysses is over 1200 pages (the edition I have at home, at least!). Stephen King's The Stand (the 'expanded' version) is nearly 1000 itself. More or less like Dumas' The Count of Montecristo. In fact, I don't mind if a book is ...
Trying on two very different sides of literature... Joyce's Ulysses is over 1200 pages (the edition I have at home, at least!). Stephen King's The Stand (the 'expanded' version) is nearly 1000 itself. More or less like Dumas' The Count of Montecristo. In fact, I don't mind if a book is ...
... me through and prepared myself by going back and re-reading Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses . Now I can go on "vacation" and read something quick and easy...
In the buginning is the woid, in the muddle is the sound-dance and thereinofter you're in the ...
... also begun Thus Spoke Zarathustra (book 5) but I think it is going to take me some time.
I would also like to finish Ulysses , Trickster Makes This World and Language and Silence (books 6, 7 and 8).
That's plenty for starters.
You'll be fine reading Ulysses as your 75. Count it as two and count your much needed Bloomsday book as well.
It's a much smaller beast then people make it out to be.
We'd have to decide what "last line" means - if it's "last sentence", we would have to give Ulysses a miss...
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I've been away this week, finished Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack and am now enjoying The Mutiny by Julian Rathbone a novel set in the context ...... Oh well, January was a rough month. Maybe I shouldn't have chosen to do 75 books in the year that I'm trying to tackle Ulysses . I loved Olive Kitteridge, though. I rarely re-read books, but I can see myself re-reading this one.
... and the opera would have to be early Puccini -- and who would want to do either, let alone both? Trying to read Ulysses while attending Don Giovanni would be far beyond me. A member of Mensa could do it, though, I bet.
... Vuh - Finnish translation again
Seems this gatecory is getting heavy on old epics.
4. Ulysses Peltirumpu by G Grass
6. Hagakure
7. Bartleby by H Melville
8. For ...
I know I already named something, but I thought of another book: Ulysses . Remember some years ago when some group somewhere voted it the best book ever? I've tried to read it several times, and I just can't get into it. In fact, I got rid of my copy the last time we moved (but regret it now - ...
... the Tub by Swift.
Plus, if you look forward to what Tristrim Shandy highly influenced, you find James Joyce's Ulysses written by one of the more famous authors for screwing with the reader.
But I digress....
The one word pages only occur at the height of tension and last for ...
... I won't go into detail, but one thing that particularly makes me angry is that for years, this was the very best edition of Ulysses available, from the standpoint of the text, which corrected the numerous errors in the early version. The LEC not only published beautifully designed, illustrated ...
... and isn't a good commuter book. I think there may also be a companion book to it out now, like The Bloomsday book is to Ulysses .
Oh, and 100 years from now, when people study literature of the 21st century, they will probably start with this book.
-mistress 'rissa
PS His writing ...
... and isn't a good commuter book. I think there may also be a companion book to it out now, like The Bloomsday book is to Ulysses .
Oh, and 100 years from now, when people study literature of the 21st century, they will probably start with this book.
-mistress 'rissa
PS His writing ...
... I did read a few ridiculous long and hard books it all evens out in the end. Hell, I'm just proud I made it through Ulysses and Infinite Jest.
I had set my goal at 75 knowing that I read more then 50 books a year but not knowing how much more since I've never really kept track before. ...
... its use of snow and a variety of other motifs throughout the novel is not so easy to parse. I feel as I did when I read Ulysses : I need a seminar with an expert to help me unlock the book's meanings. I have dozens of questions and only a handful of answers.
A few more for the library:
Ulysses
The Odyssey
As for contemporary authors, one that comes to mind, though it's a bit of a gamble, would be The Nightmare Factory by Thomas Ligotti since his short fiction draws Borges, as well as Poe and Kafka. (And Lovecraft, who Borges considered ...
... dos Passos
Heavy Sand--Anatoli Rybakov
March
The tango singer--Tomas Eloy Martinez
re-read Ulysses --James Joyce
April
Generations of Winter--Vassily Aksyonov
Suttree--Cormac McCarthy
May
The Savage Detectives--Roberto Bolano--favorit ...
...
I also really liked One hundred years of Solitude, The Name of the Rose, (even if i knew who did it 100 pages in), Ulysses and Trainspotting.
I still have Walden to finish and War and Peace to start by the end of the year.
-mistress 'rissa
...
I also really liked One hundred years of Solitude, The Name of the Rose, (even if i knew who did it 100 pages in), Ulysses and Trainspotting.
I still have Walden to finish and War and Peace to start by the end of the year.
-mistress 'rissa
... 2006, as I know it's late by now, and have since read.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man -- Read Dubliners and Ulysses last year (or year before??), and had meant to read this before that particular year ended, but never found the time. Was kinda a letdown when compared to the ...
... - not sure why I put this in; it was actually more of a novella; but quite good
and . . . drumroll please . . .
Ulysses -- painful painful slog
...
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
and A Bend in the River by Naipaul (?I think thats on the list)
Worst, worst, worst -- Ulysses
Ulysses my copy is the same heft as War and Peace.
Les Miserables which has already been mentioned does scare me. I read War and Peace quite happily when I was 17 (enjoyed it) and when I had finished decided to tackle Les Mis next... well seven boring chapters in all about a priest, I ...
James Joyce Ulysses has parts that cracked me up as did Cervantes'Don Quixote.
... whom, or under what circumstances? Is a work that "lasts" in part because it's assigned in literature or history classes (Ulysses , The Peleponnesian War, The Scarlet Letter) a "classic" in the same sense as one that is widely read outside academe (Pride and Prejudice)?
3) If longevity ...
>9 Not on the same planet with Ulysses , and not even in the same solar system as Finnegans Wake. And "clear, lucid, 18th-century prose" is entirely accurate provided you don't leave out the qualifier "18th-century". If, for example, you don't know what "bubble" meant to an upper-class Englishman ...
... a chronicle play in six scenes and an epilogue by Bernard Shaw
o 823 English fiction - 32 incl. Ulysses by James Joyce
o 824 English essays
o 825 English speeches
o 826 English letters
o 827 English satire & humor
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Ulysses .... *shudder* I tried to read it a year ago and had to stop. Now, I'm being forced to read it? Meh. And who actually finishes Finnegan's Wake? Seriously.
# bukwurm -- I pity you. I slogged through Ulysses this year just to see what all the fuss was about. Painful, IMHO -- only a few redeeming moments in the whole novel.
Finished I, Claudius -- a bit overrated; Ray by Barry Hannah -- WTF!; and have now started the first of Colleen McCull ...
I'm currently trying to get through Ulysses by Joyce, but I have to admit it's a struggle. I've just started The Western Canon by Harold Bloom, and have All the Words, Volume 1 by the Monty Python bunch sitting in the rest room. My wife and I enjoy reading to each other at night. We've ...
Fanny, this is just my take on it, but I think if you try to bluff someone that you've read Ulysses , and you haven't, saying that "its written in a certain style" would be a dead giveaway.
"Surely it's written in many different styles?", they may say, "and what about the chapter in which he ...
... of general knowledge and people can talk about them without having read them. The example he uses is James Joyce's Ulysses , which is allegedly the most commonly owned unread book in all the world. :) He says that most educated people know three things about it - its a riff on Homer ...
... think that appeals more so to men. I certainly liked it (female).
I definately wouldn't be embarrassed not to have read Ulysses . Dreadful; incomprehensible (IMHO)
... red silk... I don't believe it's available in the US...)
I'm still looking for a beautiful copy of War and Peace and Ulysses ...
I got home yesterday evening to discover Ulysses , which I must confess to being kind of excited about. I enjoyed A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man but it was quite developmental somehow, so I'm interested to see where he ended up going.
On a slightly lighter note, A Wrinkle in Time ...
I haven't been put off by the length of a book before. I've loved War and Peace and Ulysses as well as The Stars My Destination and The Demolished Man - two heavy tomes and two quickies.
What gets me about longer science fiction though is that the tendency seems to be to add in as much ' ...
Yeah, 10 years to read Ulysses is a bit much. It took me two months to finish Portrait so that seems a bit exaggerated. Now, War and Peace...maybe.
I did recently make it all the way through Ulysses and I will never read another of his novels. Incredibly frustrating! And it is not as if he were writing about anything profound half the time -- bodily functions, perambulations; masturbation. Personally, I think he needed to get over himself. ...
... the next time I'm in a bookstore and then I'll decide if it is as complicated as that website suggests.
I already have Ulysses on my tbr pile (in English...). Is it as complicated as this? Well, when I think about it, I could just go grab it and have a look...
... and I should only read it at home, in total silence, with no distractions.
My personal theory is that the point of Ulysses is saying "Yes" to life through literature. That's why the first bit is so boring and everyday and that's why the character's revelations are so amazing.
I do ...
... figured a thread on this might be appropriate. As usual with me, I did a tagmash on Dublin, novel -- and came up with:
Ulysses by James Joyce
A portrait of the artist as a young man by James Joyce
Paddy Clarke, ha-ha-ha by Roddy Doyle (a romp of Dublin by a ten-year old ...
Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
Therese Raquin by Emile Zola
Ulysses by James Joyce (atleast according to Dante)
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (perhaps, depending on feelings on adultery)
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Sco ...
... it own set of notes in the back. It's really not a scary book at all.
The same thing is true for Infinite Jest and Ulysses , scary in concept not execution.
The Bronte sister's though? I'd rather have my fingernails pulled off with pliers then read those women. The stuff of freakin' ...
I seem to be Ulysses , because of my vulgarity, which convinces people I am both brilliant and repugnant. Well.
Anyone who follows the "offensive group name" thread knows how well that fits me.
... nearly as much the second time.
Others are:
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
I rarely allow myself the indulgence of rereading books given that there are so many still ...
... book has, by far, stayed with me the longest.
I have had major enthusiasms for Lord of the Rings, James Joyce's Ulysses , Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow.
Frank Herbert's Whipping Star and Dosadi Experiment (more so than Dune).
Actually, some philosophers have ...
I've been slacking on posting. (mostly cos it took me so long to get through the next 2)
44. Ulysses by James Joyce
45.The Bloomsday book : a guide through Ulysses by Harry Blamires
46. Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis
47. Bitchfest : ten years of cultural ...
... is. I'm gonna try it again.
Took it again, but had the same questions, answered the conscience one different and became Ulysses Blah. I want different questions.
... by the Generation of 1898
and the unabridged and unappended reproduction of of James Joyce's 1922 1st edition of Ulysses , originally published by Shakespeare and Company (Paris).
I qualified for free shipping too! :-)
Yes. Get another of Paul de Kock's. Nice name he has.
Ulysses By James Joyce
I'm even worse. I believe I acquired Ulysses sometime in the mid 80s and so far on Bloomsday have only made it up to just past breakfast.
... year...
Whilst cataloguing my books for LT I've come across numerous books with my bookmarks still in them. For example, Ulysses by James Joyce with a London Underground ticket dated 1996.
... are to be believed, there are two separate Everyman's Library editions available of at least some works. For example:
- Ulysses as ISBN 1857151003 (designation "Everyman's Library Classics", 1992, 1076 pages), and as ISBN 0679455132 ("Everyman's Library, 100", 1997, 1136 pages), equally ...
... not just for the things you call literature. It's for books in general, of all types and in all genres—even ages—from Ulysses to Not the Hippopotamus!
I've got the Bol data. It's not so detailed, unfortunately. Proxis' is apparently rather better data.
... you might want to give Saiichi Maruya's historical novel Grass for my Pillow a go. Maruya has translated Ulysses into Japanese, so, though I may seem to be suggesting that Maruya is not on the bleeding edge of the avant-garde, neither is his work formally simple. In fact, Gras ...
... orhouse
Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish, by Seamus Heaney
Irish Chicago, by John Gerard McLaughlin
Ulysses , by James Joyce*
*Speaking of which, did you know that it is the ultimate beach book ?
I only made it to just past the breakfast scene in Ulysses . This was about 15 years ago. One day I do intend to continue the slog.
... and the Deathly Hallows p759
Now with that later bit of disappointing bit of pop reading out of the way, I'm off to read Ulysses .
Deep South : Need help from Faulkner fans (Jul 19, 2007, 8:40pm)
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Anyway, things are getting better -- I am not entirely convinced I like this 'modernist' genre. I felt this way about Ulysses too. What is the allure in making your writing SO opaque? It frustrates me.
The good news about Ulysses is that it is only really difficult about a third of the time. The even better news is that even the really difficult parts are quite understandable the second time you read them.
My opinion is that the stream of consciousness elements are the weakest parts of ...
How did looking up those things influence or effect your reading of Ulysses ?
That makes one of us. I read the first 15 pages of Ulysses the other day and had two pages of things to look up.
Ulysses , A portrait of the artist as a young man
Moby Dick
Tarzan of the Apes and many more Burroughs
The annotated Sherlock Holmes; the four novels and the fifty-six short stories complete
Player Piano and several other early Vonneguts
... etc.) and of course this will vary in the context/era/setting -- so some readers today may not feel that Joyce's Ulysses reflects how real people speak, or Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting for that matter, if they have never been to Dublin or Glasgow; just as it may be difficult for ...
... correlated to the discussion at hand. Ginsberg's Howl, Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, Lenny Bruce, James Joyce's Ulysses and Hustler magazine have all been called obscene at some point or another. Are they? Are they pornographic? What is obscenity?
>But surely we can recognize ...
... Gaddis' style. He gave up about forty pages in.
Readerville is reading Ulysses starting yesterday, so I may finally get around to that now.
... prevents many people from getting to Absalom at all, in the same way that people who have a passing acquaintance with Ulysses don't even attempt Finnegan's Wake (yes, that would be me).
I remember that the story "Two Soldiers" was in one of my high school readers, but I suspect it may ...
... myself I should go back and read them again, but there are so many other enjoyable books out there to read. I too tried Ulysses and could barely get started. Dickens generally bores me to tears also.
... books that belonged to my mother and that she wrote her name in, The Complete Sherlock Holmes and a first US edition of Ulysses .
Ulysses by James Joyce was a toughy back when I had to read it in grad school. More recently I had problems with the second half of Tracy Kidder's Mountains beyond Mountains. The first half of the book was fantastic! The second, torturous.
... spent on leisure reading and needlework, so when I was reading for leisure I certainly didn't want to attack something like Ulysses .
I can understand the need to choose something pleasurable but still mentally nourishing. Life is full of things we have to slog through like dishes and laundry. Wo ...
... mapping fictional events. Examples would be tracking Leopold Bloom on a map as he wanders around Dublin (my home town) in Ulysses , or tracking Sal and Dean through US and Mexico in On The Road.
Think this would throw up really interesting data - most popular locations for setting novels, ...
It would be hard to beat the last sentence of Ulysses -- but it's maybe a bit long to count as a "last line".
... where both time and reality are suspect, and the object of the journey is never clear. The book reminds me of both Ulysses and Gravity’s Rainbow, in that it’s a multi-layered, myth-like tale. The difference, for me, is that the characters here are human and compelling, very well ...
... the teacher was going to have to be given CPR.
Have we put James Joyce on the spit yet? I have valiantly tackled Ulysses several times but can't get past the first 20 pages, if that. I keep hearing Virginia Woolf murmuring, "what complete tosh," her verdict of the book. Part of me ...
#41 While I accept Ulysses is modernist, it was not at the tail-end of modernism. 1922 could be seen as the peak modernism, with The Waste Land also being published, ushering in the true period of modernism literature in English. For example, leading modernist authors like Virginia Woolf ...
... written." Partially true. Is 120 Days of Sodom well written? I know that most of the other books are well written (except Ulysses cant make head nor tail of Joyce).
... is banned from a school library, the faculty of a school are saying: "Harry Potter or Uncle Tom's Cabin or James Joyce's Ulysses or Call of the Wild or The Bible are somehow dangerous and are not going to be available to students on this campus."
So, fine. If you want to defend that ...
... night of the last Harry Potter release party, I would take one of the clearly marked Potter boxes, fill it with copies of Ulysses and reseal it.
I can't imagine the sound of all those fans gasping in horror of the first box being opened and filled with the wrong books.
... look since they are highly regarded by the complilers of the list.
MODERN LIBRARY ALTERNATIVE LIST
THE ONES I KEPT
1. Ulysses by James Joyce
2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man by James Joyce
4. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
5. Brave ...
... in Homer.
I have read it every 5 years or so since 1948. It gets better all the time.
See if you can rent the movie Ulysses made in Ireland. It's wonderful.
... killed during the purges.
Andrei Bely - famous for his experimental, lyrical work St. Petersburg, which predated Ulysses by several years.
Yuri Olyesha - satirist, children's authors, best known for The Three Fat Men: A novel for children and Envy.
Ilya Ilf and Evge ...
... humor or lightness of Dickens in David Copperfield:
My number one pick for delicious morsel writer is James Joyce in Ulysses . In New York, on June 16, (Bloomsday), actors read the book non-stop, and it is broadcast on the radio. You can hear every delicious morsel and each year you feel ...
I finally finished Ulysses -- good riddance; definately a slog for me with only a few enjoyable parts. I will give him an "A" for effort though; and I don't think I'll soon forget the experience.
Needed lighter fare, so I am about ~ 100 pgs into The Boleyn Inheritence. So far not as good ...
... So I guess reading time is based on commitment and your stamina as a reader. If you take a stab at it like its a modern Ulysses you should be fine.
I just finished Mercy by Jodi Picoult -- Lifetime movie of the week on paper. Still reading Ulysses ; on weekends only, when I can concentrate. I should finish this weekend! While I don't hate it; I am definately ready to be finished.
I thought I am the Messsenger was cute, and bizarre; but ...
113: It may be cheating, but there is a wonderful Irish film of Ulysses . If you could get it, I'm sure it would help. You would have a vivid picture in your mind of the scenes in the book. Also, the acting is wonderful. I'm sorry I don't remember the names of the actors or the director, but I ...
... Winthrop Woman is on my TBR list. So I may be a convert -- too early to tell.
I am still dutifully plugging away at Ulysses -- page 400 or so. I don't hate it. I am sure this isn't an original thought as I am no literary scholar - but as soon as I accepted it as an epic poem as opposed ...
... I find that more and more appealing.
>57 jhowell, you're a better being than I am. At least six tries at reading Ulysses since 1975, none successful and all ending with me bellowing at the book, "STOP BEING SO CONSARNED CLEVER!!" (language cleaned up) Tiresome.
edited/typo
... the way -- Who the hell is Yackle? Anyone figure that one out?
Speaking of figuring it out -- I read about #300 pgs of Ulysses this weekend. (party girl that I am.) I think I am finally getting (some of) it.
I finished Saturday my Ian McEwan and I started Ulysses over the weekend.
Ulysses is very, very difficult to follow. I wouldn't call it 'enjoyable,' but at times rewarding and fascinating. Armed only with my dim wits, Wikipedia, and on-line 'Spark notes' -- it is a daunting task.
... admired Henry Perowne, or at least expected us to be sympathetic to him. Not sure I felt like that.
I read 80 pgs of Ulysses today. I am following ~ 75% at most. 25% utter bewilderment!
... in much the same way Joyce did, however, they both experimented with artistic modes of their times. While Joyce's Ulysses might be thought of as a Cubist or surrealistic masterpiece, James can be thought of as a pointilist. James creates a complete portrait out of many, many, ...
jhowell, I really liked McEwan's 1997 novel Enduring Love a lot, and I agree that diving right in to Ulysses is about a good a way as any to take it on, much luck.
... his older stuff. Any suggestions?
My plan today, at long last, with much prevarication and possibly dread, is to start Ulysses . I am just going to jump right in. Wish me luck.
ReJoyce. Ummm....... Sounds like something I'd do after bathing at Baxter's.
Actually, I enjoyed Ulysses , thought A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was slow in spots, and thought Dubliners was uneven. It's been a while since I read any Joyce and when I get Ulysses catalogued ...
... a lot from them, others are simply light en entertaining, just the right book for a holiday... for example, just place Ulysses next to Jurassic Park... (I might need to add that I rated Ulysses a lot higher than I would ever rate any book comparable to Jurassic Park). If rating where ...
Ulysses is on my TBR shelf; I am gearing up. I see ithuriel's suggestion for a companion read. In general do those of you who have read it think I should purchase some sort of 'cliff notes' or just jump right in of my own accord?
I have never read anything by Joyce, am American, and have never ...
... mais j'ai vite arrêté.
Par ailleurs, parmi tous mes amis, j'ai en très rarement trouvé qui étaient parvenus à lire Ulysse . Pour moi, c'est vraiment le type du livre que je ne peux pas lire, même quelques pages. Et vous ?
... Man are a feast.
For the more literary type, I HIGHLY recommend Fun Home by Alison Bechdel. (It got me to reread Ulysses !
Blankets is a touching memoir of growing pains.
And I liked Black Hole by Charles Burns.
... your "family."
I have read and loved alot of the above. Johnathan Strange, War and Peace, The Dark Tower series. And Ulysses and The Secret History are sitting on my shelf.
I am reading a great big book currently --From Here to Eternity by James Jones. (#835 pgs) About life in the ...
This year I'm starting (and this time finishing) Infinate Jest by David Foster Wallace. I'm planning on reading Ulysses by James Joyce and I'm always up for a nice long Russian piece.
(If finished the new translation of Life and Fate in January but since I read most of it in Dec ...
... in it...the whole thing seems flakier and flakier to me, but still fun to read about. And now I have a dog-eared copy of Ulysses staring me down as well (two bucks at the used bookstore!). So that's the current docket.
...
What of his work have you read?
Were his experiments in stream-of-thought successful?
Are you able to slog through Ulysses ? Do you even consider it a slog?
Do you mind the vulgarity in some of his work?
What do you think of his earlier work as compared to his later work?
I'm just finishing up War and Peace, so that's my first. The other 4 will be Ulysses , The History of Western Philosophy, Dead Souls, & The Death and Life of Great American Cities. And probably there'll be more than that.
... but it seems on par with most of us here.
I have Great Expectations, Madame Bovary, A Bend in the River, Ulysses and Family Matters on my TBR bookshelf right now.
I confess I started but couldn't finish The Brothers Karmazov and Middlemarch -- but that was in my ...
I ditto the enjoyment of Ulysses . I read it with a companion book that was basically a book of footnotes. Information about various things Joyce was referencing. I'd read a chapter, then read through the companion book. It was fascinating. I'm hoping to read it again someday!
Ulysses is well worth the headaches, IMO. Haven't read the other. Stick with the Joyce. It's certainly memorable and definitely great literature.
Does this look right to you? Is it a kids version of Ulysses ?
http://www.lovereading.co.uk/book/0746052006/isbn
... Chronicles, Rant Chuck Palahniuk's new proof (hardcover out in May) rereading of A Season in Hell, by Rimbaud, Ulysses by Joyce and anything gory and squalled that I can get my grubby little mitts on.
Happy reading!! And good luck to everyone else!
-The Mistress
... a prequel to Jane Eyre; Mary Reilly, which tells the story of Jekyll & Hyde from the point of the maid; and, of course, Ulysses which is the Odyssey transposed to Dublin.
The under-rated Emma Tennant almost specialises in sequels, alternatives, & take-offs on classic novels. She is ...
... afternoon, after whipping through Strip Jack in an afternoon. I'm daunted by the heaped praise reviews and comparisons to Ulysses , but I've read his later novels and shan't be put off. I have a feeling it will take a lot of concentration; I've been reading quickly, for instant gratification ...
... class citizen because he or she hasn't read certain books. I'm sure I'm a second class citizen myself for not having read Ulysses . :-)
What I'm suggesting is that those who avoid books which may call for more time and a different level of concentration than, for example, the mysteries that ...
... Btw, I've read and liked 7 of the 10, and have begun to think that I ought to try the other 3. I'm glad they didn't pick Ulysses . I've always balked at that one --- figured that I'd need 6 or 8 other books to help make sense of it. :-)
... Twins, which I needed so I could read the rest of the series. Then I went to the library and got 3 more. A nice copy of Ulysses and a brand new copy of Sula for 10 cents. I was very excited, especially about the Ulysses since I have that one on my Amazon wish list(I already read it in e-bo ...
It doesn't feel like Lewis Carroll to me: more like Ulysses rewritten by Jasper Fforde in the style of the Futurological Congress.
... by Alan Moore
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Ulysses by James Joyce
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Honorable Mentions: 1984 by George Orwell and Aurelia by Gerard de N ...
... It tops several of the best English language novels of all time lists so I thought it would be Great-er. I am afraid of Ulysses which is also on the tops of those infernal lists -- I am afraid I will either hate it, be baffled, or bored.
I agree Barb about the last few Scarpettas -- Horrib ...
... that i think about it more, a couple "proto-Burroughs" works to consider: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, Ulysses by James Joyce (and though i haven't read Finnegans Wake yet, from what i know ABOUT it, it probably is even moreso...)
... Some I've owned since the 1970s have bookmarks stuck in them at odd places from attempts to finish things I loathed (eg, Ulysses ) and others have beckoned me after many years to books I've grown to love (eg, Mrs. Dalloway) that I might never have gone back to on my own.
The Rice family ...
... Midnight's Children by Rushdie; and Disgrace by Coatzee on my bookshelf for 2007. I also promised myself I would give Ulysses a go too.
dchaikin -- The border trilogy is difficult but worth it. SamHouston keep Them by Joyce Carol Oates on the shelf. Painful, disjointed, just not ...
... are you morally obliged to have read Ulysses ?
Personally, I think if you're *human* you ought to have read Ulysses , but those of us who live in Dublin have a particular obligation to the book, in my opinion. I love walking around the city and being reminded of particular episodes of the ...
... somewhere decided that they would publish a list of the world's greatest books (or something to that effect). Anyway, Ulysses was on top of the list. Being an English teacher type, I thought I should read this to be completely educated. Well, I don't know if anyone else out there has ...
... cultural oppression. With the strangehold that Catholic church had on Ireland it was impossible to publish something like Ulysses - it probably wouldn't have been that easy to publish it in mainland Britain or the US either. The continent offered freedom from a culture that was stifling him, ...
... Joyce is Ireland's favourite literary son, but spent much time out of the country, including some of the time he wrote Ulysses , which is touted as a biography of early twentieth century Dublin. Malcolm Lowry is, in my opinion, the author that best displays a sense of 'Englishness', ...
... by Dostoevsky
Germinal by Zola
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Marquez
Hamlet by Shakespeare
Ulysses by Joyce
The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
The Recognitions by Gaddis
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Song of Solomon by Morrison
...
... to tell a story then why do they put elements in their work that can be misconstrued. Is it by accident that Joyce's Ulysses mirrors Homer's work? What is Umberto Eco playing at in The Name of the Rose, with nods to Sherlock Holmes, and Borges, etc?
It strikes me that in ...
... though (and I'm not talking about Faulkner or Woolf here):
First, I have trouble with Joyce. I didn't mind Ulysses but The Dubliners, etc. were just not happening for me. Second, I really cannot stand Dickens. I have no idea why; apparently he's not a problem for most ...
... think its also a fair question to ask just how much the actual war affected the artists who were driving modernism. Would Ulysses have been written without it? Some signs point to yes some to no.
What Chinese and Japanese poets do you refer to? Do you know how much of those poets Pound ...
... Prejudice by Jane Austen, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.
Also, Ulysses by James Joyce, David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, and Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray.
If you think about it, there are sooooo many ...
... with jacket design and type fonts! I thought we might start a list of our top five or so cover designs! Mine are:
1. Ulysses
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1404336877.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg
2. Long
Day's Journey into Night
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0300093055.01._SX50_SCMZ ...
... include impressionist works, which were just too early in the development of modernism to become the kind of archetype that Ulysses (or The Wasteland ) would be for literature. I'm sure there are others that can be added, just as there are with literature.
... the movement. Is there a particular artist or work that can be described as archetypal for modernism, in the same way that Ulysses is often considered the archetypal modernist novel?
... with the flavor of a very lively contemporary movement. It's a much better way to survey, I think, than diving into, say Ulysses or the Cantos. Note that this is relatively late into the modernist movement, but criticism and translations of earlier work get included, as well as some work I ...
... because they are so old. (I have a few of them in my own library, like my grandmother's copy of the first US edition of Ulysses which includes the judge's decision to allow it to be printed here, and my grandfather's Complete Sherlock Holmes which I first read when I was 11 or 12 and had ...
I have tried Ulysses more than once, and I just can't do it. I know it's supposed to be the greatest book of all time (in someone's opinion anyway), but I sure don't see how.
I had to read a lot of Faulkner in college, only because I had to. His sentences are way too long for me!
I like the idea. However:
Ulysses is read and taught at upper school/university level, so many people who have bought and read it didn't do so for pleasure. Harry Potter is often given as a birthday or Christmas present, even to those who detest the series, because it's the kind of book ...
I guess what I'm thinking of is something we could call the "Ulysses Factor" or the "Readability Ratio." Ulysses is about the 80th most commonly owned work (49th in fiction), which is a mark in its favor, and it has an aggregate rating of 4 Stars, which is again a mark in its favor. But if you ...
... that many readers find his style idiosyncratic in the extreme, and that's putting it mildly. But I also find James Joyce's Ulysses , which we are told is the greatest novel of the 20th century, somewhat of a bore. So don't be too hard on yourself if a "classic" doesn't hold your interest, or if ...
... of poetry, as well as Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Exiles in full, plus extracts from Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake. Only 25c. Some people may legitimately question the relative pricing.
... but Joyce sometimes took advantage of Stuart Gilbert's earnestness to send him on wild goose (gans) chases for sources re. Ulysses - have you looked at the Mahabharata - a very important source. In some respects the process seems to have gone into reverse with Joyce's endless layering in Finneg ...
I like Allende. I love Infinite Jest, Ulysses , If On A Winter's Night A Traveler, and Tristram Shandy, but while I've read and somewhat enjoyed Rushdie I can't somehow feel comfortable with any of his books to the point where I'd call them favourites or re-read them if something ...
... rite of fiction, Hugh Kenner, Flaubert, Joyce and Beckett, The Stoic Comedians, and Ezra Pound's 1922 review of Ulysses 'James Joyce et Pecuchet'.
... an imitation of Garcia Marquez.
I love the notion of the postmodern novel NOT being limited to the late 20th century. Ulysses is obviously postmod. I'll take Tristan Shandy too. Other non-twentieth century postmods?
Vollmann's Europe Central is on my to-read list. John Barth is a ...
... are other than just artists - neatly summarised by Joyce when asked by one smitten fan if he could kiss the hand that wrote Ulysses Joyce replied, 'No - it's done a lot of other things as well'.
Flaubert, the novelist that Joyce admired most of all and whose favourite novel was Bouvard and Pe ...
I'm going to take a different spin on this: at your age I was reading Ulysses by James Joyce for the first time. I have read it several tens of times since and shall never tire of it. You are not too young to start it - the best, uncontested.
I have copies of Finnegan's Wake, Ulysses , and Dubliners.
... most of it might be irrelevant, but it might be fun to see the sorts of books tagged "unread" -- eg how many people own Ulysses against those that have actually read it!)
This would be an important improvement to make in what seems like a terrific resource for people who love books. I ...
Sounds like an awesome experience. I participated in a reading of Ulysses for the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday. I only read for a half an hour of closed to 37. Hopefully, I'll remember this event for next year and try and plan for it.
... Anna Karenina, which is spectacularly great, and next comes The Brothers Karamazov, which I'm looking forwards to, and Ulysses , which I'm not.
When I feel like I need a break from one of these big books, I pick up a play (most recently Jules Feiffer's Little Murders), graphic novel ...
... do? I reread Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man first. And now I'm halfway through a third reading of Ulysses , using the great Ulysses Annotated for help.
On the fun side, I'm reading Love in the Time of Cholera. I love Gabriel Garcia Marquez! I've read several ...
... do? I reread Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man first. And now I'm halfway through a third reading of Ulysses , using the great Ulysses Annotated for help.
On the fun side, I'm reading Love in the Time of Cholera. I love Gabriel Garcia Marquez! I've read several ...
... of Lot 49.
A couple other tags of possible interest are "unfinished":
# Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (12)
# Ulysses (8)
# The Silmarillion (8)
# A brief history of time : from the big bang to black holes (7)
# Don Quixote (7)
# Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of ...
... the most daunting of these films (I spent about 15 hours watching FIVE hippo-sized films by D.W. Griffith) than to get Ulysses under your belt, so I have been progressing much more quickly in that project than with my 1001 books. I am watching the films in chronological order, to the best ...
... and intolerant; just how important his brief interlude with Bloom is. This, above all else, is the most important scene in Ulysses that was, frankly, being utterly ignored in the early years, the greatest argument (as Stanley Sultan has phrased it) of the book. From the perspective of Dedalu ...
Classy. Anyway, Ulysses is probably my favourite book ever (it’s the only one I feel comfortable giving 5 stars out of 5), but I do think I’m a bit too respectful of it. I’ll usually read anything anywhere, but Ulysses is the one book I think deserves special attention: I must read it in ...
Most truly great writers are funny -
Ulysses
The Trial
Tristram Shandy
At swim two birds
Murphy
Gerald's Party
Mulligan stew
Herzog
see what I mean?
Personally, my copy of Ulysses is dog-eared and marked up so much ... Damn! I LOVE that book!
I splurged and bought the 40-CD audio book this year so I can listen to it while I'm on the road (though I find myself checking the printed book while I'm tooling down the expressway ... who needs ...
The name was a pun on "Miami Vice." I wrinkled my brow when I first heard it as well, but considering the puns in Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake, I think it is more than appropriate.
... wasn't that some haven't catalogued their Joyce books because as of this morning, even though there were 8 owners, Ulysses didn't show up at all on the unweighted list even though it had more owners than any other book in our combined libraries. At the moment, there are now 9 of us who ...
... by Anthony Burgess.
mckeown - No, I've never been to a conference (what a strange name for the Miami one). I took a Ulysses grad school seminar, but that's it.
As for Joyce not showing up in our shared books, I now see Ulysses at #41 of the weighted list (it lists 8 of us owning ...
5/8 in this group have this work (1,245 LT copies total): Ulysses . I'm baffled.
And I have Ulysses and 2 copies of Finnegan's Wake
... the Joyce group, none of his works show up in the shared list? Not even the unweighted version. I've got four copies of Ulysses alone. Do I need to loan them out? ;)
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75. Ulysses by James Joyce 
Ulysses by James Joyce
: Ulysses by James Joyce
Fiction
816 pages
I don't really know what to say—perhaps: I "read" all of it, "got" maybe half of it, "liked" less than a ...
