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... 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 maybe 5 years ago. That was the second time I read it through cover-to-cover; the first time was 9 or 10 years ago. The last time I read it, I interspersed its chapters ... ... 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
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