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MaCa
Pickpick

author is a high school teacher of English-the bio endearingly records that he coaches soccer too-which means he's able to pitch this complex novel to the general reader. More guides to difficult novels should be written by high school teachers! Thoroughly useful and a welcome addition to the Joyce bookshelf for those of us who have struggled with Joyce's dense prose

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Jen2
Ulysses | James Joyce
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Pickpick

Really enjoyed the narrator‘s accent but I have no idea what happened!

dabbe This book and Finnigan‘s Wake scare me to death! 😂 1mo
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Bibliobear
Selected Letters of James Joyce | James Joyce, Richard Ellmann
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“There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.“

Remembering James Joyce on his birthday.

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michellelav
Ulysses | James Joyce
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Bailedbailed

Guyyyssss, I tried SO hard to get through this book but I‘m 9hrs in out of 42 and I just can‘t do it 😭 it‘s on my scratch off poster so I was trying so hard to get it done but I‘m so lost, bored and just keep zoning out. And that‘s with a website guide for each book 🙃 You win some, you lose some 🤷🏻‍♀️

TieDyeDude Scratch it off, you tried! 3mo
michellelav @TieDyeDude I did, I‘m not trying that one again 😂 3mo
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TheEllieMo
Ulysses | James Joyce
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After 5 months of reading, I finished this one in June, which was otherwise a very disappointing reading month for me 😔, so despite being tricky to read and mostly bonkers, this one is my #12BooksOf2023 choice.

@Andrew65

Andrew65 A classic! 3mo
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Andrea313
Finnegans Wake | James Joyce
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This story popping up in my feed today was a delight. I especially love the no-nonsense group leader insisting, "It wasn‘t like I saw God. It wasn‘t a big deal.” ?

Read all about it:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/finnegans-wake-james-joyce-book-club-2...

LeahBergen That sounds excruciating 😂 4mo
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WildAlaskaBibliophile
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ShyBookOwl
Finnegans Wake | James Joyce
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Came across this in the news and HAD to share 😅 Has anyone here read Finnegans Wake?? Did it take TWENTY-EIGHT years!!? That's commitment.

JamieArc I kind of read it? I took a James Joyce class in university. It‘s such gibberish though that I understood nothing. 4mo
Ruthiella I read it, but like @JamieArc , I understood virtually nothing. But I had to cross it off my list. I can‘t imagine reading it with such intensity like this group did. 4mo
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ShyBookOwl @Ruthiella 😬 I see the ebook is only $1, and am tempted to check it out, but I don't think I have the discipline or time to really go for it lol 4mo
GondorGirl I took a Joyce seminar in college and the professor (who was a Joyce scholar) admitted that he's never managed to finish Finnigan's Wake. It's the only lit class I ever dropped... 😅 4mo
ShyBookOwl @GondorGirl Wooooww 🤣 4mo
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squirrelbrain
Finnegans Wake | James Joyce
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Love this article from The Guardian!

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/12/california-venice-book-club-finnge...

Particularly this bit…. 🤣

Fialka, who started the group in his early 40s, is now 70. “I don‘t want to lie, it wasn‘t like I saw God,” Fialka said, of reaching the book‘s end. “It wasn‘t a big deal.”

TrishB I just read this too! Some perseverance there! 5mo
squirrelbrain Did you see the Orwell article too? @TrishB I seem to recall you didn‘t love the book anyway. 5mo
Ddzmini 🤣🤣🤣 5mo
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TrishB I did and would totally agree with the criticisms tbh. I enjoyed the horror article too esp as I‘m in the middle of reading one of the Argentinian authors. 5mo
squirrelbrain I don‘t think I‘ll bother with the Orwell book @TrishB 5mo
Ruthiella I read it with an online group on Goodreads and it took about a year. I got absolutely nothing from it, except maybe the answer to a pub quiz some day! 5mo
BarbaraBB This is so funny. I read Ulysses a few years ago and decided I‘ll never try Finnegan‘s Wake! 5mo
TrishB No I wouldn‘t really recommend on reflection! 5mo
squirrelbrain Only a year?! @ruthiella 5mo
squirrelbrain I‘ve still to try Ulysses @BarbaraBB …. One day! 5mo
Ruthiella I just read the words without trying to comprehend. I also read a reader‘s guide. It was almost all gobbledygook to me. (edited) 5mo
BarbaraJean On the one hand, I love this level of passion. On the other, there‘s this: “[Joyce] once described the perfect reader of Finnegans Wake as ‘suffering from an ideal insomnia,‘ and said: ‘The demand I make of my reader is that he should devote his entire life to reading my works.‘” Hahahaha nope. 😂 5mo
squirrelbrain @BarbaraJean - can you imagine devoting your life to reading *any* author‘s works, never mind one so difficult to read as Joyce?! Not for me! 5mo
Leniverse This just reinforces my impression from reading Joyce's other works, that the man himself must have been insufferable. 5mo
LeahBergen 😆😆 5mo
SamAnne Visited Dublin this summer. Grabbing lunch at the pub Wilde frequented, ran into a group of passionate (obsessive?) Ulysses devotees. They curate the apothecary across the street where Joyce was a customer and bought the lemon soap mentioned in Ulysses. Now it is a shrine to Joyce and they host daily out loud readings in multiple languages. I‘ve not read it, but at least had my copy of Dubliners along! 5mo
squirrelbrain @SamAnne - people certainly seem to get rather obsessed don‘t they?! 5mo
sarahbarnes 😆😆😆 5mo
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RowReads1
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It‘s humongous! I first read Ulysses in my late teens-early twenties 🥰. Not this edition. I‘m thrilled to add it to my collection. It‘s a coffee table book. It might just crack the coffee table.

batsy That looks amazing. 4mo
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