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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Yep.
It's shite.
And not just the trendy kinda shite... it's over long, meandering, self indulgent and worst of all left me feeling bored and cold.
Joyce MAY have been a literary genius, but he was no story teller. |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
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I personally would never be enticed to read it cover to cover as it doesn't suit my style of learning; I suspect that in certain circles it is regarded as de rigueur to say that you have read it.
Bloom's Day attracts, in my opinion, a particular class or category of person, whom I would not be enticed to meet: straw boaters, dickie bows, etc.
Joyce himself is very highly regarded in esteemed academic literary circles: he is exceptionally perceptive about the human condition. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Yep.
It's shite.
And not just the trendy kinda shite... it's over long, meandering, self indulgent and worst of all left me feeling bored and cold.
Joyce MAY have been a literary genius, but he was no story teller."
Obviously never read Dubliners or a portrait of the artist as a young man. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Yep.
It's shite.
And not just the trendy kinda shite... it's over long, meandering, self indulgent and worst of all left me feeling bored and cold.
Joyce MAY have been a literary genius, but he was no story teller.
Obviously never read Dubliners or a portrait of the artist as a young man. "
Dubliners, no. Portrait, yes.
Portrait was the better of the two in my humble opinion, but I dislike art that seems impenetrable to a general audience. |
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I’d rather pull my own teeth than attempt to go back into that book.
Brilliant stage adaptations and punctuation-less soliloquys are brilliant but a horrendously tedious read. Painful. And I’ve read tomes on the Ottomans and Boars. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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I've started a few times over the years but never got far.
Makes me wonder is it just attractive to those who actually saw the Emperor's New Clothes 
And you would wonder, was he on some heavy gear all through??? |
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Got to break it into the episodes, one at a time... take a break with each one. It’s really rich with the language and the Dublin slang and “accents” in it are great. Worth getting through just to say you’ve read it.... far more doable than “Finnegan’s Wake”.... |
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