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Mar 28, 2009
Dan | The Ancient Reader
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Good books should participate in a "conversation" with each other, and with us when we read them. I made the mistake of inviting Joyce - via Ulysses - to join my literary conversation. He's not much of a conversationalist. He mostly just sat in a corner mumbling incoherently to himself. Every once in a while he'd quote - or try to ridicule - something he'd read somewhere, but that's not really conversation is it? More like namedropping.
Buried within Joyce's verbosity is something similar to a pl ...more
Buried within Joyce's verbosity is something similar to a pl ...more
ETA: Here is the problem I had with this book in a nutshell. It meant nothing to me! It was a humongous pain to read. Even if an object of art is well done and executed with talent, you do
not
have to like it.
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I am NOT rating this book but merely indicating my personal reaction to it. If you were to ask me to quickly respond to the question if I liked the book or not, my response would have to be no. That is why I am giving it one star.
The book is about one day in the li ...more
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I am NOT rating this book but merely indicating my personal reaction to it. If you were to ask me to quickly respond to the question if I liked the book or not, my response would have to be no. That is why I am giving it one star.
The book is about one day in the li ...more
My Ulysses reread after 20 years. And still rockin' solid read.
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I am proofing this book (P2) for DP-Canada and it'll be published by Faded Page.
From BBC Radio 4:
In a landmark project a new dramatisation of Ulysses is broadcast across one day - morning, afternoon and evening. With live commentary from Mark Lawson, broadcasting from Dublin it celebrates the greatest Modernist novel of the twentieth century on the day on which it is set - 16th June.
The dramatisation, by Robin Brooks, follows the novel’s two iconic characters, Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus a ...more
From BBC Radio 4:
In a landmark project a new dramatisation of Ulysses is broadcast across one day - morning, afternoon and evening. With live commentary from Mark Lawson, broadcasting from Dublin it celebrates the greatest Modernist novel of the twentieth century on the day on which it is set - 16th June.
The dramatisation, by Robin Brooks, follows the novel’s two iconic characters, Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus a ...more
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Amanda
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it was amazing
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