/lit/ - Literature

Please just read the recognitions. It's amazing.

>>8568674
Forget judging a book by it's cover, this guy is judging everything this author wrote by one word...

>>8513700
A solid plan. I dont believe that there is a single person who has gotten from Ulysses all that Joyce put In it.

>you can never do wrong by believing the victim even if against all odds their accusations prove to be false because all you did as a bystander is believe a vulnerable person
>if you want to hear both sides you are falling into abusers hands!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Uc5eNNG60o

>>8459849
I'm about to finish the Oxford edition and I don't consiter myself a very intelligent person but it's helped immensely. If your really into it (which you should be if your reading Ulysses) you'll be looking up stuff online and trying to soak up as much info as possible as you go. The annotations in the Oxford edition are great. My only gripe with the Oxford edition Is that it's the 1922 text, which sounds novel, but really isn't. There are corrections in the end notes but it would of been nice if they were just correct as you read them.

Ultimately I don't think there is an edition of Ulysses with as extensive endnotes as the Oxford edition as well as all the corrections that were later made. If I'm wrong someone please tell me what that edition is.

>>8436938
Ya I think on a re-read I might grab a corrected edition (possibly gablers unless someone would like to convince me otherwise) and read it alongside annotated Ulysses or some other extensive notes. At the end of the day though I am loving the Oxford worlds classics edition.

Last time I saw this chart lit was one of the top four...

8, half of which is Vonnegut :P.

I recently finished if on a winter's night a traveller and it's definitely my favorite book I've ever read, any recs?

>>8171475
It's not that it's a huge struggle. Granted some chapters slam me harder than others, I just sort of lost motivation.

I finished the book thief and I know people on this board probably universally hate it (main character has virtually no personality traits) but it made me cry like a baby

Read Lolita for sure, who cares what other people will think, you will never see them again. Also Lolita is amazing and if you have it in front of you I have to urge you to read it.

Also I just read tcol49. I don't really know what to think, it wasn't nearly as hard to grasp as I had been led to believe and if gravity's rainbow is as tough as people say than tcol49 is hardly a necessary prerequisite. I can't shake this feeling I have that it would make a better movie than novel, which is weird because I've never thought that about a book before.