/lit/ - Literature

>>6119954
how is he a hack if you admit that even if Finnegans Wake is incoherent garbage he had an extremely successful literary career up to that point

>>4980728
same OP, I'd punch your fist in a friendly way while you punched mine.

Just read it actually. I thought it got progressively better throughout and I was really sad when to finish it.

So the reviews pretty bad:

Stephen Hackman - "Well it's a shame because that Jimmy Joyce he had a knack for phrasemaking - blarney they call it - and no one could ever accuse him of over-reliance on the playsafe deracinated obfuscations and tergiversations of disproportionately latinate diction, so I like the part about the cow ("moo": delightful!) and would prefer it to any possible talk of quadrupedal lactifers yessir. De gustibus non est disputandum, however, as the Romans said.

Speaking of which, because I was raised Lutheran, I didn't get all the Catholic stuff. I figured you people just went to confession and moved on. My people just sing loud, eat sausage, and grow fat, as unnameable torment and self-loathing eat away at our heartvalves: how would you like them apples huh?

All in all, I was glad this book was short and will now go on to Ulysses, as I enjoy things Greek, with reasonable exceptions, being of German extraction. Thank you.

Having written my review, I turn my back, aware of my misprision of lactifer, but comforted by my error's Latin heritage."

But even worse is the comment section:

Spike - "I have not read this book yet and am deciding wether I should right now. This is probably a good review, but I am hoping there are some things the reviewer could help clarify.
What do you mean when you refer to Joyce as McJoyce?"

E. Easterling - "Spike - I wouldn't waste my time trying to interpret this review. Helpful votes for Mr Hackman's reviews are quite sparse."

Stephen Hackman - "Yes. Oh, how I long to be one of the popular kids. I will pause only to take note of your effete and precious use of "quite." Just the sort of thing one expects. More briefly: bite me."