/lit/ - Literature

>Favorite chapter: Sirens
>Least favorite chapter: Penelope
So a lot of people have been recommending this book for some time, and I finally got around to reading it. Now, I don't know if I just got filtered or something, but I'm not sure what I was supposed to get out of it.
The prose of course was excellent for the most part. For many of the chapters it felt like I was reading poetry. But for a book as long as this, Joyce's style started to wear thin for me. By time I got to Circe, I was ready for the book to be done.
And as far as the themes go, it just seems like Joyce was posing a lot of questions but never really providing any sort of conclusion. Which perhaps was the point, but it certainly did not make for a satisfying read. At least for me anyways.
But what did you all think about it? Personally, it wasn't my cup of tea, and I likely won't pick it up again unless /lit/ does a read along.

Finally tackling The Big One. Mulligan is very entertaining; the part where they come out of the tower and he starts randomly beating the tall bushes and saying "Down, sir. How dare you, sir," made me giggle for some reason.

Is his theory on Hamlet correct? Because he unironically convinced me...

do people take this novel seriously? I read all of Ulysses across 2 college seminars nearly 5 years ago. It took about 10 months to get through it. At times it took hours to get through a single page just to research and parse out, whatever the fuck JJ was trying to say. There were sections in multiple languages. Sections were read aloud in class. I listened to passages I didn't understand on records to try to hear the poetry of it.

When I finished the class I threw my very dog eared, highlighted book into the trash. It was a tortuous experience. I stopped reading for a few years afterward. I didn't finish another book until Harry Potter came out and it was absolutely the reading cure I needed after slogging through that pretentious, dense, word-salad book.

Describe the "plot" of this absolute shitshow, please. Be as detailed as possible. Anyone who can divine more than a paragraph of content is a lying ass. Also the Jew loving and scat shit really pisses me off

I've just finished re-reading it for the first time and for me it probably goes:
1. Penelope
2. Hades
3. Circe
4. Sirens
5. Ithaca
6. Telemachus
7. Nausicaa
8. Calypso
9. Proteus
10. Lestrygonians
11. Cyclops
12. Aeolus
13. Scylla and Charybdis
14. Nestor
15. Wandering Rocks
16. Lotus Eaters
17. Eumaeus
18. Oxen of the Sun (because I'm a dumb cunt and it's still too hard for my poor little brain to get much of anything out of it)

>finish this
>fucking hate women now

>Hear for years that this is a work of genius
>Finally read it
>It's just cuck porn, including a sissification scene.

What was so scandalous about the Sirens chapter? I’ve seen it hinted at multiple times that there is something controversial there. It’s all so cryptic

articulate in words why it's good

As i see it Joyce just wanted to show both in this book and "Finnegan's Wake", that people are too attached to finding all these symbols in the text when he was actualy just "playing a prank" on them.

lmao, this crock of shit is considered good? Lets pretend I'm low IQ for a moment and you explain to me how in the ever loving fuck could anyone consider this to be good.
Is it cause it's fancy English, is that the entire schtick?

Longest book you’ve ever personally read?

What am I in for?

Ulysses Discussion Thread
Just starting it today, what are your thought on it?

>>22165625

>>22120774
>because most of the older books are just a single color with text
fucking based

>>21996261
>No other book in history has filtered more people than picrel.
ehem

>Oxen of the Sun
>Wandering Rocks
>Circe

What's the equivalent to pic related for other languages?

>want to read Ulysses
>"you should really read Joyce's previous works to get a better understanding of him before tackling Ulysses"
>Ok. Done
>"you should really read Homer as each chapter of Ulysses is modeled after a book in the Odyssey"
>thatwaseasy.mp3
>"you also should really read Hamlet"
>"why?"
>"you just should. but before you read Hamlet you should read Shakespeare's other tragedies first as Hamlet is his most difficult work"
>Ok. Done
>"you should really read Dante too, but before you read Dante you should read Virgil and Ovid"
Will this ever end? When will I be allowed to read this damn book?

>>21770409
Bald, pale Sean Evans came from the green room, bearing a tray of chicken wings on which a knife and a fork lay crossed. A red napkin, ungirdled, was tucked gently behind him in the mild studio air. He held the tray aloft and intoned:

—What's up, Spice Lords? Sean Evans here.

Halted, he peered down the dark stage passageway and called out coarsely:

—Come up, Joyce! Come up, you fearful interviewee!

Solemnly he came forward and mounted the stage. He faced about and blessed gravely thrice the tables, the chairs and the awaking hot sauces. Then, catching sight of Sean Evans, he bent towards him and made rapid crosses in the air, gurgling in his throat and shaking his head. Sean Evans, inquisitive and patient, leaned his arms on the top of the MacBook used to deep-dive his Instagram and looked coldly at the shaking gurgling face that blessed him, equine in its length, and at the light untonsured hair, grained and hued like pale oak.