/lit/ - Literature

Also Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and Infinite Jeat by DFW

I fucking hate this book so much. Does he ever shut up about obscure Irish history or obscure things where I have no idea what he's talking about? This book makes me hate reading, it makes me feel like everything is a waste of time.

>le edgy agnostic

Please tell me his other works are better than this.

>>12399269
Not even memeing. What makes it even worse is that I was led to believe that it would actually be good.

"His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.


Bonus: "And would again could whispring grassies wake
him and may again when the fiery bird disembers. And will
again if so be sooth by elder to his youngers shall be said."

Joyce was a master at phrasing.

>>12129941

What is the best way to go about reading a portrait of the artist as a young man?

>inb4 open it up & start reading