/lit/ - Literature

THIS IS NOW A HERMOINE THREAD

EVERYONE: DUMP YOUR EMMA FOLDERS

>>1128025

why does no one listen to this man?! he speaks the truth and yet the herd marches on ignorantly.

fuck u

it's enjoyable for like, english majors I guess but to an average reader probably not that enjoyable. Same thing as stuff like Gravity's Rainbow and such.

If it's not enjoyable to most people, chances are high it's pretentious bullshit for people who have sunk money into useless degrees. There's a reason most people don't read laughable nonsense like this.

>>1128116

u so smart

High school dropout here. I enjoyed it a lot, even more the second time.

>>1128146
thanks, but I don't need my ego inflated by people whose opinions i don't have any reason to respect.

Yes, I enjoyed it. Took me a while to get into it, but I think it's worth the effort. Stick with it.

>>1128116
Partially THIS. It's a great book and well worth the mental effort to read it all. But most people will only read to be pretentious about it and cosplay on Bloomsday.

>>1128149
Oh, I'm glad we finally have the high school dropout's opinion. Look, I'm sorry you came from a broken home or whatever, but you should really be doing something productive right now, like working with your hands, or studying for the GED.

>>1128212
Looking a bit snobby there

Ulysses is like an ex-girlfriend for me. When we first met it was awkward; after I got to know the book I started to like the descriptions and writing ascetics; for a bit I thought I was in love with the book's incite and wit; then we got into some fights over Shakespeare and I realized it just wasn't working out. Now I haven't seen the book in years. Maybe I'll pick it up again.

As for the Only English Majors Allowed mentality the book has garnered. I'm an engineering student and I got half way through it before I rage quit on it. So take what you will from that.

Wait until you get a week off of school/college/work/w.e

Grab some tea and a bowl of trees.

Clear your mind and slowly read Ulysses without any regard for time or speed (okay, so disregard the slowly part).
Orgasm for hours.

>>1128334
>As for the Only English Majors Allowed mentality the book has garnered

I'm >>1128349
I'm a senior in high school, and I'm planning to study political science and/or history. So.... yeah. Needing to be an English major for that book is like needing to be 18 to use 4chan.

english major here, i thought it was brilliant and recently finished finnegans wake which was about 99x as nasty and fun.

ulysses has a bad rap from retards who've never read it and act as though it's some sort of elitist gospel. it's actually the opposite, and it attacks itself more savagely than any critic could when its dissecting human consciousness like a usyless butterfly wing.

damn now you've got me thinking, and with joyce i can never give an unqualified recommendation. i can say though that reading Ulysses is akin to reading 100 novels in one -- thus, it's harder, but also you're going to get a lot more out of it.

>>1128374
>english major here
thanks for clarifying because it would have been hard to discern from the rest of your post whether or not you are a pretentious douchebag

>>1128417
You may want to consider leaving /lit/.

>>1128420
if you couldn't tell i'm fond of engaging in a bit of pretentious douchebaggery myself from time to time. i like it here.

>>1128374
english grad student here. shits stupid even the professors dread assigning it. there's probably some brilliance in there, but most people don't care enough to wade through the shit to find it.

>>1128417

batthert

It's just a book, guys. You read it until you run out of pages. If you're not enjoying it, recalibrate your expectations. Imagine that you've found yourself in the woods without your shoes. You're experiencing a lot of sensations right now, and your first thought is probably that it's unpleasant to feel anything, but of course it's not really. Reading Ulysses is much the same.

>>1128427
english professor here. it's an amazing piece of work time and time again underestimated by laymen and wizened alike.

>>1128441
I DON'T CARE WHAT WIZARDS THINK ABOUT LITERATURE. THEY JUST SIT UP IN THEIR TOWERS ALL DAY WEARING THEIR ROBES AND IGNORING REAL PEOPLE WITH REAL PROBLEMS. FUCK THOSE ASSHOLES

>>1128455
I'm with this guy. >>1128441 I don't know why you are bringing wizards into this, but they are bad news.

>>1128455
>>1128470

oh u!

>>1128417
>Doesn't know what pretentious means