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This is it, /lit/.

I'm going in.

Wish me luck.

>> No.3034569

What, are you going to actually READ it? Bwahahaha, what a retard.

>> No.3034577

>Reading anything by Joyce

Time lost. Nothing gained.

>> No.3034590

>>3034577
1. You could say that about most all human activities;
2. I loved Dubliners and A Portrait.

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>>3034584

this as well

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it's dangerous to go alone! take this

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>>3034569
>>3034577

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3034609

the opening from my 1968 edition (penguin books uk) for comparison, i guess

>> No.3034613

>>3034598
>reading
>2012
next thing you're going to tell me is you're manually typing your posts instead of having a neat collection of standard replies handily bound to keyboard shortcuts.

>> No.3034616

>>3034609
Don't fold back the front cover like that, that's bad for a book

>> No.3034619

>>3034609
>folding the cover like that

>> No.3034625

That's the most pretentious thing I've ever read.

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>>3034619
>>3034616

it's ridiculously thin and flexible. i'm sure it saw far worse before i acquired it

>> No.3034630

>>3034625
I honestly couldn't give any less fucks, friend

I'm pretentious already; I read

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>>3034628

here's a better view

>> No.3034658

>>3034634

dat fat finger

>> No.3034660

It doesn't get difficult until chapter 3.

And then it gets easy again until chapter 14.

So enjoy while you're able.

>> No.3034670

>>3034660
To be fair, I'm already mildly confused by the gunrest. Why are they in a tower with a gunrest?

>> No.3034677

>>3034670

it's ireland, they don't have to explain shit

>> No.3034686

>>3034670
Joyce had lived in the tower he's describing there. It's the same tower as the one depicted on the cover of the Penguin Modern Classics edition of Ulysses.

>> No.3034688

>>3034670
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martello_tower

>> No.3034699

Good luck, anon.

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>>3034677

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>>3034686
>>3034688
Intredasting

>> No.3034724

Good luck. I'm just at the half way mark. Feels good.

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>op 3 months from now

>> No.3034734

You'll do great anon. I enjoyed the last two sections (Ithaca, Penelope) best, so look forward to them if you're finding it a slog.

>> No.3034738

>>3034564

I started on it two weeks ago. As I know how it went for first two chapters I'm gona help you a little:

Firstly, don't quit until you get to the Leopold Bloom chapters. Daedalus chapters at beginning are depressing and much harder to read than later ones.

Secondly, print these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linati_schema_for_Ulysses
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_schema_for_Ulysses
Main use. Chapters!

Thirdly, get yourself a Don Gifford's "Ulysses Annotated". There are words in Ulysses that you can not possibly know without it.
There are pdf copies around the net. And there is even one here compete with text from the book:
http://www.columbia.edu/~fms5/ulys.htm
I also use Bernard Mckennas reference book, but only for its synopsis.


Lastly, reading (unabridged) Odysseus before helps a lot. You can better see a lot of alusions between the works.

>> No.3034752

Why do you guys consider the book to be so difficult? It's far easier to comprehend than Shakespeare, which I'm sure everyone here has read

>> No.3034759

>>3034752

Check your literate privilege.

>> No.3034764

>>3034738

Any book that requires this much use of my limited time is not worth the read. The opening paragraphs alone make me feel like the author was furiously masturbating as he wrote them.

>> No.3034771

>>3034738
this is waaaaaaaaay too much work for a book. i want to enjoy reading not have it be like researching an essay

>> No.3034772

>>3034752
Personally, as I'm not native in English, Shakespeare was harder at beginning. The main problem with him is that he uses outdated expressions and words, but he use them through his all works, so once you master them, it becomes a breeze.

>> No.3034773

the problem with joyce is that from dubliners you can tell he can write very good stories with wonderful prose that arent completely incomprehensible or intimidating. i wish he had done more of that thatn his experimental stuff that almost requires a degree in english literature to digest

>> No.3034822

Adverbs abound!


This is achingly ugly. If you want into Joyce, read Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist.

>> No.3035095

>>3034771

Reading Ulysses really is like a research project. In a good way. And the really good thing is, that all the side stuff,simply isn't required for you to follow the story. If you want to take a stroll through Dublin, take a map and enjoy the landmarks. If not, you can ignore it

Reading it can be really a pleasant experience, unless, off course, you are doing it for school. I'm of a conviction that one can't possibly enjoy a thing that he is are required to do.

>> No.3035115

>>3034609
>creasing the front cover
absolutely disgusting