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6348796 No.6348796 [Reply] [Original]

Is there a point in reading any novel 800+ pages long if you could read three different equally as good novels in the same timespan?

>> No.6348801

>>6348796
>Implying any book is equal to another

>> No.6348809

you're allowed to read more than one book at once. I read like three small novels throughout the time I was reading gravities rainbow and J R, each.

>> No.6348826

>>6348796
Stop being a puss. read all 4

>> No.6348835

>>6348796
if they are "equally as good" then there is nothing wrong with reading the longer book because you get more out of it

>> No.6349215

>>6348796
When its Ulysses? Make the time.

>> No.6349262

>>6348796
Ulysses is a beautiful crazy mindfuck of words. Just do it ;)

On a more general level... often times authors are unable to sustain such a great length. JK Rowling is in no way a literary great, but she has an unusual skill to keep us going through 30,000 pages with relative ease (except perhaps moments in the order of the phoenix). Most authors (looking at you G. Martin) cannot do this.

>> No.6349272

>>6349262
Simple prose isnt an effort

>> No.6349280

>>6349262
>Ulysses is a beautiful crazy mindfuck of words.

>typical Ulysses fan
>can't explain anything about the book
>hasn't read it fully

"OH WOW IT'S LIKE X ON ACID ITS A TOTAL MINDFUCK I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT'S DOING THOUGH DON'T ASK ME TOO CLOSELY".

>> No.6349307

>>6349280
Tbf its not even a mindfuck of words

>> No.6349360

>>6349280
>typical Ulysses detractor
>knowledge of work operates on sophomoric rumors, bland culture warring, third hand impressions, the belief that "high art" must resemble the neo-classical, and that if he doesn't understand something right away then he is probably too wise for it
>can't find anyone who will engage him or correct his uninformed opinion because he is under-read and unpleasant
>will go to his grave believing he saw through the great sham that was Ulysses

>> No.6349367

>>6349262
cringe

>> No.6349372
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6349372

>>6348796
>equally as good

>> No.6349376

>>6349360
I don't think it was ever implied that they were detractors, but just making fun of the typical reaction by people who have pretended to read it for bragging rights or whatever

>> No.6349380

>>6349360

>still no textual explanation of how good Ulysses is and why

Carry on kid. I'm truly convinced you've read the whole thing and you're a true Joyce scholar rather than some kid on the internet with a high school education and a Joyce reader.

>> No.6349402

>>6348801
/thread

>> No.6349411

>>6349380
Not everybody who wants to say something good about Joyce has to be a Joyce scholar.

>> No.6350184

>>6348796
first read something shorter by Joyce, like Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
if you like it read the Odyssey
THEN read Ulysses

>> No.6350205

It's funny you say that because Ulysses feels like 18 different novels