/lit/ - Literature

It's hard to say, because they're all really great. I always say Wandering Rocks because I love the Dubliners feel it has to it, but Proteus, Aeolus, Scylla and Charybdis, Cyclops, Nausicaa, Circe, and Eumaeus are all amazing as well.

>>6859118

As of what i read so far, i think Proteus was amazing. Loved the feeling to it. I also liked following Stephan dedaleus after reading portrait of the artist as a young man

the one where leopold bloom jerks it in public like the degenerate freak he truly is

When I first grabbed the book I opened Ithaca at random and my fucking god I broke down in laughter

>>6859083
I'd say Cyclops so far, i cracked up laughing in the end.

>>6859083
They are all perfect.

Hades....that was a brutal chapter.

>>6859260
A dwarf's face, mauve and wrinkled like little Rudy's was. Dwarf's
body, weak as putty, in a whitelined deal box. Burial friendly society pays.
Penny a week for a sod of turf.
>Our. Little. Beggar. Baby.
Meant nothing.
Mistake of nature. If it's healthy it's from the mother. If not from the man.
Better luck next time.

>>6859083
is this book worth reading?

the gold and blue one

>>6859570
Nah. It's pretty boring. Just a bunch of people talking about crap.

Does it matter which order you read Joyce books in?
Someone here said it was best to start with Portrait

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>>6859570
yes. It's a masterpiece and there is beautiful brilliant writing worth marking and taking note of within every 5 pages at the very worst

>>6861033
I personally would say to read in order from Dubliners on. Seeing Joyce's style and prose evolve from book to book is incredible

My favorite is Proteus with Ithaca close behind, but on first read Sirens was the most intense thing I've ever read.