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How many people in the world have actually read this book?

>> No.11026973

>>11026963
Who is Faber and why does he get top billing over Faber Limited?

>> No.11027108

No one has read this novel. Not even JJ.

>> No.11027112

>>11026963
The only one I'm aware of is Bloom

>> No.11027120

>>11026963
The only one I'm aware of is Harold Bloom, but the book has a solid 10k ratings on goodreads (and a higher score than Moby Dick, wtf).

>> No.11027121

>>11026963
Gell-Mann.

>> No.11027124

>>11026963

Beckett read it and Joseph Campbell was obsessed with it. I doubt Pound trudged through the entire thing.

>> No.11027186

>>11026963
I've read it

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Patrick Healy read it all, out loud, with an Irish accent.

>> No.11027240

fewer the better

>> No.11027554

>>11026963
I’m sure plenty of people have read it. I’m sure .1% of them understood it.

>> No.11027560

Im on page 150~

>> No.11027597

>>11027560
highlights so far? im planning on diving in at some point

>> No.11027636

It isn't hard at all. It's meant to be "fun", insofar as you should "read out loud, to get the wordplay etc."
It is *not* a thinking-man's book. IT IS a plebeian, children's book, meant to incite fun.

>> No.11027681

Anthony Burgess (clockwork orange and earthly powers) loved it, edited and released an abridges version, AND said it was the funniest book ever written.

Scott Miller from Game Theory is a noted fan, even writing his liner notes for an album in the style of its prose.

I would love to just drop all my other books and dive in with a few companion guides to help me one day.

>> No.11027697

>>11027597
Mutt and Jute was the best part for me so far and I think that was quite early on

>> No.11027829
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>>11026963
It is a sequel to Ulysses, so it 'should' be as many as have read that + the balance of linguists and cryptographers that wouldn't otherwise have an interest in the former.

>> No.11027831

Hardly anyone reads anything. There was an article a few months ago detailing how even academics hate reading and avoid it if they can help it.

>> No.11027839

>>11027831
link to the article?

>> No.11027849

>>11027831
>how even academics hate reading
>even

Everyone would if they saw the litany of poorly written papers and the shit that is grind out of liberal arts these days.

>> No.11027850

>>11026963
Only one. Two if you count God.

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>>11027831
>that's right goy, be dumb!
>even the ppls u think r smart r rly dumb!
>DON'T READ ANYTHING GOY!
>IT'S BAD FOR YOU!

>> No.11027939

>>11027852
Ok but for real tho are u retarded? My educational content comes from audiobooks and podcasts. I learn real shit I wanna learn and don't read.

Do you think reading fiction makes you more intelligent?

>> No.11027953

>>11027939
Yes

>> No.11027958

>>11026963
I've read it twice. The first time, I was really just going through the motions, and didn't even realize that the book had recurring characters.

The second time, I read it alongside Campbell's Skeleton Key and the book of annotations, and got a lot more out of it.

>> No.11028101

>>11027939
you've already been exposed mate just stop the propaganda

>> No.11028195

>>11026963
After a few years on /lit/ I think Finnegans Wake and Summa Theologica have the highest ratio of 'people who discuss them' to 'people who have actually read them in full'

>> No.11028305

>>11028195
You dont need to read either fully to understand them. All of aquintas's arguments use the same dumb circular reasoning

>> No.11028357

>>11027852
>>>/pol/

>> No.11028425

>>11027554
The whole thing? I highly doubt it.

>> No.11028513

>>11026963
There's a decent post on it every year, so at least some people here have read it. I plan on reading it within the next ten years.

>> No.11028625

>>11027958
>didn't realize the book had recurring characters
Dawg how the fuck?

>> No.11028872

>>11028625
The characters in FW aren't expressed outright but rather through repeated linguistic constructs. The protagonist manifests in instances of the initials H, C, and E (e.g. right in the first sentence, "Howth Castle and Environs"), while his wife is A, L, and P (e.g. in the last sentence, metatextually, "a long the PARIS,")

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>>11026963
You need Campbell's "Skeleton Key", it was the only way I got through the book.

>> No.11029105

>>11028872
I read the book brainlet. That part was really fucking obvious.

>> No.11029141

>>11027108
>Not even JJ.

Especially not JJ

>> No.11029553

I don't know, 20 million in history?