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FINISHED

After two months of reading, re-reading, taking notes, checking annotations, I have finally completed this book.

I am ambivalent about the whole thing. Yes it is clever and well written, but reading it felt like doing homework, like I had to force myself to get through it. For the most part I did not enjoy the novel itself, especially when it came to episodes like Oxen of the Sun, and gimmicky ones like Aeolus and Eumaeus.

The good episodes were Proteus, Nausicaa, the early Bloom chapters part II, Sirens, and Telemachus.

Anyone else wanna share their experience reading Ulysses?

>> No.18852205

how hard is it really

>> No.18852215

>>18852205
It's easy as fuck and even a retard can read it, according to /lit/. Which is true, if you want a superficial reading... But if you really want to understand 90%+ of it, you need to read it at least twice, since most of it isn't even going to make sense until you've finished the later chapters.

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What I respect about Joyce is that he didn't waste his time on bullshit. It's either write an immortal novel or fuck writing completely. The guy did nothing for years at a time, then spent decades writing one book.

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>>18852190
Congrats, this is for you. You can now stand tall among the men like you who have also accomplished this feat, and look down on all the lowly plebs who were filtered out by this literary masterpiece.

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>>18852430
Shit wrong one, sorry

>> No.18852458

>>18852430
>>18852435
Totally worth it just for this. Thanks anon

>> No.18852502

>>18852190
i didn't enjoy some of the parts of the book myself, but it still was a lot of fun overall
i'm surprised you didn't mention hades and wandering rocks, those are some of the most straightforward chapters when it comes to the writing style and they're also pretty fun

>> No.18852611

>>18852502
>hades
When I said the early Bloom chapters of part II, I meant Hades, Calypso, and Lotus Eaters. Those were probably my favourite. No gimmicks, Joyce as his best.

>wandering rocks
Might have been a mistake but I treated this chapter as a puzzle to be solved, yielding all the info about minor characters and timelines, so I was mostly focused on synchronising all the events and placing each character in the right place.

>> No.18852632

>>18852611
>Might have been a mistake but I treated this chapter as a puzzle to be solved, yielding all the info about minor characters and timelines, so I was mostly focused on synchronising all the events and placing each character in the right place.
that wasn't a mistake, but what's wrong with the chapter being like that? it's fun piecing together the events by using passages that are chronologically out of order and that contain characters and events that appear in multiple passages
i guess that wandering rocks does have a gimmick then, but it's a really good one
do you hate any unorthodox way of telling the plot in literature?

>> No.18852664

overrated dogshit book with 19th century meme references
truly the kevin smith of his time

>> No.18852832

>>18852632
I didn't say there was a problem with the episode. Wondering rocks had no gimmicks, unlike Eumaeus which I think most people dislike since it is purposely written in an obnoxious style.

>> No.18852855

>>18852190
Good work, anon. Did you follow any of Waldun's advice?

>> No.18852956

>>18852855
Kek just looked this up. It's just the same old now-banal stuff you hear in every preface of Joyce, passed as his own.

>> No.18853601

>>18852246
17 years on finnegans wake was a waste tho

>> No.18853616

>>18852190
Not really. I loved it t b h even tho it did feel "homework"-y, but I didn't take notes like a fag, I just read it with discipline.
>>18852205
Only chapter I found truly difficult was Oxen of the Sun

>> No.18853635

Im gonna listen it as an audio book while I play league what am I in for bros?

>> No.18853637

>>18853616
Scylla and Charybdis is probably harder in its entirety because it's hard to follow with the random voices and interjections. Oxen is mostly just difficult in the beginning when the parody is Latin.

>> No.18853643

>>18853635
League of legends

>> No.18854274

>>18853635
waste of time