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6285128 No.6285128 [Reply] [Original]

YOU GUYS CANT STOP ME, IM GOING TO DO IT, IM GOING TO READ THIS AND ENJOY IT

>> No.6285135
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Go ahead anon, i'll be waiting right here.

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>>6285135

>> No.6285242

but first you should check my dubs

>> No.6285380

>And enjoy it
No.

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>>6285128
>ENJOY IT

>> No.6287259

>>6285128
my copy should get here today and then I will too!

>> No.6287289

It is a book with a word game in every single line. If you like word games, you like the book.

>> No.6287303

who here has actually finished it?

>> No.6287599

>>6285128

Jokes aside, I've been studying the first couple pages for a few months casually, and I can say with certainty that it is the greatest piece of literature ever produced.

>> No.6289228

>>6287599
Hands down I agree. It is the definitive apex of literature.

>> No.6289233
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Finnegans Wake. A formless and dull mass of phony folklore, a cold pudding of a book. Conventional and drab, redeemed from utter insipidity only by infrequent snatches of heavenly intonations. Detest it. A cancerous growth of fancy word-tissue hardly redeems the dreadful joviality of the folklore and the easy, too easy, allegory. Indifferent to it, as to all regional literature written in dialect. A tragic failure and a frightful bore.

>> No.6289493

>>6289233
>you will never be so versed in literary and general knowledge that something like Finnegans Wake becomes obvious and simple

>> No.6289502

>>6287303

I have. It's my favourite book. What I do now is mostly to read it at random, but I shall never put it down for the rest of my life.

I'm not saying that everyone should enjoy it, but not to consider it the greatest work of art known to man is to fail as the ultima patricio.

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>>6289233
Implying the opinion of that clueless pedo is worth a shit.

>> No.6289541

>>6289502
> I only read one book in my life, and even that not to completion
I dread the world where something like that is taken as a mark of 'particianness'.

>> No.6289567

>>6289541
For a literature board, it always manages to surprise me how many people here lack the reading comprehension to even understand the most basic of posts.