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Hey guys,

Borrowed Ulysses from the library a couple days ago.

Have only read about ten pages, but I have to say, the whole dialogue style is really fucking annoying.

Any tips on understanding it better? Seriously it's annoying having to guess when the format is:
- These cattle are brown, said the farmer, who lives in the city

>> No.667869

Get a heavily annotated version, read all notes.

>> No.667887

It's not especially difficult

>> No.667894

The problem is that it's a horrible book.

>> No.667900

1) Go to library
2) Put book back on shelf
3) Check out a good book instead
4) Enjoy

>> No.667904

>>667894
>>667900
shameflag

>> No.667909

Interested, got a cheapo second hand copy of Ulysses, gonna read it after I finish the Iliad and the Odyssey.

>> No.667954

Bump, any other ideas/comments?

>> No.667972

Really, if your problem is figuring out what's being spoken and what's not, you'd better just quit.

>> No.667973

I am having the same problems with Les Miserables, I think I am going to stop and read something about the French Revolution and a buy a French dictionary

>> No.668019

Give some more examples.

>> No.668025

>>667972

haha. what this guy said.

>> No.668073

tip: you won't like it 'till page 100.

>> No.668094

>Seriously it's annoying having to guess when the format is:
>- These cattle are brown, said the farmer, who lives in the city

Everything is like this in French. You are just a faggot.

>> No.668096

>>667954
no

>> No.668139

Put Ulysses back, pick up Dubliners instead. Read it. After you finish that, pick up Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Read that, too. THEN pick up Ulysses.

But that time, you'll be so used to Joyce's lack of quotation marks that you can focus on the things that REALLY matter.

(As for WHY Joyce writes like that, he felt quotation marks gave an "impression of unreality," which is pretty true considering how quotes are often used to denote sarcasm.)

>> No.668147

>>667972
>>668025
>>668094

Aspie logic: 'If it's a problem I haven't encountered before, it isn't a real problem.'

>> No.668155

>>668147
> If you're having problems with something this trivial, you should give up on reading anything but People magazine.

FTFY

>> No.668161

>>668155
No one knows what that means. You just posted FTFY in two threads. Did you just discover it?

>> No.668167

>>668161
fixed that for you.
it's kind of a common acronym on this website called 4chan, bro.

>> No.668173

>>668161
I posted it once. Did you just discover it or something? It's pretty common.