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>tfw almost didnt read today
Books for this feel?

>> No.8808589

I don't read most days

>> No.8808598

>>8808589
absolute madman
u gaining life experience, bro?

>> No.8808603

>>8808598
Nope

>> No.8808698

>>8808577
Uh... im dragging throu The portrait of an artist by Joyce... when does the fucking passage about hell end, its been like 10 pages that priest dude is messing with my patience.

And on top of that i'm reading Inferno at the same time.

>> No.8808708

>>8808698
The exact passage I stopped reading the book during

I really loved the beginning of the book. I love Joyce for his playing with language and the cross between Irish slang and baby-talk at the beginning was exactly what I love about him. From then on it became to normal I couldn't stand it

Finnegans Wake and Ulysses are miles better imo

>> No.8808717

>>8808698
>>8808708
the passage about hell was my favourite part

>> No.8808721

>>8808708
>Finnegans Wake
I've kind of leafed through this one half-heartedly before and found some interesting passages but I can't imagine reading it. Do you have treat it as a puzzle you're decoding?

>> No.8808735

>>8808717
I really loved it too, I'm not religious but it still gave me a sense of dread and fear

It just happens to be where I stopped reading

>>8808721
If you love puns, puzzles, linguistics, and portmanteaus, it's the most fun you'll ever have reading a book. It took me three weeks to get to page 60, sometimes I'd spend half an hour on a single sentence, but it is incredibly rewarding and easier to understand than people make it out to be. It's a series of short scenes, usually spanning a page or two

>> No.8809138

This board.