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    <body><![CDATA[Many people find this book perplexing, but I find it’s something like a magic hat crossed with <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16372.The_Mirror_Crack_d_from_Side_to_Side" title="The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side by Agatha Christie">a hall of mirrors</a>. You can pull almost anything out of it, but usually you'll get a twisted reflection of your own ideas, obsessions, or hidden fantasies. Perhaps that's the cause for perplexion, but I t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8044750">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The easiest book in the world... seriously.  With scholars unable to ever reach consensus on what the book is or how it should be read or even if it actually has value, you can simply ignore them.  Your opinions are just as valid.  Add to this the  wads of cultural ephemera that Joyce has packed the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9360692">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Finnegan's Wake is the night to Ulysses' day. It is riddled with obfuscatory language to separate the reader from the events described as a sleeper is separated from his waking consciousness. If anyone has captured the language of dreams it would be Joyce. It is often playful and insightful and othe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5290389">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Follows a man's thoughts and dreams during a single night. It is also a book that participates in the re-reading of Irish history that was part of the revival of the early 20th century. The author also wrote &quot;Ulysses&quot;, &quot;Dubliners&quot; and &quot;Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man&quot;.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Since this book is an anomaly unto itself, I will review it with a true story that I made up. There's a custodian in my apartment complex i've become friendly with named Red. One day, I noticed Red eyeing me up while I sat reading my copy of Finnegan's Wake and asked him if he was familiar with it. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2133731">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is not a fair score, I'll admit it right up front. This book affirms my reasoning for reading the first few pages of a book before buying it. This I bought because I've been trying to read more classics, and after the attempt I have added the requirement to classics as well.<br/><br/>Here's t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50782093">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The Finnegans Wake Notebook Edition is a fully integrated and cross-referenced edition of all the extant work-books compiled by Joyce after the completion of Ulysses. It will be published as a series of fascicles, one per authorial notebook, three per scribal notebook, fifty-five in all. This will make individual notebooks available to scholars as they appear and allow critical feedback, laying the foundations for an electronic edition that will be prepared simultaneously. The editorial aim is to bring together all of the information relevant to each note in as concise and simple a way as possible. The Finnegans Wake Notebook Edition will provide a reference library of comprehensively quoted source material-in effect an annotated digest of Joyce's working library-which will serve as a new starting point not just for exegesis of Finnegans Wake, but also for biographical, textual, and literary criticism of Joyce. Furthermore, the Edition will allow for a reconstruction of Joyce's intellectual concerns and compositional habits during the drafting of Work in Progress / Finnegans Wake.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Major life admission: I've never actually finished this book. Let me explain.<br/><br/>I first came across Joyce in the spring of 1996. When &quot;Araby&quot; was assigned for an evening's BritLit homework, I was fifteen and still playing <em>Final Fantasy Legend</em> on my Gameboy from that Christmas ; up...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25624027">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Would need to take a class to follow this.  Stopped and started many times.  I just always get lost.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I spent a couple of years working my way through this book.  Besides Flannery O'Connor's short stories and Schoenberg's Theory of Harmony, I can think of no other text that inspires me with evangelical zeal.  I think about Finnegans Wake and I want to convert everyone to the Church of James Joyce.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1208811">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one book that I will finish before I die.... however it may have to wait until full-fledged alcoholism sets in, because the only way I've ever been able to make any headway is to read it after a night of heavy drinking. Proof positive that if you spit out hundreds of pages of stuff no one un...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8473120">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[read to me at 16 by the lunatic frank mccourt (in his joyce class elective at stuyvesant), this book changed my language capacity. sometimes i think the only real writers in english are poe and joyce. and maybe flannery oconnor. thackery knows flourish. faulkner knows how to fuse inner monologues. h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27603893">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow, what can you learn from this book?  That Joyce is the self-indulgent, self-mythologizing king of all pretentious literary bullshitters?  Yes, that's probably the most important thing.  Other possible conclusions: (1)  the canonical status of this book indicates the insanity of the canon and of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10092051">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A lot of people disregard Finnegans Wake as incomprehensible, and some people even get angry, as if the book has somehow wronged them.  The text, being as it is infinite, requires you to ditch your notions of &quot;mastering&quot; the text and accept that you will never get to the bottom of Finnegan...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55321368">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Call me a late bloomer to have read this book now.  And stating that I &quot;read&quot; this book is somewhat of a misnomer.  Any of you who have &quot;read&quot; or attempted to &quot;read&quot; this book will know what I mean.  You have to admire the artistry involved in putting this work together...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66703269">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Read twice and a third time selected passages.  So the date is after the second time completely through.<br/><br/>Definitely recommend reading alongside commentary, as this is often considered the most opaque &quot;novel&quot; ever written.  (I used <em>Skeleton Key</em>, I think I should try <em>Reader's Guid...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79789864">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The most brilliant (and, therefore, impossible) book ever written. The language in Finnegans Wake shimmers and oozes, crawls along the page. Every single word is packed with multiple meanings. I mean, Jesus, I still can't comprehend how a man achieved this, how he wrote this!! Don't let anyone tell ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81027168">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The Finnegans Wake Notebook Edition is a fully integrated and cross-referenced edition of all the extant work-books compiled by Joyce after the completion of Ulysses. It will be published as a series of fascicles, one per authorial notebook, three per scribal notebook, fifty-five in all. This will make individual notebooks available to scholars as they appear and allow critical feedback, laying the foundations for an electronic edition that will be prepared simultaneously. The editorial aim is to bring together all of the information relevant to each note in as concise and simple a way as possible. The Finnegans Wake Notebook Edition will provide a reference library of comprehensively quoted source material-in effect an annotated digest of Joyce's working library-which will serve as a new starting point not just for exegesis of Finnegans Wake, but also for biographical, textual, and literary criticism of Joyce. Furthermore, the Edition will allow for a reconstruction of Joyce's intellectual concerns and compositional habits during the drafting of Work in Progress / Finnegans Wake.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a doozy to read. Many think it is unreadable. I tried to read it many times and gave up after the first page. Then I found a book called &quot;A Skeleton Key to 'Finegans Wake'&quot; It is here in Goodreads. I did not put it in as one of my Read books is because I no longer have it and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74696731">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[James Joyce's last and most experimential novel, Finnegans Wake is remarkable in the use of complex symbolism, puns, and the use of portmanteau words. ]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had not heard anything about this book before opening it. Ha ha! My reaction: &quot;What the...?! What is this?&quot; I flipped through the pages to make sure it didn't become comprehensible at some point. Nope. So, no, I did not read it and will not be reading it ... ever. Goodreads should have a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69590008">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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