Ulysses in Never too Late to Read Classics

Jan 22, 2018 Sara rated it did not like it

I don't know why I feel the need to apologize, but this is the third time I tried to read this and failed. I tried this time with a group, hoping that would make it more intelligible and less oppressive--but, no, it was pretty much the same reaction as the first time. I will not ever try again. If it had been up to me, James Joyce would still be languishing in obscurity.

I know, I know...it is avant guard, it is groundbreaking, it is unique, and (for those who share his sense of humor) it is hum ...more

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May 24, 2015 Elanna rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: novels, classics, tesseracts, ireland, checked, 1001-libri, favourites, should-be-read-in-schools, galway-bookshelf, modernism-and-postmodernism

Riuscirà Stephen Dedalus a trovare l'ispirazione, il proprio pubblico, una figura paterna e un po' di pace spirituale?
Riuscirà Leopold Bloom a riconquistare il talamo nuziale, la paternità perduta e il cuore della propria infedele, eppur saggia, moglie?
Riuscirà il nostro Leopold almeno a tornare a casa dopo una giornata di avventure per le strade della Dublino di inizio secolo?
Riusciranno i due uomini ad incontrarsi fortuitamente?
Soprattutto, cosa ne pensa Molly Bloom?

SCOPROLO! ...more

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Sep 15, 2016 Alexander rated it really liked it

My first reading and it has undeniable greatness. Only rating a 4 because there's just so much I didn't get. Now being familiar with the flow of everything I intend to do a much closers reading with essays and annotstions. ...more

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Aug 17, 2014 Elanna rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: novels, classics, tesseracts, ireland, checked, 1001-libri, favourites, galway-bookshelf, modernism-and-postmodernism

Will Stephen Dedalus find his inspiration, his public, his lost spiritual father, his peace of mind?
Will Leopold Bloom reconquer his nuptial talamus, his lost paternity and the heart of his unfaithful yet trustworthy wife?
Will he make it home after a day's adventure up and down the streets of 1904 Dublin?
Will the two men succeed in fortuitously meeting each other?
More than anything else, what does Molly Bloom think of all this?

Find it out through 682 pages of fun, spelling puns & plays on words, ...more

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Jan 23, 2018 Janet rated it it was ok

Does writing need to be daunting, exhausting, excessively verbose...to be excellent. Many lovely authors have achieved excellence without such ploys. Whew!

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Nov 29, 2012 GONZA rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Questo libro è stato particolare, l'ho letto senza capirlo, lasciavo che le parole mi scorressero sopra e per una volta la trama mi è assolutamente oscura, o meglio l'ho letta su wikipedia.
All'inizio non è stato facile, sembrava di leggere in una lingua sconosciuta, i pezzi non andavano a posto e quando ci andavano non erano chiari, poi ho deciso, complice anche il g.d.l., di tentare l'approccio "vai comunque avanti" e in qualche modo la musicalità di alcune frasi mi ha permesso di finirlo. Sic ...more

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