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Ulysses

James Joyce

Start date: January 1, 2018

Finish date: March 31, 2018

Discussion: New School Classics- 1915-2005

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Sep 14, 2018 Kenny rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, spenky-says-so, classics, james-joyce, top-11, author-author, long-haul-reads, éirinn

“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.”
Ulysses ~~~ James Joyce

I have never had so many starts, false starts, and restarts with a novel in my entire life. But it was worth every effort made to read this amazing book.

My Goodreads friend, zxvasdf, once said to me, You'll always be far from finishing, even when you finish it. I don't think anyone can really appreciate Joyce's work in its entirety if they're not ...more

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Apr 02, 2009 Cait rated it it was ok

Shelves: bloom-canon, 1001, classics, lost-lit, owned, read-in-2010

Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, I am free at last!

This review will be all over the place, as I have so many conflicting thoughts regarding this book. While I did love certain sections, they just could not make up for the fact that the rest of the book was simply a form of literary torture. I don't think I've ever had such a roller coaster ride of a reading experience before. Joyce managed to make me laugh out loud one second, and the next I was sitting on my hands so as not to go ...more

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Jun 16, 2012 Laura rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audio-books, fiction-20th-century, ireland, e-books, proofreading, read-2012, drama, gutenberg, 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, dp-canada

I am proofing this book (P2) for DP-Canada and it'll be published by Faded Page.

From BBC Radio 4:
In a landmark project a new dramatisation of Ulysses is broadcast across one day - morning, afternoon and evening. With live commentary from Mark Lawson, broadcasting from Dublin it celebrates the greatest Modernist novel of the twentieth century on the day on which it is set - 16th June.
The dramatisation, by Robin Brooks, follows the novel’s two iconic characters, Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus a ...more

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Jan 25, 2013 Norrin2 rated it did not like it

Shelves: hated-it

This is why I wish Goodreads had a zero stars rating. It galls me every time I see a list of the great 20th century novels and this piece of claptrap is on the top. The emperor has no clothes!

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