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Mar 01, 2018
Katy
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Time to move onto something I will enjoy reading.
I came. I saw. I kicked its arse!
I have never been this ambiguous about a book. On the one hand I am so glad I read it on the other I wished I had never picked it up. On the one hand I found it a masterpiece on the other it was the work of a schoolboy trying to show us that he understood multiple ways of delivering a text. At point it drew me in and I couldn't stop reading at other points I would have loved to chuck it out the window at that seagull that has been bothering me for a couple of days now as this book was even more
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This may be a "great" novel, but it is not a GOOD one.
It has been said that one cannot read Ulysses, one can only RE-read Ulysses. Having slogged through all 700+ pages, I heartily affirm that this is true. To try to glean as much understanding as I could on a first reading, I tackled Ulysses chapter by chapter, listening to a lecture on each chapter first, and then using a combination of written and audio book to snatch as much as I could. Still, it was an absurd amount of effort with little p ...more
It has been said that one cannot read Ulysses, one can only RE-read Ulysses. Having slogged through all 700+ pages, I heartily affirm that this is true. To try to glean as much understanding as I could on a first reading, I tackled Ulysses chapter by chapter, listening to a lecture on each chapter first, and then using a combination of written and audio book to snatch as much as I could. Still, it was an absurd amount of effort with little p ...more
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