Finnegans Wake in James Joyce Reading Group

Mar 29, 2018 Biblio Curious rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: classics-western, drama-poems, satire, writers-craft

I'm in awe. Not awesome, just in awe. If Ulysses is a 3 dimensional mind compressed onto flat black & white pages, Finnegans Wake is a journey through time for a reader's mind. It's pathways are layered because Joyce writes for communities. He writes for everyone & anyone who's curious enough to just try, to just let go of knowing and harken into bewilderment.

To say I understand & have read this book would be a shame. A real shame because the 1st reading is just barely an introduction to depths ...more

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Mar 02, 2019 Big Hard Books & Classics rated it it was amazing

I like John Bishop's edition best, bigger pages to annotate upon . . . ...more

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Dec 14, 2022 alex rated it liked it · review of another edition

I'm reviewing myself just as much as the book with these three stars ...more

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May 15, 2017 Katherine rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, faves

"read" - as in finished one cycle since it never really ends. ...more

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Aug 10, 2020 Unpil marked it as to-read · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction

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legeleselirelirairkdawaqrahydrayomudushumushumainainanagnositicibilifilichitichatitatiyankalikroreda: A hundred-letter word coined by juxtaposing words in various languages that means 'to read/read' (lege, lese, lire, irkda, aqra, yomu, dushu, anagnosi, chitat, likro, kore), with some contemporary cultural references inserted in ...more

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