James Joyce and Ulysses

[Spanaway Vin]

Can anyone here say they've picked up Ulysses, read it, and was like "yeah, I get at least 50% of the literary allusions and know wtf is going on in this book?"

This is a bit of a shift from a summer reading Harry Potter 7 and His Dark Materials series.

[mosdef]

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Can anyone here say they've picked up Ulysses, read it, and was like "yeah, I get at least 50% of the literary allusions and know wtf is going on in this book?"

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No. Half the people who say they finished it are lying, the other half don't have a clue what anything means beyond what they are told by others (this includes university professors).

I got half way through and gave up. When I realized I hated picking it up and that I was only reading it because it's a "classic" I didn't see the point in going any further.

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This is a bit of a shift from a summer reading Harry Potter 7 and His Dark Materials series.

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I'm sure it is - why don't you read something in the middle?

[skunkworks]

So what, I'm pretty sure James Joyce doesn't have 30,000+ posts. Ulysses by a mile.

[Peter Harris]

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So what, I'm pretty sure James Joyce doesn't have 30,000+ posts. Ulysses by a mile.

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*whoosh* over the heads of the newbie OOTiots.

This needs more love.

[xorbie]

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So what, I'm pretty sure James Joyce doesn't have 30,000+ posts. Ulysses by a mile.

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*whoosh* over the heads of the newbie OOTiots.

This needs more love.

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Yes I see what he did here. El Diablo used to be named Ulysses and has 30,000 posts. James Joyce died long before 2+2 was even started and therefore has 0 posts. Very clever.

[skunkworks]

xorbie -- I think you might enjoy snacking on my genitals.

[Georgia Avenue]

Dubliners>Portrait>Ulysses>Finnegan's Wake

And I've read them all, tho I'm stretching the definition of reading there. My eyes have touched each word.

[Kimbell175113]

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Dubliners>Portrait>Ulysses>Finnegan's Wake

And I've read them all, tho I'm stretching the definition of reading there. My eyes have touched each word.

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[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] Dubliners, though I haven't ever gotten through Ulysses or Finnegan's

[miajag]

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Dubliners>Portrait>Ulysses>Finnegan's Wake

And I've read them all, tho I'm stretching the definition of reading there. My eyes have touched each word.

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[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] Dubliners, though I haven't ever gotten through Ulysses or Finnegan's

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I'm pretty sure nobody has ever actually read Finnegans Wake.

[Taso]

wow, for some reason I thought this was like the children's version of Homer's The Odyssey (6th grade reading, Ulysses) and I was wondering how anyone could not "get" even Homer's Odyssey, let alone the children's version. One wikipedia page later and I see I was way off.