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Jan 15, 2024
Political. Referenced in the passenger
Dec 25, 2023daedalus4444 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
The most challenging and rewarding novel I have ever read. If you're thinking of giving up, find a guide online and stick with it. It is so worth it in the end.
Dec 07, 2023
No kindle
Mar 03, 2023PhantomHugs rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
I'm one of the 9/10 people that could not finish the book, I picked it up out of curiosity of how "stream of consciousness" is written, however, the over use of portmanteau and relentless ramble of words made the book unreadable for me.…
Feb 02, 2023JCLMattC rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
What a read! I tackled it with Patrick Hasting's Guide to Ulysses, which helped me get my bearings. You pretty much need a guide of some sort just to make sense of what's on the page, but once you do: the resulting adventure is fantastic!
Jan 20, 2023JCLIanH rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Oh boy, I fancy myself a high-falootin' librarian and all, but this one almost killed me. I made it through, but I'm definitely going to have to have another crack at it in 10 years (preferably with the annotated Cambridge Centenary…
Jul 02, 2022lukasevansherman rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead. . ." Joyce's masterpiece turns 100 this year (2022), and it remains as influential, exhausting, and stunning as the day it was published. Yes, it's difficult but not impossible (that…
Mar 22, 2021JGengler rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
Not a book to get lost in. Ulysses demands the reader's attention, and honestly I feel as though it gives very little in return. There are a lot of stream of consciousness digressions, usually without warning, that wander very far from…
Oct 27, 2020alexqise rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
The majority of the book is set in one day, June 16 1904. The story focuses on two characters, Stephe Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, and how their day went. Stephen is a history teacher and easily angered. Leopold Bloom on the other hand acts…
Nov 12, 2019ChrisMcMil rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Before attempting to read this book, you should be aware that, while it is considered by many to be the greatest work of English literature of the 20th century, it is quite unlike almost any other novel. It certainly doesn’t have the…
Dec 13, 2018KWhite190 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
The first three chapters of Ulysses (Telemachus, Nestor, and Proteus) are Joyce's farewell to his literary stand-in Stephen Dedalus, of which Joyce's previous novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, is the subject. Part I of…
Jan 23, 2018xiaojunbpl12 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I've yet read Odyssey, neither do I know the story. I've yet been to Dubin, only travelled quite a bit in and around Clare County plus mind journey to Ireland's past. My knowledge of history, literature, philosophy are limited, though I'm…
mrob
Dec 06, 2016
It might help to read "Re-Joyce" by Anthony Burgess.
Sep 08, 2016
This is a book laden with heavy allegory, a myriad of complex references, dense poetry, eccentric structure, and that is all it is. This book feels like one man writing everything he’s ever wanted to write in one book, and that makes it…
Oct 07, 2015Liam39 rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
On my third try to read Ulysses, I attempted to just open my mind to the "stream of consciousness" writing, but after trying this for a couple of hundred pages, I gave up again.
Jun 22, 2015
Quite difficult, not worth the time to read it because it's so boring. One star is generous.
Jun 19, 2013GerryD rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This novel is #12 on my researched Top Classic Novels. I won't attempt to add to the excellent summaries already provided. This complex, difficult novel was written in 1922 between two other Top 100 novels, "Portrait of the Artist as a…
Dec 05, 2010
Can't honestly give this book a rating as I had to throw in the towel after 20 pages...I really gave it a good try but found it unreadable. Joyce's "stream of consciousness" style makes for an confusing, jolting, unenjoyable experience.…
Aug 05, 2010alexy93 rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
The greatest novel in modern English literature? ...hmm?
Jul 02, 2010wallyb rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Easily one of the most influential and challenging novels of the 20th Century. It really helps to have a guide to understand what's going on, and to provide access points (for instance, the amount of music theory in this book is enough…
Dec 29, 2008bharding rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
One of the greatest works of English Literature as well as one of its most difficult. Joyce's experimentation with the novel, with the written word, with language, and with the human mind was monumental and defined the Modernist movement…