Current Events > CE, quickly, give me something clever to say about Ulysses by James Joyce.

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I'm at a party and people are talking about it and I've never read it. Send help.

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Just say something about bloody and unbowed and you're good.

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Don't talk about Ulysses. Be the guy that butts in and starts talking about Finnegans Wake instead.

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Play this and call it a review:
https://youtu.be/5YOVN2BTSmI

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It wasn't as funny as his sex letters to his wife.

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It leaves Finnigan in its wake

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s0nicfan posted...

Play this and call it a review:
https://youtu.be/5YOVN2BTSmI

This is good, I know this by heart anyway

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furb posted...

It leaves Finnigan in its wake

This sounds witty, imma use it.

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Xavier_On_High posted...

This is good, I know this by heart anyway

Good thing you didn't take my advice, I was quoting Invictus.

This is what I get for my entire classical education being based off of a few throwaway lines by Ashley in ME1.

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It will leave them The Dead.

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People laughed at the "Leaves Finnigan in its wake" thing for some reason, so I assume it worked.

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My liberals arts degrees are good for something!

Checkmate STEM bros

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When you're reading Ulysses, just remember that it's not like other books. Its prose is incredibly artistic, almost to the point where you have to be paying complete attention to it to even remotely understand it. I remember listening to a chapter on Audible (though I can't remember what it was), where I thought a paragraph was absolute bollocks during the listen. Then, I closed my eyes for a second, and all of a sudden the book had an entirely new meaning. It was insane the way Ulysses could just become something so different when you take a look into the words.

Another thing you should note about Ulysses is that it's easy to get a headache reading it. Not because it's a bad book, but because of how many ideas the book is riddled with and how complex they are. Soon enough your head will fill to the brim and the rest will just sound like noise to you. Just turn it off and give it a listen the next day.

If you don't like the book, you'll definitely at least enjoy reading through the words, and picking apart the book itself and all of the artistic values that go into making it the complexity that it is.

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Freddie_Mercury posted...

When you're reading Ulysses, just remember that it's not like other books. Its prose is incredibly artistic, almost to the point where you have to be paying complete attention to it to even remotely understand it. I remember listening to a chapter on Audible (though I can't remember what it was), where I thought a paragraph was absolute bollocks during the listen. Then, I closed my eyes for a second, and all of a sudden the book had an entirely new meaning. It was insane the way Ulysses could just become something so different when you take a look into the words.

Another thing you should note about Ulysses is that it's easy to get a headache reading it. Not because it's a bad book, but because of how many ideas the book is riddled with and how complex they are. Soon enough your head will fill to the brim and the rest will just sound like noise to you. Just turn it off and give it a listen the next day.

If you don't like the book, you'll definitely at least enjoy reading through the words, and picking apart the book itself and all of the artistic values that go into making it the complexity that it is.

I really hope this is a copy-paste job, because we've already moved on from Ulysses, but thanks anyway.

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Dubliners and Portrait are very readable. Ulysses is harder and Wake is an eye splitter.

My unsolicited suggestion for those interested in Joyce but new to him is read Araby. Excellent short story and no huge narrative gimmicks.

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