Posted on 01/13/2021 9:51:51 AM PST by Borges
Joyce and Faulkner are the most overrated authors ever.
Virginia Woolf right behind them?
I’ve tried twice to read it. Maybe I’ll try again this year. Not like there’s anything on TV.
Joyce is best read aloud with an Irish accent.
Seriously.
Throw in J.D. Salinger and I’ll agree........................
Bookmark.
While Under water........................
Joseph Campbell has probably written the best stuff to assist the reader in working through James Joyce:
https://www.amazon.com/Mythic-Worlds-Modern-Words-Collected/dp/1608684172
(Buy it locally—hopefully from a non-leftist bookseller.)
Have you ever read any Salinger except catcher?
Once was enough.
My HS English teacher was ‘fresh out of college’ and made us read that trash novel. We had to get written permission from our parents to approve it because of ‘sex’ in the novel.
She fawned over it like it was the greatest piece of literature on earth. Why in hell she thought having a bunch of HS kids read a novel about a dumbass HS kid trying to get laid, was a good thing, I’ll never know.....................
As a BONUS, we had to read The Sun Also Rises by Hemmingway....................About a guy who can’t get laid......................
Never tried reading "Ulysses" but I have it on the shelf. As for "Moby Dick", I've read it twice and plan to read it a third time.
No I meant something other than CITR. Read his short stories like “For Esme with Love and Squalor”. Salinger was a D-Day vet and described the trauma those soldiers went through with great poignancy.
At least Salinger could write a coherent narrative. You may not like his content but he was a decent writer.
Ever read Dubliners? Joyce could tell stories coherently when he wanted to.
Faulkner is hard to follow sometimes and I grew up surrounded by all things Yoknapatawpha County
Cormac McCarthy .....whose work I confess I like as well
Is similar
You have to go back and reread
I managed to struggle my way through the whole thing when I was in college, over 40 years ago. All I remember about Ulysses was that I thought it was incredibly boring. Moby Dick was just as long but far more interesting to read.
I read Ulysses. But I needed cliff notes to get through it understandably. Truth of the matter is...I’m more of a “Two Years Before the Mast” kind of guy.
James Joyce, the most over-rated writer of the 20th century. Just awful.
“Joyce is best read aloud with an Irish accent.”
And a belly full of whiskey.
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