Likewise with Finnegan's Wake.
I just don't like it.
Dickens, Steinbeck, Jane Austen, Bronte, et al - I could read them all day long.
Joyce? Just a bore.
LOL! Love your tagline!
“Your people I do not understand,
So to you I shall put an end
And you’ll never hear surf music again”
The only book I could not finish? Moby Dick by Melville.
I’ve spent hours on it. 20 or 30 hours or more. Didn’t even get halfway through.
Joyce was meant to be read aloud—with an Irish accent.
Reading it as text is like a blind person looking at a painting—there is no there there.
Slainte! I agree with you.
I think I would rather strike my thumb with a hammer, and legitimately curse, and that would be more sensible than to read the screed.
Someone must have been getting paid by the word. Or there’s an inside joke there that we are not privy to.
Life is to short to be consumed by illogic.