This Austin book club has been reading the same book for 12 years. They’re not even close to done.

KUT News ^ | 5/14/25 | Sean Saldana

[struggle]

Wait until Middlemarch

[sjmjax]

It would be funny to discover that he wrote it while very drunk or on drugs.
It was a joke of sorts.
It was never intended to make any sense.

[PeterPrinciple]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnegans_Wake#:~:text=The%20entire%20work%20forms%20a%20cycle%2C%20the%20book,of%20recirculation%20back%20to%20Howth%20Castle%20and%20Environs.%22

The entire work forms a cycle, the book ending with the sentence-fragment “a way a lone a last a loved a long the” and beginning by finishing that sentence: “riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.” Joyce himself revealed that the book “ends in the middle of a sentence and begins in the middle of the same sentence.”

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maybe some brave soul here might tell them the ending..................

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I got through with Finnegans Wake in about five minutes, myself.

[Red Badger]

It’s about a dead drunk Irishman?...................

[metmom]

It’s like trying to understand one of kamala’s speeches.

[metmom]

I have far better things to do than waste my time on someone’s mockery of literature.

[PeterPrinciple]

In 1939, Irish author James Joyce published Finnegans Wake, a piece of literature that defies comprehension.

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Defies comprehension, may that is the reason for 12 years?

[yldstrk]

I always thought James Joyce was tiresome.

[Rummyfan]

I tried Moby Dick three times and never made it through so i give them some slack.

[Rummyfan]

The thing is, Joyce virtually invented his own language for Finnegan’s Wake.

[lee martell]

Is it as “unreadable” as Marcel Proust’s “ In Search of Lost Time”?

[Borges]

Proust is perfectly readable. Just extenuated.

[j.havenfarm]

I had no idea. I saw a play a number of years ago and it was fine. Maybe the book is just pretentious gobbledygook that shouldn’t be taken seriously?

[real saxophonist]

Before I even clicked, I figured it would be something by Joyce.

[ptsal]

Like the Texas legislature, this group only works part-time.

[windcliff]

Ping

[Responsibility2nd]

I tried Moby Dick three times and never made it through so i give them some slack.

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Mega Dittoes.

[Responsibility2nd]

Shatner has a message for this one page at a time book club....