[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.

[metmom]

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

[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”?

[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]

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

[Macoozie]

Finnegans Wake - many of us got through it.
Got the grade.
And moved on with life.

Joyce and Proust were the Comparative Literature Duo one took on because somebody smarter told you said it was important.

Then you grew up and realized they were full of shiiite.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

The ravings of a syphilitic drunk.

[x]

Lots of fun at Finnegans Wake ...

They aren’t going to get any “meaning” out of it though.

[KarlInOhio]

Is there a Ulysses In Real Time club? You have to read Joyce’s other big novel in 24 hours to match the story’s pace.

[omni-scientist]

This sounds so much like the workings of Congress.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“ It’s a work that’s so dense, one group that started in Austin has been working on it for more than a decade.”

Get a job hippies.
And put down the dope