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   my_discworld said, 4 months ago

   TRUE. That *itch is brutal. One of two books I couldn’t finish.
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   gimmickgenius said, 4 months ago

   “…And the head coach
   Wants no sissies,
   So he reads to us from something called Ulysses…”
   - Allan Sherman
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   win said, 4 months ago

   Reading it to him is even faster than hitting him with it.
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   vwdualnomand said, 4 months ago

   ulysses is said to the best irish novel ever. but, it so boring. does that mean that irish fiction is boring? or, that only irish people can truly understand it, and everyone else doesn’t?
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   JoeCoolLives said, 4 months ago

   vwdualnomand said, about 1 hour ago

   ulysses is said to the best irish novel ever. but, it so boring. does that mean that irish fiction is boring? or, that only irish people can truly understand it, and everyone else doesn’t?
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   Even in the realm of Comicdom, there are things that Man is just not meant to know…
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   Michyle Glen said, 4 months ago

   Ulysses is a good book, but you had better be ready to slog through a bunch of verbal mud.
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   thehag said, 4 months ago

   Couldn’t finish it either. It is too far out of time and no longer a great book. Slogging through verbal mud are exactly the words I used when I finally gave up and gave it to Goodwill.
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   detourjones said, 4 months ago

   @thehag

   I am not wearing my rubber boots today… so I’ll wait til tomorrow to crack the cover…
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   peachyanddanny said, 4 months ago

   Pawdeen.
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    Lamberger said, 4 months ago

    Ulysses is sited as one of the top several English language books of the century by English teachers. Nobody else has it in their top 100. Or 1000.
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    Chikuku said, 4 months ago

    James Joyce is BORING. The greatest writer of the 20th century: J.R.R. Tolkien. Millions actually enjoy reading his books!!!!!
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    JungleDrums said, 4 months ago

    Always popular does not equal greatest…
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    Corey Cohen said, 4 months ago

    I really thought they would smack Truman in the head with it.
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    vwdualnomand said, 4 months ago

    another joyce book that is “great” literature is the portrait of the artist as a young man. irish tripe.
    another boring book is hemingway’s old man and the sea. the bane of high schools students ever since he won the nobel prize.
    could be worse, he could start reading zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance.
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    vwdualnomand said, 4 months ago

    let’s not limit it to english lit or american lit…there is other tripes. camus’s stranger, grass’s the tin drum, pasternak doctor zhivago, and anything from ayn rand.
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