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?
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?___________________________
Even in the realm of Comicdom, there are things that Man is just not meant to know…
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.
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.
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.
my_discworld over 11 years ago
TRUE. That *itch is brutal. One of two books I couldn’t finish.
gimmickgenius over 11 years ago
“…And the head coachWants no sissies,So he reads to us from something called Ulysses…”- Allan Sherman
el8 over 11 years ago
Reading it to him is even faster than hitting him with it.
vwdualnomand over 11 years 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?
wronhewitt over 11 years 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?___________________________
Even in the realm of Comicdom, there are things that Man is just not meant to know…
Thehag over 11 years 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.
peachyanddanny over 11 years ago
Pawdeen.
Lamberger over 11 years 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.
JungleDrums over 11 years ago
Always popular does not equal greatest…
Corey Cohen over 11 years ago
I really thought they would smack Truman in the head with it.
vwdualnomand over 11 years 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.
vwdualnomand over 11 years 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.