Anyone read Ulysses by James Joyce

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Reading Moby dikk by. Melville, then Mumbo Jumbo by. Ismael Reed, then Ulysses gave me an appreciation for that bizarre post-modern style.

Ulysses was a bit of a chore to read, but after several weeks and some vigorous note-taking I made it through.
 

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Reading Moby dikk by. Melville, then Mumbo Jumbo by. Ismael Reed, then Ulysses gave me an appreciation for that bizarre post-modern style.

Ulysses was a bit of a chore to read, but after several weeks and some vigorous note-taking I made it through.
Moby dikk is my favorite novel
 

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I read it, technically. I enjoy struggling through tough books but this one was another level.
Only finished it out of stubbornness.
 

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Reading Moby dikk by. Melville, then Mumbo Jumbo by. Ismael Reed, then Ulysses gave me an appreciation for that bizarre post-modern style.

Ulysses was a bit of a chore to read, but after several weeks and some vigorous note-taking I made it through.
Got Mumbo Jumbo and Yellow Back Radio Broke Down on my shelf rn :blessed:
 

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Really? I still haven't read but I have been looking for the right version with lots of annotations
Yea, each chapter has a different style, it introduced a lot of techniques that have been the basis for modern novels the last 100 years.

I'd recommend listening to some lectures on Joyce by Robert Anton Wilson and Terrence McKenna, their encyclopeidic-psychedelic style enable them to give pretty thorough descriptions of what Joyce was up to, though they mostly talk about Finnegans Wake.
 

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Yea, each chapter has a different style, it introduced a lot of techniques that have been the basis for modern novels the last 100 years.

I'd recommend listening to some lectures on Joyce by Robert Anton Wilson and Terrence McKenna, their encyclopeidic-psychedelic style enable them to give pretty thorough descriptions of what Joyce was up to, though they mostly talk about Finnegans Wake.
Already listened to McKenna and Wilson on Finnegan wake. I'm a huge Joyce fan. I felt reading Portrait was synchronistic for me and it really did change my life. I'll probably never read finnegans wake but I'll hit Ulysses before the end of year.
 
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