Reviews - Ulysses: Annotated Edition

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Ulysses: Annotated Edition

Sam Slote, Marc A. Mamigonian, James Joyce, James Joyce

3.64 AVERAGE

mairybeth's review against another edition

5.0

Audiobook was an amazing way to re-experience this novel.

katep27's review against another edition

DNF @ 25 pages

Lol yeah Joyce is obnoxious and makes me feel stupid as heck. I swear it took me like an hour to read those 25 pages and I can’t tell you wtf happened. Maybe one day I’ll conquer this but today is just not that day

gigilbell's review against another edition

5.0

the five stars are for me as a reward for how awesome and cool i am for finishing this

iltatee's review against another edition

Mitähän tästä nyt sitten sanoisi?

Tosi paljon erilaisia tyylejä! Mua piti otteessaan etenkin se, miten teknisesti taitava tää teos oli. Sisällöstä mulla meni varmasti suurin osa aivan ohi, sillä en tajunnut viittauksia, jotka liittyi a) Irlannin historiaan b) katolilaisuuteen tai c) Odysseiaan. Tosi rikas ja vähän liiankin täynnä kaikkea, pursuileva ja joka suuntaan kurkottava teos. Mut sinänsä onneksi sellainen, koska sitä kautta mäkin sain asioita irti, vaikka aiheet olivat vieraita. Pystyin omasta näkökulmastani pitämään tästä.

Musta pitää puhua myös siitä, että tää on rasistinen teos. Siis joo, Joyce käsittelee tässä juutalaisiin kohdistuvaa rasismia teeman ja aiheen tasolla, juutalaisen hahmon näkökulmasta. Siitä en osaa sanoo, miten onnistuu, mulla ei oo syvempää analyysia. Sen toteaminen, että afrikkalaistaustaisista hahmoista puhutaan kritiikittä tosi rasistisesti, ei kuitenkaan vaadi vielä itsessään syvempää analyysia. Toki ois tarpeen analysoida, miten ja miksi ja miten tää näkyy eri käännöksissä ja missä määrin sitä on käsitelty ja muuta. Mä en esimerkiksi ole kuullut kenekään sanovan, että Odysseus on rasistinen. Nyt kun miettii, niin eipä ois kantsinut muuta kauheesti odottaakaan, mutta ei kukaan ollut sitä eksplisiittisesti sanonutkaan.

Kertoo mun asemasta, että sanon ensin, että pidän teoksesta ja sen jälkeen, että se on rasistinen. Tiedostan tämän.

tkendri's review against another edition

5.0

This is a phenomenal book, well worth the effort!

drjonty's review against another edition

5.0

One of my favorite books. Ulysses is all Of life in one day and most of language, culture and everything. It has a cinematic quality and does so many new things even today.

violetturtledove's review against another edition

challenging reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

So I doubt I'm going to be able to say anything original about this book, plenty of people cleverer than me have puzzled over it before and all I can hope is that some of them were similarly confused.

It's tempting to accuse Joyce of simply being a troll; creating the most obtuse, profound- seeming nonsense of a book and then laughing at the thought of people trying to figure it out. But even taken as that it's impressive. You need an immense knowledge of the English language to run it through the woodchipper like this, and that's without touching on the various allegories.

As it quickly became apparent how impenetrable I was going to find the book, I decided that this first reading was just going to be for 'the feel'. I wasn't going to look up references, translations or even worry too much if I got muddled about the characters. Even with that there were a lot of sentences and paragraphs I had to reread several times just to get the gist of what was going on, but some of the prose is quite poetic or funny so I wouldn't say I didn't enjoy parts. But it was definitely a struggle. I did look up a few words, but mainly when I started to feel he was just inventing them.

Now that I've absorbed some of the book, by osmosis it feels, I will in future (when I feel up to it) reread and be ready to look up references and dig a bit deeper into it.