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3.64 AVERAGE
3.64 AVERAGE
Entiendo la calidad de la obra como obra clásica, pero creo que simplemente no es para mí. También entiendo que en teoría se necesita más de una lectura para verdaderamente apreciar el mensaje en su totalidad pero no creo que la repita nunca. A pesar de eso, me gustó la experimentación de la novela para ser de una época en que eso se hacía poco y también bastantes secuencias en las que la narración está maravillosamente lograda.
Ulysses is one of two books, simultaneously: it's a staggeringly difficult parable, or a deceptively simplistic epic. If you cross your eyes hard enough, you can make the two overlap. Just be forewarned: you'll wake up with a mother of a headache.
5 stars out of 6. This book flat-out changed the writing game.
5 stars out of 6. This book flat-out changed the writing game.
So this was a struggle for me. It took me a long time to get through it and I definitely needed help understanding it all. So the 3 stars are not for the entertainment factor but for Joyce's extremely smart writing.
Well, I certainly didn't come close to understanding all the references and allusions, but I enjoyed this nonetheless. Looking forward to another read with annotations!
There is a quote that calls cheese the corpse of milk. That made me giggle.
Everything else, I only understood about 15% of it.
Everything else, I only understood about 15% of it.
I give this both a one star and five stars. One star because it could only take someone high on their own vanity as a writer to make the reader wade through some of this text. Because I only understood a fraction of what was going on and was ready to throw it out the window a few times. Five stars because there is nothing else like it. Because it forces you to think outside of thought. Because it's bursting full of humor - it's like a 900+ page running joke about lit. And it ends with a Yes. I don't think a person can be of one mind with this book, and so I'm not.
I hate this book. I read it in one day, on Bloomsday, on a dare. It took me 17.5 hours. And all I can say is I read it so others don't have it. Just heed my warning. It's everything I despise about 20th century English language literature--pages and pages of embarrassing navel-gazing into the poverty of early 20th century masculinity dressed up in nonsense meant to be avant-garde. It was lauded at the end of the 20th century as the greatest novel of that century, mostly by Anglophone male critics, but it really has not aged well. There are many really good 20th century novels worth reading in the 21th century. This isn't one of them.