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3.64 AVERAGE
3.64 AVERAGE
Too challenging for my mood at the time. Will go back.
I am finished this book....as in, "finished with it". After reading 46 pages (and understanding about 40) I've decided that to carry on for another 650 (as my Kobo has it) will drive me crazy. I don't care if it is a classic, it is beyond my patience. There is some beautiful writing here, of that there is no doubt: lovely turns of phrase and poetry. Perhaps if I had a concordance?
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I have too many other unfinished books so I'm going to reas them first. + I think I want to read this in English not Finnish
First read this book over many days while working at the Boston Globe library in prehistoric times. Memories of the cafeteria and my poor man's bag lunch, wrestling, immersed, for an hour. I return to it often. There is more pure beauty in a single page than in libraries of other works. Never was such a sentence as this before: "Mr. Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls."It's why you read.
challenging
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Infidelity, Sexual content, Antisemitism, Grief, Alcohol
Moderate: Death
Minor: Racial slurs, Violence
I adore Joyce. that said, re-reading this was a real project, and I wouldn't have gotten through without the support of the reading group. it's a stretch, wrapping oneself around the dozen or more literary styles and modes operating here, not to mention the complex convolutions of content. I can't say "plot" exactly, because that is not what drives Ulysses--but it's a vast swath of human experience rendered as much through rhythm as language, experimentally extrapolated, presented in a spiralling transformation that engulfs and more or less drowns the reader. metemphychosis, indeed. ineluctible modality of the... verbal? imaginary? psychological?
and then Molly, lovely Penelope, the shining jewel at the close that is the reader's reward for surviving Circe. the last page is among the most beautiful passages in the entire history of literature in English.
and I was a flower of the mountain yes I said yes I will yes.
and then Molly, lovely Penelope, the shining jewel at the close that is the reader's reward for surviving Circe. the last page is among the most beautiful passages in the entire history of literature in English.
and I was a flower of the mountain yes I said yes I will yes.
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I have no idea what was going on and I did not understand large parts of it. However I’m so glad I kept going and finished it. I might do some research on it in a bit and go back to certain sections. Molly Blooms soliloquy at the end is worth reading on its own. Also, it’s quite rude for its day with large doses of misogyny.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexism