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3.64 AVERAGE
challenging
funny
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Riuscirà Stephen Dedalus a trovare l'ispirazione, il proprio pubblico, una figura paterna e un po' di pace spirituale?
Riuscirà Leopold Bloom a riconquistare il talamo nuziale, la paternità perduta e il cuore della propria infedele, eppur saggia, moglie?
Riuscirà il nostro Leopold almeno a tornare a casa dopo una giornata di avventure per le strade della Dublino di inizio secolo?
Riusciranno i due uomini ad incontrarsi fortuitamente?
Soprattutto, cosa ne pensa Molly Bloom?
SCOPROLO!
Riuscirà Leopold Bloom a riconquistare il talamo nuziale, la paternità perduta e il cuore della propria infedele, eppur saggia, moglie?
Riuscirà il nostro Leopold almeno a tornare a casa dopo una giornata di avventure per le strade della Dublino di inizio secolo?
Riusciranno i due uomini ad incontrarsi fortuitamente?
Soprattutto, cosa ne pensa Molly Bloom?
SCOPROLO!
Will Stephen Dedalus find his inspiration, his public, his lost spiritual father, his peace of mind?
Will Leopold Bloom reconquer his nuptial talamus, his lost paternity and the heart of his unfaithful yet trustworthy wife?
Will he make it home after a day's adventure up and down the streets of 1904 Dublin?
Will the two men succeed in fortuitously meeting each other?
More than anything else, what does Molly Bloom think of all this?
Find it out through 682 pages of fun, spelling puns & plays on words, literary criticism, stage play, nursery rhymes, many deaths plus one birth, cathechism, interior monologues, journalistic scandals, ghostly apparitions, sex, drugs and light opera music, brothels and brawls, and meet the Dubliners (nearly all of them, indeed)!
This time, I read the Italian translation at the same time, and The Bloomsday Book. Much satisfaction!
I won't add my unrequested farty opinion to the flood of words written on the subject.
Let me just share my experienced Bloomer's tips: stop thinking about how descouraging Ulysses is, and try to enjoy. If (when) you don't understand, seek for help by a companion book. If you get the idea that there is more it than you can actually understand at the moment, well, you are probably right. It simply means that, one day, you will read it again after some research. Or maybe not.
And, yes, it's forbiddingly difficult at moments. It's literature, baby, and there's nothing you can do about it.
Will Leopold Bloom reconquer his nuptial talamus, his lost paternity and the heart of his unfaithful yet trustworthy wife?
Will he make it home after a day's adventure up and down the streets of 1904 Dublin?
Will the two men succeed in fortuitously meeting each other?
More than anything else, what does Molly Bloom think of all this?
Find it out through 682 pages of fun, spelling puns & plays on words, literary criticism, stage play, nursery rhymes, many deaths plus one birth, cathechism, interior monologues, journalistic scandals, ghostly apparitions, sex, drugs and light opera music, brothels and brawls, and meet the Dubliners (nearly all of them, indeed)!
This time, I read the Italian translation at the same time, and The Bloomsday Book. Much satisfaction!
I won't add my unrequested farty opinion to the flood of words written on the subject.
Let me just share my experienced Bloomer's tips: stop thinking about how descouraging Ulysses is, and try to enjoy. If (when) you don't understand, seek for help by a companion book. If you get the idea that there is more it than you can actually understand at the moment, well, you are probably right. It simply means that, one day, you will read it again after some research. Or maybe not.
And, yes, it's forbiddingly difficult at moments. It's literature, baby, and there's nothing you can do about it.
challenging
funny
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
challenging
funny
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I am so relieved not to be reading this book anymore. Every day I opened it and wondered what Joyce had invented now to make his novel more unreadable. In theory I understand the experimental nature of it but in practice... what is all this for. Literally what is the point. I am baffled that this is considered a classic. It's not really, you know. Good? Interesting in any way?
Anyway somewhere in this 265k word salad there were quotes that I wrote down, here is one:
Anyway somewhere in this 265k word salad there were quotes that I wrote down, here is one:
“Ugly and futile: lean neck and thick hair and a stain of ink, a snail’s bed. Yet someone had loved him, borne him in her arms and in her heart. But for her the race of the world would have trampled him underfoot, a squashed boneless snail. She had loved his weak watery blood drained from her own. Was that then real? The only true thing in life? His mother’s prostrate body the fiery Columbanus in holy zeal bestrode. She was no more: the trembling skeleton of a twig burnt in the fire, an odour of rosewood and wetted ashes. She had saved him from being trampled underfoot and had gone, scarcely having been. A poor soul gone to heaven: and on a heath beneath winking stars a fox, red reek of rapine in his fur, with merciless bright eyes scraped in the earth, listened, scraped up the earth, listened, scraped and scraped.”
adventurous
emotional
funny
lighthearted
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
funny
tense
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
AHHHH IM DONEEEEE
Thank you so much, Audrey, for the audiobook in exchange for an honest review.
This book is definitely one I wouldn’t have picked up without a guide. Thankfully, with this audiobook, it made it possible for me to get through this book and with the readathon, I had the motivation to finish it yay!
Honestly, listening to an audiobook that is 27 hours long can seem very intimidating, especially with it being a classic like Ulysses. I was worried, but Sophie, the guide for Ulysses, helped so much to get through it. Even though halfway through, I was definitely struggling, her guidance was invaluable.
The words, omg! I was basically floating through them. Since English isn’t my native language, I was questioning whether I would like it as much or more in my own native language, but with translations which is the best one to get for the same experience as James Joyce intended.
I think I would definitely come back to this book via audiobook, and most likely after reading "The Odyssey," because I would need that background info. Thankfully, the guide helped out with that so I didn’t have to struggle as much.
Thank you so much, Audrey, for the audiobook in exchange for an honest review.
This book is definitely one I wouldn’t have picked up without a guide. Thankfully, with this audiobook, it made it possible for me to get through this book and with the readathon, I had the motivation to finish it yay!
Honestly, listening to an audiobook that is 27 hours long can seem very intimidating, especially with it being a classic like Ulysses. I was worried, but Sophie, the guide for Ulysses, helped so much to get through it. Even though halfway through, I was definitely struggling, her guidance was invaluable.
The words, omg! I was basically floating through them. Since English isn’t my native language, I was questioning whether I would like it as much or more in my own native language, but with translations which is the best one to get for the same experience as James Joyce intended.
I think I would definitely come back to this book via audiobook, and most likely after reading "The Odyssey," because I would need that background info. Thankfully, the guide helped out with that so I didn’t have to struggle as much.
challenging
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I’m glad I read it (Audrey listen along) but it was challenging
challenging
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated