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3.64 AVERAGE
3.64 AVERAGE
la vida es eso que pasa mientras uno está intentando comprender a Joyce
challenging
funny
reflective
slow-paced
challenging
emotional
funny
mysterious
sad
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: Alcoholism, Child death, Cursing, Death, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Grief, Death of parent, Cultural appropriation, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Colonisation, Classism
adventurous
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
2 and a half stars. I hated reading this for most of the book to be honest, but I'm so proud of myself for finishing (and also, one brownie down, considering forcing myself through it again at some soon point, stupid man that I am). Anyway:
Strange thing—reading after university. Each pun-pardoned book is another feather-weight, all the way from nursery rhymes to modernist treatises, McDonald the old fantasy of Ulysses . Already plugging the gaps, as with Liv Coleman’s Bleak House and the inspiration behind the inspiration of Grant Hart’s The Argument (that’s two inspirations, not three. If you’re at the apple you’ve gone too far). Struck quickly on my shoulders, I shouldered Ulysses in a cruel month and crippled my way through to today, soldiering onwards to review. A one-perspective narrative for all intents and purposes, focusing on El Boom explored via James Joyce’s cultural influences. There are flash moments among much long-winded humdrum tedium, and by making the men and women merely players in some pursuant trivial scrabblebattle, the retrospective arranger did a disservice to the story put in motion. To our hero with pants splattered over his tights, super-man, Leopold Paula Bloom. Hilarious.
Strange thing—reading after university. Each pun-pardoned book is another feather-weight, all the way from nursery rhymes to modernist treatises, McDonald the old fantasy of Ulysses . Already plugging the gaps, as with Liv Coleman’s Bleak House and the inspiration behind the inspiration of Grant Hart’s The Argument (that’s two inspirations, not three. If you’re at the apple you’ve gone too far). Struck quickly on my shoulders, I shouldered Ulysses in a cruel month and crippled my way through to today, soldiering onwards to review. A one-perspective narrative for all intents and purposes, focusing on El Boom explored via James Joyce’s cultural influences. There are flash moments among much long-winded humdrum tedium, and by making the men and women merely players in some pursuant trivial scrabblebattle, the retrospective arranger did a disservice to the story put in motion. To our hero with pants splattered over his tights, super-man, Leopold Paula Bloom. Hilarious.
How can you rate a book like Ulysses? It was hilarious, frustrating, brilliant, galling, eyerolling, evocative, stressful and perplexing all at once. I’m still reeling from it.
challenging
emotional
funny
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
challenging
funny
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
Boy oh boy. Never in my life have I read such a long book and have had so little thoughts. I will say that I found it to be surprisingly funny. But I get why it got banned...
challenging
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:
Yes
I feel like I need the SparkNotes summaries to grasp what's going on in the story fully. The writing style and subtle jumps from real life to hallucinations or subtle jumps from internal thoughts to spoken dialogue also made it difficult to get through the story. It's an interesting undertaking for readers, and I'm glad I can finally seem impressive by saying I've read it.