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3.64 AVERAGE
3.64 AVERAGE
challenging
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Completing Dubliners and Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, as well as The Odyssey and Hamlet, will make this a much richer reading experience. There’s also a very helpful Ulysses online guide. All this being said, the struggle is absolutely worth it. This book is simply astonishing in its complexity and scope.
Promoted to read this massive book for a summer reading project and as a personal challenge, I was able to advance my reading comprehension in a book I found somewhat boring. I didn’t really enjoy the material or plot, but I did enjoy the “Easter egg hunt” architecture with the literary styles and themes woven throughout Ulysses. Each chapter (or episode) implements a special literary writing style. Some are old; some are new; some unheard of in 2018.
My recommendation: don’t read this book “for fun.” If you want a perplexing book to add to your bookshelf, read this. If you want to suffer along with your friends and create a plethora of inside jokes, read this. Or if your a literary sadist, read this!!
My recommendation: don’t read this book “for fun.” If you want a perplexing book to add to your bookshelf, read this. If you want to suffer along with your friends and create a plethora of inside jokes, read this. Or if your a literary sadist, read this!!
Puedo resumir mi opinión sobre Ulises en que, pese a todo, recomiendo leerlo una vez en la vida.
Creo que es una obra maestra, pero una muy pesada, compleja y bastante incomprensible. También pienso que Joyce es insufrible y brillante en partes iguales .. y que su obra efectivamente ha logrado hacerlo inmortal, porque es difícil leer Ulises sin invocarlo y odiarlo cada ciertas páginas jaja.
Leerlo (y terminarlo) fue un tremendo desafío. Creo que -sumando y restando- lo odié y lo sufrí mucho más de lo que lo disfruté. Tiene capitulos que son una tortura, un suplicio.. me preguntaba muchas veces cuál era la necesidad de escribir un libro tan incómodo de leer? Aunque también pienso que es una genialidad.. el cómo se desenvuelve en los diferentes estilos y su habilidad para extender por 700-800 páginas un sólo día en Dublín jaja. También hay capitulos que son increíbles
Creo que es una obra maestra, pero una muy pesada, compleja y bastante incomprensible. También pienso que Joyce es insufrible y brillante en partes iguales .. y que su obra efectivamente ha logrado hacerlo inmortal, porque es difícil leer Ulises sin invocarlo y odiarlo cada ciertas páginas jaja.
Leerlo (y terminarlo) fue un tremendo desafío. Creo que -sumando y restando- lo odié y lo sufrí mucho más de lo que lo disfruté. Tiene capitulos que son una tortura, un suplicio.. me preguntaba muchas veces cuál era la necesidad de escribir un libro tan incómodo de leer? Aunque también pienso que es una genialidad.. el cómo se desenvuelve en los diferentes estilos y su habilidad para extender por 700-800 páginas un sólo día en Dublín jaja. También hay capitulos que son increíbles
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
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Didn't understood shit but it is the goat book
adventurous
challenging
funny
informative
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Ulysses is a self-imposed labyrinth of knowledge, and is a puzzle that I have only begun to put together, and that I think I could work on for the rest of my life. Joyce mystifies me, and I wish I could even begin to unravel the depth of his mind. Joyce has channeled his life force into his work, and with it, it's rawness and life.
Ulysses is living and breathing, and adapts to the reader's schema so that each individual has a unique dialogue with Joyce's thoughts and takes something different away. Most of all in a book I am looking for rawness, and an attempt to understand the true nature of the individual. Joyce is a trailblazer in this—we as readers come to terms with his conceptualization of the world through his work. In other words, we are exploring through Joyce's exploration.
Like T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf, Joyce uses a vast (and incredible) array of knowledge to craft his great work, drawing inspiration from "the canon," and using Shakespeare and Homer as the foundation for a view of the world and how we ought to interact with it. I will continue reading Ulysses throughout my life, each time with a hope of discovering more about Joyce, myself, and the world.
Ulysses is living and breathing, and adapts to the reader's schema so that each individual has a unique dialogue with Joyce's thoughts and takes something different away. Most of all in a book I am looking for rawness, and an attempt to understand the true nature of the individual. Joyce is a trailblazer in this—we as readers come to terms with his conceptualization of the world through his work. In other words, we are exploring through Joyce's exploration.
Like T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf, Joyce uses a vast (and incredible) array of knowledge to craft his great work, drawing inspiration from "the canon," and using Shakespeare and Homer as the foundation for a view of the world and how we ought to interact with it. I will continue reading Ulysses throughout my life, each time with a hope of discovering more about Joyce, myself, and the world.
disgusting and overwhelming and amazing and terrible and incoherently insightful.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment
I'll read more sometime I swear it's just real long and slow-paced and I'm not feeling it right now okay!