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3.64 AVERAGE
3.64 AVERAGE
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
MAGICAL, CRIED.
challenging
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
slow-paced
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Man oh man am I glad I didn’t go to grad school. It’s fun to find something that makes me feel stupid, but not so much for 1000 pages.
It’s said that you can’t read Ulysses, you can only re-read it. So I won’t give any stars yet. I’m going to start rereading it tonight, with the help of guidebooks, at a slow pace till Bloomsday 2020. So see you here then :-)
I think in itself the book is clearly an artistic achievement and Joyce is definitely very smart and a good writer. But it is a slog and not necessarily a very rewarding one. I feel like the only way to really get this book is to read it multiple times and I simply don’t want to do that. So I think that just reading it once is kinda a waste of time but it’s whatever. I’d only recommend it if you like really like it, and I did not.
challenging
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Reading Ulysses felt like being dropped in the middle of someone else’s brain and told, “good luck, kid.” It’s messy, brilliant, frustrating, funny, and gross. Sometimes all in the same paragraph.
Stephen Dedalus broods. Leopold Bloom buys kidneys, carries soap forever, and quietly aches his way through Dublin. Molly Bloom gets the last word, and it’s glorious. In between, there are pints, puns, death, lust, racism, nationalism, boogers, birth, absurdity, and about a million narrative experiments that either left me in awe or completely lost.
Joyce can make you laugh at the bleakest things, cringe at how human his characters are, and then, in one unexpected line, punch you straight in the soul. He’s unapologetic in how much he demands of you as a reader. I hated it. I loved it. I’m not sure I’ll ever recover.
The final pages... Molly’s voice, her contradictions, her yes.... made all the slogging, the stylistic whiplash, the endless tall tales and detours worth it.
To answer the only questions that matter at the end... Did I make it? Did I like it? Will I read it again (one day)?
Stephen Dedalus broods. Leopold Bloom buys kidneys, carries soap forever, and quietly aches his way through Dublin. Molly Bloom gets the last word, and it’s glorious. In between, there are pints, puns, death, lust, racism, nationalism, boogers, birth, absurdity, and about a million narrative experiments that either left me in awe or completely lost.
Joyce can make you laugh at the bleakest things, cringe at how human his characters are, and then, in one unexpected line, punch you straight in the soul. He’s unapologetic in how much he demands of you as a reader. I hated it. I loved it. I’m not sure I’ll ever recover.
The final pages... Molly’s voice, her contradictions, her yes.... made all the slogging, the stylistic whiplash, the endless tall tales and detours worth it.
To answer the only questions that matter at the end... Did I make it? Did I like it? Will I read it again (one day)?
“yes I said yes I will Yes”
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
reflective
relaxing
medium-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
Este livro te desafia e diverte, passeando por muitos estilos e contando muito mais do que apenas a saga de Bloom.
É uma colcha de retalhos de personagens e situações durante um dia, que mistura sensações e acaba por ser uma obra prima do modernismo.
Sensacional.
É uma colcha de retalhos de personagens e situações durante um dia, que mistura sensações e acaba por ser uma obra prima do modernismo.
Sensacional.
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
Obviously this is one of the seminal texts of modern-postmodern literature, so I feel like I have to respect it, especially since it did influence me hugely as a reader and writer. However I would hold in contempt any book about the human condition, the internal experience of men— where they just think about fucking and eating and defecating? It takes too long (no novel needs to be more than 400 pages) to reach a conclusion that ostensibly foils the very male main body, and yet, all Molly thinks about is fucking and eating and defecating, too.
There are parts that lean way too far into the opacity and obscurity of the text. There's that famous quote by Joyce: "I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality." This is not a good thing. He was a brilliant enough writer that he could have written a novel that is both famous for centuries AND genuinely enjoyable— but Ulysses is not that
There are parts that lean way too far into the opacity and obscurity of the text. There's that famous quote by Joyce: "I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality." This is not a good thing. He was a brilliant enough writer that he could have written a novel that is both famous for centuries AND genuinely enjoyable— but Ulysses is not that
Liked Moby dick a bit more bit this hit the spot. Coulda used 5 more chapters of Molly's and slash the middle metempsychosis visions