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A review by p010ne
Ulysses by James Joyce
2.0
I have finally listened to the audio version of this "Classic" and was amazed to find my favorite Holy Week music (since I first heard it performed when I was a child during WWII) "The Holy City" featured in Part 3 Chapter 4!
I found Paul Bryant's review (http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/120808667) an informative and extremely abridged overview of much of the book.
This is certainly a stream of consciousness (subconscious ?) literary work that could be a precursor to much of our contemporary "Reality" entertainment presentations. Many of the episodes seem to me to be similar to bawdy vaudevillian acts. I also viewed the YouTube full length movie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=5F_zwFhjdW8) which is also a severely abridged presentation but effectively provides an additional overview of the work.
I am in awe and highly amused by the detailed descriptions of mundane objects (also bodily) such as when one is about to draw water from a water faucet at the kitchen sink and the chemistry aspects along with the Dublin municipal infrastructure involving water is detailed!
I understand this is a loosely imagined "modern" interpretation of Homer's "Odyssey" that takes place during the single day of June 16,1904.
I found Paul Bryant's review (http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/120808667) an informative and extremely abridged overview of much of the book.
This is certainly a stream of consciousness (subconscious ?) literary work that could be a precursor to much of our contemporary "Reality" entertainment presentations. Many of the episodes seem to me to be similar to bawdy vaudevillian acts. I also viewed the YouTube full length movie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=5F_zwFhjdW8) which is also a severely abridged presentation but effectively provides an additional overview of the work.
I am in awe and highly amused by the detailed descriptions of mundane objects (also bodily) such as when one is about to draw water from a water faucet at the kitchen sink and the chemistry aspects along with the Dublin municipal infrastructure involving water is detailed!
I understand this is a loosely imagined "modern" interpretation of Homer's "Odyssey" that takes place during the single day of June 16,1904.