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craiggle99 's review for:
Ulysses
by James Joyce
FINISHED!!!
This was my 4th attempt to read ULYSSES over the course of about 10 years, and finally progressed through the whole work. I'd read for 50 or so pages, put it to the side while I read something else, then came back to it and picked up where I left off. Not that the book didn't hold my attention, because it did, but that the density and complexity of the text I could only handle in those smaller segments. Hence taking 10 months from fresh start to last page.
I know this is on several "Top-100" novels lists (http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098best-novels-list.html) and I can see why. The depth, the breadth, the complex vocabulary and sentence structure, and the inventiveness of Joyce's narrative over the course of the day in the live of his central character.
I found that I needed to read quietly, audibly, to myself over many of the passages in order to really perceive the cadence and rhythm of the content. This was particularly true in the ending chapter/sentence... Molly Bloom's soliloquy. That took me several days to read.
My favorite section was the one just prior to that... the Question and Answer session between the 'narrator' and the principle character that the narrator is questioning... I don't remember if that was Leopold Bloom or Stephen Dedalus.
This was my 4th attempt to read ULYSSES over the course of about 10 years, and finally progressed through the whole work. I'd read for 50 or so pages, put it to the side while I read something else, then came back to it and picked up where I left off. Not that the book didn't hold my attention, because it did, but that the density and complexity of the text I could only handle in those smaller segments. Hence taking 10 months from fresh start to last page.
I know this is on several "Top-100" novels lists (http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098best-novels-list.html) and I can see why. The depth, the breadth, the complex vocabulary and sentence structure, and the inventiveness of Joyce's narrative over the course of the day in the live of his central character.
I found that I needed to read quietly, audibly, to myself over many of the passages in order to really perceive the cadence and rhythm of the content. This was particularly true in the ending chapter/sentence... Molly Bloom's soliloquy. That took me several days to read.
My favorite section was the one just prior to that... the Question and Answer session between the 'narrator' and the principle character that the narrator is questioning... I don't remember if that was Leopold Bloom or Stephen Dedalus.