UberBeaver
Breakdancing Soul Pilgrim
I've had Ulysses on my shelf for years. Never picked it up cause I know I'm going to take 4 months to read it.
VintagePunk said:After a couple of months of stopping and starting I've finally finished Joyce's Ulysses.
Wow. It was an incredibly hard read. I'd often find myself drifting while reading it, and then not even having a clue what I'd just read on the previous page, and having to go back and reread.
Maybe it's just me and my low-brow tastes talking, but I found it to be an over-hyped, pretentious, stream-of-consciousness set of ramblings.
I'm curious as to what others have thought. Comments?
UberBeaver said:I've had Ulysses on my shelf for years. Never picked it up cause I know I'm going to take 4 months to read it.
U2Man said:
did you get through the last 60 pages without lifting your eyes from the pages?
LarryMullen's_POPAngel said:When I'm finished with that I may start on The Handmaid's Tale. It's been on my shelf for a couple of years.
LarryMullen's_POPAngel said:
When I'm finished with that I may start on The Handmaid's Tale. It's been on my shelf for a couple of years.
LemonMacPhisto said:Children of the Men the book sounds like a great read, the movie is one of my favorites.
PlaTheGreat said:
It's a lot different from the movie, though. It's a lot more depressing, actually. I'm only a few chapters in (still) because I actually don't own the book. I just pick it up every time I get dragged to Barnes and Noble.
LemonMacPhisto said:
More depressing than the movie? What happens? Does Theo fall down a well? Do kittens jump into meat grinders?
corianderstem said:Yay! Someone bumped the book thread! I'm on book #78 of the year, and I bought two more books today!
Wasn't that Ken Jennings book great? Have you seen his blog? There's some trivia/game related posts that I usually skip, but his non-trivia/game entires are usually hilarious.
I guess he lives somewhere in my area - I hope I have a Ken encounter someday!
http://www.ken-jennings.com/blog/
LarryMullen's_POPAngel said:
When I'm finished with that I may start on The Handmaid's Tale. It's been on my shelf for a couple of years.
lazarus said:Any Douglas Coupland fans here? I just finished Hey Nostradamus! and was pretty blown away. I'm rarely disappointed in his work, but this is the strongest thing he's done in a long time, certainly better than last year's J-Pod, which may have been his career low.