Surell

In my free time I read Dubliners, pretty great so far, up to Two Gallants if I remember right, the only story I haven't liked as much so far has been "Eveline" (if I remember that right). I've already read "the Dead" and "Arraby," which I love but am skipping so I can move through the book at a pace other than reverse.

I got it in a big ass portable Joyce type thing, with his only play and I think all of Portrait of the Artist... I'm bummed because it pairs down Finnegan's Wake and and Ulysses, which i'm sure are pretty great. It's got poetry though, which i'm hoping is good, since he wasn't as renowned for it from what i can tell.

BUT TODAY i read the Miller's Tale :( it's going to take hours because the Scottish brogue in my head talks SOOOO slow.

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Is the poetry Chamber Music? That's a pretty good collection and Syd Barrett agrees:

On the subject of Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake, Ulysses is long and chunky but once you begin to grasp the subject and what he's going for it makes it a lot easier. Finnegan's Wake is...ugh. I give him mass credit for writing it and if I had a phd in linguistics and knew Joyce personally (I think that's the only way you're going to get all of the jokes without being James Joyce), it'd probably be hilarious. It's very hard to sit down and read that one as a novel though, but the redeeming moments are quite comical/surreal. I've yet to finish Finnegan.

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Surell

It is Chamber Music, and that's way cool! Gotta dig it if Barrett did, he was an outlier.

Now I now Ulysses is grounded in Odysseus, I'm not sure by how much but I also haven't read Odysseus or the Illiad so I'm a little lost there anyway. I never knew Finnegan's Wake was so opaque (ooh yeah that word), I'd heard it come up a few times before but probably in super intellectual debates my brain has since tried to repress. Maybe the book will give me a starting point to see if I can handle any linguistic mind-fucking, Portrait... has already proven pretty difficult itself.

Thanks for the tips!

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I've been wanting to read it for a while. I go back to college in a few weeks so it seemed like a good time to do so.

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Engine

Never heard of it.
I'd like to know what you think of Infinite Jest, though (I assume you're into it seeing as how you made your custom user title Himself). Did you finish it?

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Right now I'm going through Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" collection again, in anticipation of new Sandman material being released for the first time in like 20 years. So excited.

I just finished Ray Kurzweil's "The Singularity is Near." An optimistic but also very carefully and patiently argued view of our future and the way we will use emerging technologies to better the world. Pretty mind-blowing stuff.

Before that, Martin Amis's "London Fields."

Sansa Stark

just finished this one not too long ago and it was really good

probably rereading this next, since I just found a digital copy when I've been looking for ages

Sansa Stark

God-king of contemporary fiction

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Billy Crystal- Still Foolin Em

Pretty funny light hearted accounts of Crystals life and impending doom called age. I've enjoyed it. Finished Jack Grishams Untamed, and found it enjoyable.

djchameleon

oh man, I want to read this. He was on Bill Maher talking about it and I bet it's worth it.

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