Ulysses

[WatWatWat]

Ta day being the 16th. Has anyone here actually read it.

[Larrii]

Yes I said f**ng YESSSS

It's a big book and suitable for bedtime. The last lines are:

"...and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes."

[Ramone]

I'm reading the easy one he wrote Portrait of the Artist before I take that on.

[Cassandra]

I find if you read it all in one go , it's just this beautiful song

[Sancho Panza]

I read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man a few years ago as well as some of his short stories in Dubliners. All were really good and surprisingly accessible. Though I was born almost a century after James Joyce, his own experiences with the powerful forces of Irish nationalism and Irish Catholicism are somewhat similar to my own. Thus, Portrait will always have a special place in my heart.

However, I usually find fiction more difficult to read than non-fiction. I tend to get wrapped up in figurative language and its potentially infinite connotations. Thus, in the past, I have avoided large novels. Fortunately, since I started reading Kindle books when I bought my Nexus 7 tablet late last year, its one-touch dictionary/thesaurus function has been an enormous help. Indeed, I would find it almost impossible to read the rich, argot-laden work of Cormac McCarthy without it.

[Dublad77]

Araby is genius.
Id happily read it everyday.

[Martin Ward]

Some well read people here, fair play

[samlad]

Nope, I haven't. I nearly did though, but didn't

[gaze]

A portrait of the artist is on in the new theatre Templr bar,,,beside Project Theatre,,,at the back of the Connolly bookshop. at 730pm all this week..I thought the play was brilliant for 15 euro..Much simpler than reading the book...Certainly anti catholic Thoroughly recomended by me

[Larrii]