Book Wish List

[satans_soulmate]

It's summertime which means it's also READ ALL THE BOOKS time

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[rowanwings]

Portrait of the Artist?

[satans_soulmate]

Have already read it for a module last year. Enjoyed it :) I quite fancy Ulysses but it would probably take MONTHS.

[rowanwings]

The Dubliners is the only other one I can pick out from my head, but I've never read it :P.
I have read BITS of Ulysses, whilst studying it. I don't know if I'd've understood it if I hadn't been studying it at the same time.
But good luck if you decide to have a go!

(The thing is, of course it's readable, and at least for the first half of the book you'll probably technically know what's going on at least in a linear-events sense, but the page just drips references, most of which will probably be missed on the face of it. Which would seem a shame.

On the other hand what is the point of literature if it can't be enjoyed at face value?

Indeed.)

[satans_soulmate]

Yes. Indeed. I may give it a go. But if not, Dubliners seems an accessible alternative.

I have always wanted to buy Finnegans Wake and just try it, though I think it would drive me crazy.