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James Joyce: What say you??
Ozymandias:
James Joyce is a fuck and I hope he's getting fucked in his ass in hell.
Portrait is the worst goddamned book I have ever been forced to suffer and it fills me with murderous bored rage.
Narr:
I think the Bible is actually pretty easy to read, but then again, I'm Mormon and have therefore been attempting to study it my whole life.
There's some awesome passages, especially in the Old Testament. If you read it at a story, the whole bit about Samson and Delilah is pretty awesome. I still remember the part where he gets chained up to the pillars of a temple and then gets bored, so he shakes down the entire structure.
snaps:
joyce is a genius, there's no question about that...
i've never read ulysses. i signed up for a class on it but dropped it because the prof was just too out there.
that doesn't make the text useless. no, without having even read it i have no doubt that its the most valuable literary accomplishment of the 20th century...it's just that before you delve into such things you must be familiar with its background...one simply can'y jump into a text such as ulysses without having read its influences...in a way, that's the very essence of it. but, ulysses aside, joyce is (perhaps) far and away the finest writer of the 20th century. yet consider the fact that you're only able to dismiss difficult texts because such texts have questioned the very validity of validity (say, what is good and bad, objectively).
Felix_:
Joyce is pseudo-intellectual garbage.
'nuff said.
elcapitan:
Gosh, you've won me with your cogent and detailed argument.
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