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What are you currently reading?
jackmort:
I like to try and read two books at the same time, not exactly at the same time but you know what I mean
I'll pick something reasonably heavy-weight and something more readable for if the former aches my brain
currently I'm reading:
Moby Dick by Herman Melville and Thinner by Stephen King
Avec:
After several discussions with my literature teacher I decided to take a stab at James Joyce's Ulysses. I know the premise and I know this is going to be one of the most difficult books to pick up. Has anyone else finished Ulysses with some idea of what's going on?
Hairy Joe Bob:
Currently finishing off On the Road by Jack Kerouac. For some bizarre reason I'd never read any Kerouac, despite reading a huge amount of Burroughs and Ginsberg. Enjoying it so far.
Also, at the charity bookstall at the Co-op I picked up 'Back to the Batcave' which is the crazy memoirs of Adam West. He fucking insane.
Joseph:
--- Quote from: Avec on 26 Oct 2010, 18:09 ---After several discussions with my literature teacher I decided to take a stab at James Joyce's Ulysses. I know the premise and I know this is going to be one of the most difficult books to pick up. Has anyone else finished Ulysses with some idea of what's going on?
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Yes.
It's difficulty is massively overstated by people who are frightened of novels which veer away from more traditional storytelling practices. Ulysses is filled with beautiful language, ornate structuring, and incredible passages. It's not a book to zip through; take your time with each page, and you'll be able to draw a lot from it. Lots has been written on the book, but it's probably a better idea to take a stab without the aid of a crib or review. Have fun with it.
Then think about attacking Finnegans Wake.
Have you read Joyce at all before? Or any of the other writers of the period (who tend to be called Modernist)? Woolf, Pound, Eliot, Stein, etc?
negative creep:
I'm reading King Lear right now, for our production of that play. Also, a few days ago I started reading The Conspiracy of Catiline by Sallust. Pretty interesting so far.
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