There is no way I would have made it through otherwise. We read it, analyzed it, re-read and analyzed some more.
#Best audio book ulysses full
" Full disclosure: I took a course in university that was solely about this book.
Beautiful and enthralling language can keep me reading Faulkner even when it's not easy. " I get the literary and Greek references. " I probably would have liked it more if I had a degree in literature. Perhaps also the greatest, and most rewarding? Only a long life contemplating this question will provide an answer, I think. " Definitely the most challenging novel I've read. Lots of beautiful lines in there among the pondering. " The copy I have is very poorly formatted, but I think I'm getting it. " I think I'm not well-read enough to truly appreciate this book.nor is my vocabulary large enough.nor is my attention span long enough. " A great attempt to create a book, where one day and one book will contain all days and all books. the English styles paralleling the development of the foetus in the maternity ward sequence " - Keith, Found 'Circe' hard going,but otherwise rewarding, Joyce sometimes tries too hard, e.g. The film was alot easier to grasp but all the same a worthful read " - Graeme, " Yoy really need to love Joyce to read this, as this was for college only read relevant chapter. " you have to just keep chipping away at this one - but it's worth it " - Kath, I haven't read any Homer which may have assisted with the allegories. But a labour of love, jewels hidden deep but worth digging. " The hardest book to read I have ever encountered. That set me up nicely for the Christmas holidays. Actually I was quite intellectual and read it in parallel with The Odyssey. " And on my fourth attempt I get past page 100 and read the whole thing.
“Ulysses, considered by many to be the preeminent novel of the modern era, has been recorded for audio before. “Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordian folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism.” -, editorial review “To my mind one of the most significant and beautiful books of our time.” - Gilbert Seldes, Nation “In the last pages of the book, Joyce soars to such rhapsodies of beauty as have probably never been equaled in English prose fiction.” - New Republic “Ulysses will immortalize its author with the same certainty that Gargantua immortalized Rabelais and The Brothers Karamazov immortalized Dostoevsky…It comes nearer to being the perfect revelation of a personality than any book in existence.” - New York Times “Talk about understanding ‘feminine psychology’-I have never read anything to surpass it, and I doubt if I have ever read anything to equal it.” - Arnold Bennett Try it, preferably with friends or a reading-group, or in a college setting." Edifying? Always: like the systematic absorption of an encyclopedia into your brain. "Reading this book is an experience-I know that's probably a cliche, but I can't think of any other way to describe it. Full of literary references, parody, and uncensored vulgarity, Ulysses has been considered controversial and challenging but always brilliant and rewarding.
#Best audio book ulysses free
As his characters stroll, eat, ruminate, and argue through the streets of Dublin, Joyce’s stream-of-consciousness narrative artfully weaves events, emotions, and memories in a free flow of imagery and associations. Obliquely borrowing characters and situations from Homer’s Odyssey, Joyce takes us on an internal odyssey along the current of thoughts, impressions, and experiences that make up the adventure of living an average day. Joyce’s experimental masterpiece set a new standard for modernist fiction, pushing the English language past all previous thresholds in its quest to capture a day in the life of an Everyman in turn-of-the-century Dublin.
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