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02-07-2010, 12:41 AM | #1216 | |
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Its brilliant. I don't understand why people say its crappy or outdated.
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It doesn't. The only redeeming part of the novel, IMO, are the fleeting moments where you get the analogies and can tie it all together for a paragraph or two.
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02-07-2010, 02:15 AM | #1218 |
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My problem is that during the semester I rarely get any pleasure reading.
I finished The Book of Basketball on Monday. I assigned my Freshman English class Candide over the course of a week, but sadly, I don't think are sharp enough to get the stinging satire, which is troubling, given that it's laid on so thick. I want to start Dr. Faustus, but I've got teaching-related readings to do.
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02-07-2010, 02:26 AM | #1219 | |
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BTW Hamas, how about some light reading of Finnegan's Wake?
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02-07-2010, 02:43 AM | #1220 | |
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I've never had a desire to ever read Joyce again. I actually have a Dover Thrift edition of Dubliners, but I've never opened it. Personally, the most difficult text to read that I've ever encountered is The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin. However, it was unfinished when he committed suicide, but the fragmented nature of the construction probably wouldn't have been any more tied together even had he finished it.
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02-07-2010, 06:58 AM | #1221 |
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Don't start with Ulysses, seriously. Not unless you're into disjointed, modernist stuff. If you want a nice introduction to Joyce, you should read Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man or Dubliners. I've read Ulysses twice, and I still don't really like it or even get it that well. And this is from someone who actually likes reading stuff like Pynchon, Gaddis, and Wallace.
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02-07-2010, 10:49 AM | #1224 |
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Phin,
Have you ever read any Don DeLillo? I've always had a desire to read White Noise, because he wrote it while teaching where I went to grad school and somewhat drew from experiences there (regardless of the death of the author).
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Might want to acclimatize yourself with 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' more accessible and terribly gripping at times. I imagine it would be exponentially moreso if one were raised Catholic.
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White Noise is very good, and it's not even that long or hard to get through. I really, really liked his novel Underworld, though (but that's because my tastes run toward encyclopedic, vast pomo novels). White Noise is, of course, considered his best work.
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There are extended fevered ruminations on Catholic guilt. The eternity of rot and digestion by worms attendant to the tugging of one's giblets and the like.
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They resonated pretty well with my Baptist guilt as well when I was about 20 years old.
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