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A day in the life of Leopold Bloom, whose odyssey through the streets of turn-of-the-century Dublin leads him through trials that parallel those of Ulysses on his epic journey home.
bokai: The Bloomsday Book is a book length summary of James Joyce's Ulysses. It informs the reader of the general plot, of particular references in Ulysses to events in other books (most usually Dubliners)and includes a minimum of commentary, usually focusing on the religious aspects of the novel. For someone reading Ulysses with a limited knowledge of Joyce, Ireland, or Catholicism, this book may be the deciding factor in their enjoyment of the novel itself.… (mais)
drasvola: This book is a graphic narration of Joyce's life. It's in Spanish. Very well done and informative about Joyce's troubled relation with society, his work and family relationships.
I like to pretend sometimes that I know what on Earth is going on in this novel, and I feel so proud of myself in these rare moments. It's a little known fact that you're IQ actually increases when you think about reading this novel, let alone trying to read it. And if you do try to read it (because you can only ever try), you can actually feel the sprouting of brain cells inside your head. Just be careful not to push yourself too far at once though, or you might end up with brain aneurysm. Happy reading! ( )
It took me three tries, spanning about 15 years, but with this last effort, I finally finished the book. I had hoped to feel completion came with an understanding of what Joyce set out to achieve. But alas, that was not the case. ( )
That was the longest, most grueling (five week) day in my life. This was not my first attempt to read Ulysses. It was my fourth - the last was in 1991. I know this because a bookmark in Episode 3, where I abandoned it last, was my son’s invitation to his playmate’s fourth birthday party. I am glad I stuck it out this time, although I found so much of it tedious and dense. The last episode, supposedly an hour in Molly Bloom’s head, was the best in my opinion, although I am not sure I would have felt the same had I not simultaneously read the book and listened to the audio book. The episode has nearly no punctuation and few paragraph breaks. The reader orally paused, taking the guesswork out of it. I am not sure why Joyce chose that writing device. It felt sexist to me, as if only the men were capable of proper punctuation, even though their thoughts were at least as, if not more, rambling and often random. Lots of lovely prose sprinkled in though, lyrical and illustrative. I reached my private Everest. ( )
If you like puzzles and poetry, and are not really interested in reading a story, you might like this book, at least if you take a year and read a hundred pages per month, taking time to analyze and ponder every single line. If this text was a long lost key to the 'grand unified theory of everything', or the only available record on the history and culture of the lost city of Atlantis, such an undertaking could be quite rewarding, since spending that long trying to tease some sense out of a text makes sense where the text has such value. Otherwise, who in their right mind would bother wasting so much time on so much drivel just for a tale about a couple drunk, sexist men in Dublin wandering about town after a funeral?
So, did I enjoy this book? Nope. Would I recommend this book? Nope. Are there thousands of books more worth spending time on compared to this book? Absolutely. I occasionally enjoyed the nerd-factor of recognizing references to other stories, books and authors, and there are lots of these references, but this enjoyment never quite made up for the pointlessness of focusing so much energy on just trying to focus on the text for a few more pages without getting too bored and annoyed. Some classics are just not that good, and this is one of them. ( )
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
The bard’s noserag! A new art colour for our Irish poets: snotgreen. You can almost taste it, can’t you?
With? Sinbad the Sailor and Tinbad the Tailor and Jinbad the Jailer and Whinbad the Whaler and Ninbad the Nailer and Finbad the Failer and Binbad the Bailer and Pinbad the Pailer and Minbad the Mailer and Hinbad the Hailer and Rinbad the Railer and Dinbad the Kailer and Vinbad the Quailer and Linbad the Yailer and Xinbad the Phthailer.
As we, or mother Dana, weave and unweave our bodies, Stephen said, from day to day, their molecules shuttled to and fro, so does the artist weave and unweave his image.... In the intense instant of imagination, when the mind, Shelley says, is a fading coal, that which I was is that which I am and that which in possibility I may come to be. So in the future, the sister of the past, I may see myself as I sit here now but by reflection from that which I then shall be.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.
A day in the life of Leopold Bloom, whose odyssey through the streets of turn-of-the-century Dublin leads him through trials that parallel those of Ulysses on his epic journey home.
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