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Kathleen Clare Waller's avatar

As a Joyce fan, I enjoyed this very much, Eleanor & Troy! I love this book for the same reasons you say you do love parts of it and for me that is enough. I think we each need to form our opinions without doing what the (patriarchal) critics tell us. This book is very interesting to me, but Dubliners I find about 100 times better and perhaps it is because of the tight editing of the short story as well as the way they so carefully all fit together and lead to The Dead. I have never understood why it is not his most celebrated work. But then I don’t really care as I’m happy to enjoy what I choose to enjoy!

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David Roberts's avatar

I've never read all of Ulysses but I've read the first chapters many times, before he started playing style tricks. I think his tricks are tedious. But his "normal" prose is wonderful to me. I remember many lines and scenes from those first half dozen chapters or so.

Plus I won a word game where only single words were allowed as clues because I could cite Joyce in Ulysses using lookingglass as one word. So there's that.

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