Thomas Kimberly Lee Mary Miller Jeffrey

Much of the book's reputation for difficulty (unjustly earned, I concur with Stephen) is mainly due to the specificity of its local color of Dublin, the places, people, and proper nouns that litter every page that are remote to American readers in the 21st century. The difficulty of deciphering these references has been greatly ameliorated thanks to the internet, but one can still ignore, if one chooses, the vast bulk of the opaque references and enjoy the richness of Joyce's prose and renderings of universal human consciousness. Upon first engaging with the work at the age of 40, it was the first novel that when reading I felt fully engulfed in the mind of the protagonists and author. It is the most stupendous novel ever written in the English language, one that you can return to again and again.

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In geen wereld heeft zij dit boek gelezen, ook de anglicismen in haar verhaal zijn erg jammer.

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Hoogeveen lag dacht ik in overijsel niet in Friesand.

Gays love this trash, and the Great Gatsby is overrated.

Geweldig boek, een Meesterwerk.

"I have no idea what it's like in Dutch" is the best review of Ulysses i think ive ever heard

The problem with Ulysses is that because of it's reputation as the "greatest work of literature ever," you gointo it primed for something serious and intellectual, whereas the book doesn't take itself seriously at all. When it shows you something that doesn't make sense, you're inclined to feel like you don't understand the joke when the joke is how incomprehensible it is. So I'm just reading it for the prose and pay no mind to the supposed plot because there isn't one. Or rather, I'm not missing much by ignoring it.

Ik Jan cremer,verslonden onder het genot van bier en zware sjek ,hail, hail rock 'n roll,weer een icoon minder r.i.p.

Happy Bloomsday! 🎉🎉🎉

danku

Started reading it last week for the first time, and I love it. I'm just moving on to chapter 2. I like it.

Thank you. You gave me such good information❤❤❤ keep this up

Heeft een hoofd als een schilderij van Frans Hals

LOVE AND MANAGED TO SEND THE MAN AN EMAIL 2 DAY TO THANK HIM.

Fry hits the nail on the head here. A great introduction, for its brevity, that I imagine would make any reader desire to, as he says, return to it again and again and again.

When a book critic chooses this book as the best thats kinda like a movie critic saying Citizen Kane or The Godfather is the best movie.

You have something here Taran, i really hope you will continue writing stories about Fletcher and mqybe even a part 5?

I love this novel. Totally agree!

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Toen ik de thumbnail zag van deze video zag dacht ik van: “wat gaat deze crackjunk lookalike me nou vertellen over dit boek dat ik moet lezen voor scoro” maar ik vind deze nigga wel een goeie gast💯💪 keep it up my nigga!

I watched brother where art thou. Does that count?…

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There's not a chance that Fry understands all of the obscure Irish references, both in gaelic and in reference to obscure parts of Dublin.

the details in a book like Ulysses matter.... but the constant reference that Leopold is a "Jewish man" misses the whole point of why Joyce built him the way he did... to be truly Jewish, one has to be born of a Jewish woman, having a Jewish father is not enough... on the other hand, in Europe at that time, anyone with even ¼ or less Jewish was seen as a Jew by many and untrustworthy ... The fact that Joyce made Leopold a sort of mis-fit among Jews as well as Gentiles is a major part of the character and his isolation in society.

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I love Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man but HATE Ulysses. The content of the plot is great but it's way too difficult to read. I wish Joyce had written it differently.

They put glass in the Turkish Delight.

I tried it in English... and I failed miserably back then. That was many decades ago and I was still a child, at least mentally. I should pick it up, again. The book is certainly true... but I am not sure how much of a joy it is to read unless English is truly your first language and your profession, which, of course, it is for Stephen Fry.

The secret is that they’re human.

I loved this deeply touching book. It's incredibly moving, and well written. The only issues I had with it is that some of the dialogue between the two main characters, especially toward the end of the book, is unconvincingly arch. But putting that aside, it's a beautiful, readable book. Movie please.

What a joy that he mentioned Dutch as his random example. Am reading the boldly retitled recent Dutch tandem translation "Ulixes" side by side with Joyce's original, even though I could read the English directly and purely -- oh the immortally childish pleasure of blasphemy!

Mooi verteld vrouwkje🎉

OK.

Liberal bullshitter. Hasn't read Joyce.

but... the sentences make no sense.

What an idiot summary

First, XD moet van Nederlands les.

ik ben nu aan het begin van deel 3! Heel leuk boek sinds ik deel 1 had gelezen wou ik meer!!! Ik heb binnen 4 dagen deel 1 en 2 uitgelezen 😅😅 (update k heb alle boeken gelezen en K wil ze weer lezen 😭😂)

die blijken Afghanezen...

What!? The Great Gatsby blows hard!!

can't understand loved the book

Wow, I am shocked that this pretentious gasbag chose the world's most pretentious book.

I'm a year 10 student in the uk and during the holidays the school offered me a book to read for the summer as a summer assignment, one of the reasons they gave me the book is that i apparently have the reading age of 12 instead of 15 since english wasn't really my first language, another reason they gave me this book is i also study geography in my gcse's after reading halfway of the book i did a bit of research about it and coincidentally the book was similarly made about the poverty of the Philippines and how life is different there as a filipino myself i really enjoyed reading this book and pretty surprised how well and accurately made it is

Good ol' Mr. Fry...always down for a decent trolling. 😂

WE ALL LOVE ULYSSES !

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