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Originally posted by Alex H@17 June 2004 - 00:52
There is a theory (a good one I believe) that nobody has ever actually finished Ulysses.
Ask anyone, "Have you read Ulysses?" and they say yes, ask them what it was about.
If they say "It's just a random string of crap", you know that they have at least made an attempt.
I've made 6 attempts at it, and it is a bitch of a book.
Personally, I think Joyce just got drunk for a a few years and scribbled.
Ulysses is nowhere near as difficult as people make out. 'Random string of crap' is uber-harsh. Are you sure you don't mean Finnegan's Wake? Now that is a difficult novel and more easily applied to your epithet.