On the Peripheral
Ah...Finnegan's Wake. That's a book that can be enjoyed only under certain conditions. For myself, it was 3 weeks of insomnia.
However, both these novels can't be summed up in a sentence or two. They aren't like Old Yeller. I could try to give synopsis on both, but it would be a very pale shadow of the books themselves.
things are quiet until hitler decides he'd like to invade russia
so, he does
the russians are like "OMG WTF D00DZ, STOP TKING"
and the germans are still like "omg ph34r n00bz"
the russians fall back, all the way to moscow
and then they all begin h4xing, which brings on the russian winter
the germans are like "wtf, h4x"
-- WW2 for the l33t
Hey, don't get me wrong, I liked reading Ulysses. Once I had been reading it for a while it was easy to get lost in. I think there are very few authors around nowadays who are willing to write what they like and then let their readers figure out how to interpret it. It is way to easy for a writer to dumb down their book and push it to a wider audience, who also have media crying out for their attention that was not arount in Joyce's time.
I have not read Finnegan's Wake - It's still on my list...
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