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So, so, many. Moby Dick; The Scarlet Letter; Lolita; Ulysses; Et Tu, Babe; Lexicon; Malone Dies;....
by leephillips 6y ago
So, so, many. Moby Dick; The Scarlet Letter; Lolita; Ulysses; Et Tu, Babe; Lexicon; Malone Dies;....
- gverrilla 6y agoulysses - you gotta be kiding. did you read that?
- leephillips 6y agoTwice, and I dip into it now and then and read a chapter. It’s one of my favorites.
- gverrilla 6y agoI think Joyce was great, and I have a lot of respect for what he's done on his work regarding form, but I tried really hard and it was unbearable to keep on reading Ulysses - I got past half, but had to abandon - and this is coming from someone really used to 'hard' reads.
- QuesnayJr 6y agoI think the conceit (the different styles for different chapters) sometimes overwhelms the book, but it has a lot of highlights, like the opening and closing chapters. I think of this quote often: History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
- dan_hawkins 6y agoUlysses is Irish though.
- leephillips 6y agoSo is Malone Dies; maybe I misinterpreted the question, if it was asking only about American novels.