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It works just fine for fiction. Ulysses is a very special edge case in the pantheon of all literature, so it's no surprise it doesn't work well for this one cas
by acabal 2y ago
It works just fine for fiction. Ulysses is a very special edge case in the pantheon of all literature, so it's no surprise it doesn't work well for this one case.
- bryanrasmussen 2y agoHow's it handle Finnegans Wake?
- robin_reala 2y agoGot another 11 years to wait before that enters the US public domain, unfortunately.
- Avid8329 2y agoUlysses has mostly "real" words while Finnegans Wake is largely made of portmanteaus. It'll be interesting to see the results!
- lapetitejort 2y agoI just ran it and got "segmentation fault (core dumped)". Is this one of Joyce's silly sentences he's famous for?
- AlbertCory 2y agoHe was such a futurist, that Joyce /s
- AlbertCory 2y ago> It works just fine for fiction how about some other well-known novels and their scores?
- throwup238 2y agoYou can sort their list by reading ease: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks?page=21&per-page=48&sort=reading-ease https://standardebooks.org/ebooks?page=21&per-page=48&sort=r... A lot of John Stuart Mill and John Dewey
- AlbertCory 2y agoOK, I tried that. Among the hardest fiction: Moll Flanders Tristram Shandy Gulliver's Travels Robinson Crusoe
- dudinax 2y agoThe Sun Also Rises is easier than Winnie the Pooh. I can buy that.