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Don’t read the book. Listen to it. I got a lot out of listening to a performance of the book, by Irish actors on RTE. It’s a lot more fun than reading the bo

Don’t read the book. Listen to it. I got a lot out of listening to a performance of the book, by Irish actors on RTE. It’s a lot more fun than reading the book. There’s a podcast for it: https://www.rte.ie/culture/2022/0610/1146705-listen-ulysses-james-joyce-podcast/ https://www.rte.ie/culture/2022/0610/1146705-listen-ulysses-...

colechristensen 2y ago
I have an audiobook read by an Irish narrator and while that's objectively great, the voice acting is top notch... a moderate to heavy Irish accent was rather extra unhelpful in the realm of any of it making sense for more than two minutes at a time.
TechDebtDevin 2y ago
That's honestly sacrilege unless doing so for accessibility reasons.
- samatman 2y ago
  On the contrary, Bloomsday recitals are orthodoxy.
  - Avid8329 2y ago
    Exactly. Please can we stop gatekeeping somebody enjoying a book that's known to be highly inaccessible. However one chooses to engage with Ulysses is perfectly fine.