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I'd always heard that Joyce is utter trash. This hasn't helped change that impression.

• scarmig 13y ago
  Finnegan's Wake, conceded in a second. Dubliners, though? Or Portrait of an Artist? Those are readily accessible to anybody and obviously very, very good. Ulysses I like, but agree it may be too dense to merit the accolades it's given. But "trash" goes way, way over into the opposite direction.
• anigbrowl 13y ago
  You've certainly confirmed my mental stereotypes about objectivists.
  • javert 13y ago
    Hacker News comments are a very low-bandwidth channel, and I bet I'm nothing like you think I am in person. Anyway, Ayn Rand had a clearly-articulated theory of art (she wrote a whole book about it), so there's really nothing to "confirm" here. But if there were, you couldn't rationally do it from one data point anyway.
• tomjen3 13y ago
  I haven't read it, but if the excepts are anything to go buy, I was right. Books that have as many interpretations as there are readers (as opposed to a good mystery book that has four or five and gives the actual answer in the end) are as useful as the output of /dev/urandom. I freely admit that plenty of people disagree with that (or Lost wouldn't have been as popular as it was), but I still believe Joyce to be a bad writer.