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CrazyCatLady108 t1_jdo6gfa wrote

Reply to Haven't read a book in over 5 years, just got a kindle the 3 days and already half way through my second book by [deleted]

Apologies, but your post does not contain enough for people to engage in conversation. Do you have something else to say about the book that you could edit into the text? Let me know if you edit it and I will reinstate your post.

Or, if you would prefer to share quick/brief reactions to a book you are currently reading or recently finished, you can comment in our weekly What We're Reading thread, accessible from our header atop the sub. Your book may even appear in the sub banner! Thank you.

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BooklessLibrarian t1_jdo4hch wrote

Reply to Haven't read a book in over 5 years, just got a kindle the 3 days and already half way through my second book by [deleted]

I had the same thing happen (with a different brand of ereader). There's just something nice about having books so easily available, as someone who used to live out in the sticks with no libraries available to them with any real frequency, not to mention the usefulness of the built-in dictionaries when reading stuff in foreign languages.

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Designer_Minimum691 t1_jdnyl37 wrote

Reply to comment by wjbc in I read Finnegan's Wake so you don't have to by machobiscuit

>I believe him, the man was a genius. But I’m this case he was so devious that very few people can fully appreciate his genius.

The thing is that a genius writing a book to let the world know how much of a genius he is doesn't do much good to anyone other than their ego.

Hugo, Dickens, Twain, the russians, they were all geniuses.

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Designer_Minimum691 t1_jdny99s wrote

Reply to I read Finnegan's Wake so you don't have to by machobiscuit

>Fuck if I know. I didn't understand it. I understood parts, and many of the words, and even whole sentences, but I had no idea what was happening. There isn't a story, or a plot, it's just...lots of words. a guy goes to a museum, Finnegan dies from falling off a ladder, a guy gets arrested or beaten up in a park by soldiers, there's a battle, lots of nautical and ships on sea stuff, there's a story of a grasshopper and an ant, there's a question and answer type play.....these are some of the things i "understood." It's like listening to a radio in the mountains with bad reception and constantly changing the channels, you get bits and pieces here and there, a word or phrase here and there, but nothing overall coherent.

That's EXACTLY what it felt like reading Ulysses, or rather half of it until I gave up.

The funny thing is that there were parts in the book that were very clever, like a scene in a newspaper (iirc) presented in articles or some wonderful prose, that was classic in quality.

And then the rest of the book is just ...stuff to test how annoyed you can get but keep on reading.

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