Dull as fuck.
The James Joyce: Dull as fuck faux-Irish bar in Prague.
It was shit, the clue was in the name.
However, it can't even claim to be the most ridiculous faux-Irish bar in Prague.
That 'honour' goes to 'O'Che's' which bills itself as the world's only Irish/Cuban bar.
That is all.
haha my friend got me a t-shirt from there
i don't wear it.
'O'Che's' that is
I once had to read Ulysses
wish i hadn't, wish i had let my family die instead
^^ This! ^^
James Joyce: Utter tit of a man.
philistines!
Ulysses is ACE
^
lol
besides you too young to have read Ulysses
Guinness and cigars
What's not to like?
More like Rugby tours and The Cranberries
on repeat for all eternity!
1: o'ches - best thing ive ever heard
2: dubliners - one of the best things ive ever read. and, as i've taken to pointing out when i make an utterly pointless point about books, i have a reasonably good degree in english literature from an ok university, so my opinion is correct.
thats about all the use i can get out of my degree tho, so i may as well use it
wrong christopher
it is extremely dull.
dubliners?
youre stupid.
and probably gay
for little kids
kids that you illegally smuggle into the country
and force to work in a sweat shop
making crack
and pirate dvds
which fund terrorism
and you probably like jeremy clarkson
who doesn't ?
sorry
but i almost fell asleep reading it and trying to find this profound meaning it was supposed to include. Middle class boring lives. That's all it was.
watch this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxfc-pLUvQE
Complete idiots.
Ulysses is the greatest thing put to paper. You are supposed to have fun with that book, playing with the language that plays with your thoughts as well as the infinite amount of touching moments. The scene in the cabman's shelter is one of my favourite literary moments. And if you don't fall in love with Bloom falling in love with (his) Gerty McDowell then you're not getting it. Just chill out, don't approach with any preconceptions, don't struggle with it and simply enjoy the dance of the language.
Dubliners is also incredible, A Painful Case is one of the most perfect, sad, beautiful, short stories ever penned.
Well, if his books are so great............
how come NONE of them have EVER featured on Richard & Judy's Book Club?
Huh? Hey? Well?
Your silence speaks volumes!
The Bible hasn't either
The Bible & Ulysses = most over-rated books ever
^ haddock speak truth
no way
i've read Ulysses for my uni course, it was the least fun i've ever had and yes i did understand it, and despite understanding it i still find it utter crap
A Painful Case is probably my favourite too
i actually dont like The Dead much, cos i have a terrible attention span
araby, a little cloud and grace, and pretty much all of them = <3
An Encounter
is really disturbing :(
nonsense
only about half is about the middle classes, and how can you criticise a piece of art by saying its just its subject matter? and who says there's anything profound to search for? its just a series of perfectly realised portraits of the people that make up a city
I don't think it has any profound meaning
according to our uni lecturer it did. I'm sorry but I don't see the beautiful prose mentioned on here. Dubliners is dull dull dull to me and I won't try re-reading it. It's not art either. I found the dead unbearable not some perfect portrait of an outdated Dublin. Yawn.
once you
dig into Irish mythology and history a little bit you realise how amazing 'The Dead' is, it contains so many subtle references to symbolic currents that reach back all the way back to Amergin (one of the first Irish poets), through Yeats, Maturin etc. Joyce manages to encode all of this within a snapshot of a Dublin stagnated on the verge between History and modernity, depicting a country half dragging itself backwards and half outreaching itself forwards. Great great stuff. Almost every sentence and every detail refers to an Irish myth or a historical event and it all seems wrapped up in that one moment of Dublin life. You should read Paul Muldoon's book 'To Ireland, I' for a better understanding of 'The Dead'.
Dubliners
is my favourite EVER book. Awesome man. Genius.
Mr. T's autobiography is my favourite book ever
His prose
is absolutely beautiful to read though. True enough that Ulysses is famous for being a book that you can only read with a study guide, but there's nary a page in it that doesn't contain at least one sort of greatness.
Also, Dubliners is still awesome even if you don't care for the more ostentatiously "modern" stuff. Probably the best short story collection I've ever read and very accessible.
I don't see how anyone could find James Joyce boring
he is one of the most contreversial writers of all time. I mean, the masturbating on the rocks scene, stephen having sex woth the prostitute.
Ulysees and Portrait of the artist were banned for being too rude.
That isn't dull
p.s. A Portrait of the artist as a young man is probably my favourite book ever.
has anyone read Finnegan's wake?
we did some passages
at Uni. Very difficult but worth the struggle.
I did a complete course at university just on JJ, it was awesome. I need to read Dubliners again actually.
hmm.
Ulysses - i have tried to read and couldn't get through it. i will though.
dubliners - didn't like it at all. i read it a long time ago so i can't remember why. i shall try it again.
PAYM - loved it. really did.
finnegans wake - not read it
dubliners is ace
ulysses isn't the sort of book to read for fun, it's good to read when you're thinking about analysing it and stuff.
A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
is sensational too. I don't think anyone mentioned this one.
^
nevermind =)
it should
have been mentioned!
When I say "serious" literature is dead fucking boring
James Joyce is who I'm thinking of.
go watch
the telly then
My telly broke
you're stuck with me.
I'm not that crazy about the idea either, but let's say we make the best of it. ;)
i have the biggest crush ever on james joyce.
i love him.