2007-03-12 02:31:25 · 9 answers · asked by apples 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Yes, I've read it several times. I guess you're having some difficulty finishing it, since you've asked. I know it's difficult and complicated, but it's also a great story. I get a little choked up thinking about it as I write even now....
Stephan's sister sees a French grammar book in a shop window and thinks about buying it to improve herself, then comes home and sees a tremendous pot boiling and asks what's for dinner--"shirts" is her answer--it wasn't dinner but laundry in the pot.
I wouldn't gain anything from trying to convince you to read this "novel," but I certainly wouldn't try to talk you out of it! You'll probably never regret having finished it, though you may regret putting it down.
If you read it carefully, you can learn more from this single book than you could from an entire liberal arts degree. That's really the truth. At the same time, it's really a great, very moving love story. I hope you'll finish it--even more, I hope you'll enjoy it. If you can't read it now, maybe you can get around to it: please resolve to do so like Molly does in the last line of the book--"yes I will yes."
2007-03-12 14:29:43 · answer #1 · answered by herr_flipowitz 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree that it is indeed one of the best, but certainly not THE best... and here is why...
I'm not typing it all over again... *see link below...
and yes... I have read it, hundreds of times actually and I own the original 1960's version of movie too! Which was a trip by the way.
I think that it should be read a few times during ones reading life... It does tend to change with age and perspective. Most people who are not intelligent enough to appreciate anything difficult or not immediately obvious in every way, (like Harry Potter) tend to discredit it and call it rubbish for everyone... when it is actually anything but.
It is like Aristotle. You simply have got to read it a few times, line by line to absorb it correctly.
2007-03-12 05:51:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-01 21:16:47 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately yes. :(
If you have to read it for a class I would take it easy and not try to read too large a hunk at a time. It's easier to digest that way. And although I am usually adamantly against their use I'd go Cliffnotes as a supplement.
If you chose of your own free will to read it change your mind and DON'T.
2007-03-12 03:13:26 · answer #4 · answered by gryffindorgrad91 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, back in 1970. i forced myself to read it, 20 pages a day, every day, for weeks on end.
it is certainly NOT the best novel of the 20thC; interesting , but not the best by any means.
p.s.: it's spelled "Ulysses" ; and it was written in the *20th* century
2007-03-12 02:38:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I never read it because I feel that any author as arrogant as James Joyce cannot write a great book.
2007-03-12 02:42:15 · answer #6 · answered by smartrudman 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
A lot fewer than claim to have done so.
If you are struggling with it, my advice is to read it out loud, in relatively short sections. Treat it like a piece of poetry. meant to be heard and not read silently.
2007-03-12 02:37:16 · answer #7 · answered by P. M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I haven't, but if you're really struggling with any book and you have to read it, I would recommend you buy it on CD or on itunes and listen to it.
2007-03-12 02:43:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes yes yes Yes. And I liked it.
2007-03-12 04:24:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋