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by gstahl , Nov 17 '03
Pros: Funny, beautiful, dirty, challenging, awe inspiring and a flat out masterpiece.
Cons: Finding fault with Ulysses would be like saying Shakespeare's good, but couldn't he be easier?
James Joyce’s Ulysses is one of those books that lingers in the popular perception as being unduly difficult, an impenetrable text that only the Harold Bloom’s of the world can make it through. In the week that I spent reading this, most people ...
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by abazur , Jul 19 '01
Pros: Characters masturbate, urinate, and defecate, practice infidelity, patron brothels, and swear!
Cons: Ulysses is a difficult book and you'll probably have to read it more than once.
Introduction.
Hi. I'm not an expert, but I'm experienced, and I'm well equipped.
Why Ulysses?
The Modern Library named Ulysses the greatest novel of the 20th century (in June of 1998, mind you). And judging by...
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by Kallisti  - Top 1000, Jan 04 '01
Pros: A classic illustration of the human condition... or, perhaps, a certain male condition.
Cons: Difficult task for the modern reader
James Joyce's Ulysses is purported to be the biggest selling book in the English language other than the King James Version of the Bible.
Although popular in sales, I suspect that most owners of this one have yet to read it, or to...
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by arkhaine , Oct 07 '04
Pros: An amazing, beautiful story chronicling the life of two men - or every man.
Cons: Extremely dense; not for the faint of heart
On June 16th, 1904, a young James Joyce met his future wife for the first time. Ten years later, in 1914, he began what would become one of the greatest epics of modern language, Ulysses, setting the entirety of the events within that one special day ...
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by Len.Feder , Jun 28 '00
Pros: Imaginative, wonderful, funny book
Cons: Requires Cliff Notes to understand
I'm not going to discuss whether or not this is the greatest book of the century. It is an extremely quirky book, but a wonderful one. If you are anything like me, you will definitely need the Cliff Notes, and you may still want to skip over much of...
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by aristic , Nov 10 '99
Pros: Anyone interested in art, literature, psychology, philosophy should read this book
Cons: NONE
Continuing my analisys of James Joyce's masterpiece Ulysses, here is the review of its last chapter.
Penelope
"Jim is a great writer, but he doesn't know a damned thing about women."
Nora Barnacle Joyce comment about...
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by johnkerr , Feb 24 '00
Pros: unique, a masterpiece
Cons: 'difficult' for the uninitiated or unimaginative
I once entered a Daily Telegraph competition to summarise famous novels in 100 words, or less. Most had some sort of theme: romance, mystery, historical or whatever. For the final challenge, we were allowed to choose 'free form'. Well, the form doesn't...
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by Memento-Mori , Sep 01 '00
Pros: Heavy som'bitch; mine took a rifle slug at 'bout thirty-some-odd yards and it's still in one piece
Cons: Dang if I can make heads or tails o' this...sure as hell ain't about the Civil War
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
And as I climb into an empty bed
Oh well. Enough said. -- The Smiths
So, ZentropaJK asked me to participate in an "Illiterate's Write-off" -- presumably to...
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by aristic , Nov 10 '99
Pros: Anyone interested in understanding art and literature and a human psyche should read the book
Cons: NONE
James Joyce's masterpiece Ulysses is an incredibly complex and hard book, very worthy of any serious interest. It has influenced almost avery writer that came afterward, no matter in what culture. If you are interested in better understandment of...
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by H.Bear , Jun 19 '00
Pros: The rewards are endless.
Cons: Volume of time spent grappling with the book is very large
James Joyce's Ulysses is a novel that must be committed to. It is not a novel to buy at the closest B&N or impulse buy when you happen to see it topping the Modern Library list as greatest novel of the 20th Century.
It is just that...
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by jordan_tar , Apr 29 '00
Pros: Great, beautiful novel
Cons: Hard to find a good edition - the Gabler edition is the best I've seen
The characters of "Ulysses" are a few obscure Dubliners - yet their actions are given so much significance that the reader realizes that everything, even the most mundane experience, can be transcendental.
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by Ulysses04 , May 05 '00
Pros: Greatest novel of all time (is that enough?)
Cons: Requires a bit of research to "get" all of the puns and references (but that's not really a "con")_
Ulysses, voted best novel of the century, and rightly so, depicts the amalgamation of the psyche as three dubliners wander within the narrative in an attempt to conjoin disparate aspects of all of our minds. Stephen, hero of Joyce's previous book...
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by osirx277 , Oct 28 '01
Pros: Ulysses is the epic day in the life of Leopold Bloom. Best book ever.
Cons: If you don't like complex and literary, don't read.
The best book ever written, Ulysses expresses the epic grandeur of everyday life. In the novel we are given a glance into a day in the life of Stephen Dedalus (of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) and Leopold Bloom. They are two men who are...
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