Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Back to Woman's World for a minute: the "twist" I thought I guessed at the beginning isn't really the twist.
Or, rather, what I guessed is *part* of the twist, but there's more to it. It's like a twisty twist.
And I'm not finished with it yet, so it may end up being a half-gainer with a twisty twist.
Ah, it's "gibberish that's supposed to be exquisite flights of literary brilliance day."
Find the non-fan of Joyce.
Ah, it's "gibberish that's supposed to be exquisite flights of literary brilliance day."
Wow, that's freakin' ignorant, Connie.
If you've read Ulysses you'd know better. Go read his short story "The Dead" and tell me that Joyce didn't know how to write.
It's not gibberish, but it is really, really difficult. I think it's like Shakespearean English in a way--it can be very off-putting at first but once you learn the language of the writer, it's a total pleasure to read. It's like Sci-Fi world-building, but instead of creating a different world using regular language, the writer is describing this world, using a whole world of words, which has its own sense and layers.
I was in Dublin on Bloomsday a few years ago. It was kind of neat -- I was taking a cab to the airport, and the cab driver was listening to a broadcast about Joyce.
I've never read more than a few excerpts of Ulysses. I did read all the way though Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in high school, and didn't particularly enjoy it.
Excellent and shiny description, Scrappy.
Wow, that's freakin' ignorant, Connie.
That's pretty harsh, Hec. People are allowed to have differing opinions on books. It doesn't make them ignorant.
If you've read Ulysses you'd know better.
I missed the part in her post where she said that she didn't.
Are you assuming that because she has a differing opinion on Ulysses that she didn't read it? That seems to imply that everyone who read Ulysses must love it, or at least have a value-neutral opinion on it. *That* is ignorant.
I'm with Steph.
I did read all the way though Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in high school, and didn't particularly enjoy it.
That's the only Joyce I've read, I think (or...is there a story of his that's about going to some sort of crowded open-air marketplace?). I loved it, though. I liked watching the language of the book change and evolve as the character did.
Wow, that's freakin' ignorant, Connie.
Wow, that's freakin' condescending, Hec. I don't like Joyce. I think it's gibberish. But thanks for your opinion of my intelligence.
That's pretty harsh, Hec. People are allowed to have differing opinions on books. It doesn't make them ignorant.
Anti-intellectualism is ignorant. It surely is. And that was the jist of her comment, not an opinion on the book.