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posted 15 November 2023 09:20 PM
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‘It never ends’: the book club that spent 28 years reading Finnegans Wake

The group in Venice, California, started the difficult James Joyce book in 1995. They reached its final page in October


https://www.theguardian.com/bo...ngeans-wake-28-years


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posted 16 November 2023 06:59 AMHide Post
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posted 16 November 2023 05:26 PMHide Post
Have to admit I've never read any Joyce.

Anyone here read Finnegans Wake? Other works by Joyce?


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posted 16 November 2023 05:29 PMHide Post
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Originally posted by wtg:
Have to admit I've never read any Joyce.

Anyone here read Finnegans Wake? Other works by Joyce?


Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Many years ago.


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posted 16 November 2023 09:47 PMHide Post
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Originally posted by wtg:
Have to admit I've never read any Joyce.

Anyone here read Finnegans Wake? Other works by Joyce?


I would, but I just don’t have the time.


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posted 17 November 2023 10:48 AMHide Post
God bless. Wink
 
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posted 17 November 2023 11:31 AMHide Post
Ulysses, for an Honors College class. Didn’t like it. Don’t remember much about it any more. Is that a blessing?


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posted 17 November 2023 01:12 PMHide Post
Oh, that was a joke about how some Southern women say, "God bless" as a way of pretending to say something nice.
 
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