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15 November 2023, 09:20 PM
wtg
The book clubs
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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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16 November 2023, 06:59 AM
Steve Miller
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16 November 2023, 05:26 PM
wtg
Have to admit I've never read any Joyce.

Anyone here read Finnegans Wake? Other works by Joyce?


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16 November 2023, 05:29 PM
RealPlayer
quote:
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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16 November 2023, 09:47 PM
Steve Miller
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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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17 November 2023, 10:48 AM
Daniel
God bless. Wink
17 November 2023, 11:31 AM
AdagioM
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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17 November 2023, 01:12 PM
Daniel
Oh, that was a joke about how some Southern women say, "God bless" as a way of pretending to say something nice.