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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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Have to admit I've never read any Joyce.

Anyone here read Finnegans Wake? Other works by Joyce?


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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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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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God bless. Wink
 
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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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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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