Nathan Bransford - The Forums

Okay, it's got to be said. I read five pages of Ulysses and I'm still recuperating. Do people really like it? I mean seriously. Not just as an intellectual exercise - do you really like reading this??

Same with D.H. Lawrence. I don't get it. I just don't get it.

Try Dubliners, which is wonderful and very accessible. Nobody can get through Ulysses. You're not alone. But Dubliners is beautifully written. It's basically a series of short stories--each with an epiphany. The stories aren't heavy or intellectual.

Mira wrote:Okay, it's got to be said. I read five pages of Ulysses and I'm still recuperating. Do people really like it? I mean seriously. Not just as an intellectual exercise - do you really like reading this??

Yes.

One of my favorite books. I did my senior thesis on the "Ithaca" chapter.

Mira wrote: Same with D.H. Lawrence. I don't get it. I just don't get it

Lawrence is my favorite writer.

No one has ever put together a run as great as SONS AND LOVERS, THE RAINBOW, and WOMEN IN LOVE.

SONS AND LOVERS might be the best young adult novel ever written.

I can't get into James Joyce, either. But then again, I'm the only person I know who liked Heart of Darkness. We probably all have some work of classical literature we can't stand and some ponderous book that we secretly like.