ecn-pc:alexande@pur-ee.UUCP (06/24/83)
I read "Dubliners" as a First year college student, and it went right past me. I was not yet ready to view reading literature as anything other than leisure. By the time I reached the summer before my senior year, I was ready to take on "Ulysses". I found it to be the most pleasurable piece of literature that I have read to date. To enjoy it to its fullest requires a thorough knowledge of everything ever written in English, Latin, French, and German, and a strong knowledge of Irish history, linguistics, Homer, and the Bible, but it is fascinating reading on any level, if you are willing to go to the trouble to enjoy it. I read the Cliff's notes after I had read it through the first time, and it helped on the re-read, but I was really captured by the book on the first reading, even without help from notes. I have not yet taken the plunge to read "Finnegan's Wake", but I intend to do so someday. The main problem I have is that I don't have large blocks of time to devote to reading it. I don't think it would be as much fun at 2 pages a day on the bus on the way to work, but maybe something will open up and allow me the time. How long did it take any reader out there? Alan Alexander-Manifold Purdue Library Systems Dept. pur-ee!ecn-pa.alexande
filed01@abnjh.UUCP (06/28/83)
Anyone that can do better than two pages a day of Finnegan's Wake is exceptional.