Honesty for Bloomsday - hands up DUers who've read Ulysses cover-to-cover!

[non sociopath skin]

I'll stand a pint of the Liffey Water to anyone who has next time they visit North East England!

The skin

[The empressof all]

1. here

When I was young and had the time to ponder.

[On the Road]

2. Not Me -- I Did Get Through About 50 Pages, Though

would like to finish the rest some time.

3. In Richard Ellman's class on Modern Fiction

cover to cover.
Then about a month later I read Gravity's Rainbow.
hmmmm
wonder what that did to me?


& not only is it Bloomsday, it's the 100th anniversary

[PragMantisT]

4. Sorry, just can't do it.

But I have swum at Sandy Hook (?), Dun Laoghaire ( where they swim at the beginning).

[Hoosier Democrat]

5. I have NEVER liked James Joyce...

I think I'd rather have Ann Coulter lick honey off my nipples than read another thing by Joyce!

[Hand]

18. Pfui!

Philistine pervert!

:spank:

[Khephra]

6. At one time or another

Just never all at once.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

7. Me--but it was

maybe twenty years ago.

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. I've read it.

Also Finnegan's Wake.

[tigereye]

9. i have tried numerous times

a copy is sitting by my bed as I write. I took it out of the library when I was underage, and couldn't finish it then. And now I am not sure i have the stamina. It is something I am not proud of as an English Lit BA.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

10. Okay - now I'll have to take the challenge

I'm off to visit my sister in the Bay Area on Sunday. We always shop 'til we drop at bookstores, Best Buy, etc. I've eyed "Ulysses" for years and have never purchased it; now might be the time because I'm taking the bus to and from work every day and require something to read.

[non sociopath skin]

12. I am seriously impressed!

Read it about twenty summers ago with the aid of Stuart Gilbert's excellent guide.

Was thinking about rereading it this summer by way of centenary celebration, but the thought of having Anne Coulter lick honey off my nipples has raised the prospect of an alternative project.

The Skin

[Maeve]

11. Twice

Admitting to using Cliff Notes the first time, tho, to get many of the references.
:beer:

[HEyHEY]

13. Haven't read since age 12 but loved it!@

[Feanorcurufinwe]

14. Nope

not cover to cover, no.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

15. At least twice

[Loonman]

16. Halfway through

I had to stop before I slipped into a coma.

[Hand]

17. Oooooh!! Me! Me!

Cover to cover once, and revisited many many times! "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan..." and AWAY WE GO!

:toast: :loveya: