I'm not sure you want to admit to reading Wheel of Time multiple times. It's like spending an entire weekend watching Benson re-runs. The sense of pissing away one's life is palpable.
There are plenty of books that are longer. War and Peace, Les Miserables, A La Recherche du Temps Perdu, La Divina Commedia, Bleak House, hell, even Foucault's Pendulum is longer if memory serves.
Ulysses is a book that people tend to read to be able to say they've read it because (1) it purports to be a work of literature (unlike WoT), (2) there is apparently a very small subset of people who are obsessed with it and think it is one of the greatest works of literary fiction on the planet, and (3) it is dense reading.
There are plenty of books that are longer. War and Peace, Les Miserables, A La Recherche du Temps Perdu, La Divina Commedia, Bleak House, hell, even Foucault's Pendulum is longer if memory serves.
Ulysses is a book that people tend to read to be able to say they've read it because (1) it purports to be a work of literature (unlike WoT), (2) there is apparently a very small subset of people who are obsessed with it and think it is one of the greatest works of literary fiction on the planet, and (3) it is dense reading.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Carl Jung's thoughts on Ulysses by James Joyce
- 13/09/2011 04:28:21 PM
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As far as I can tell, the main reason to read it is so you can say
- 13/09/2011 05:38:17 PM
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The length has nothing to do with it
- 13/09/2011 05:57:27 PM
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Re: The length has nothing to do with it
- 13/09/2011 08:22:36 PM
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I tried the beginning of it once
- 14/09/2011 02:31:16 AM
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If you don't like it at about 75-100 pages in, you just won't like it. *NM*
- 15/09/2011 04:30:27 AM
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was enough to stop me reading more Joyce.
- 15/09/2011 07:59:22 AM
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It was precisely because I liked A Portrait of the Artist that I tried Ulysses.
- 15/09/2011 03:46:31 PM
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Actually this is one of the few things I've disagreed with Jung on.
- 21/09/2011 12:23:34 AM
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