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...how are you even on this site? beetnemesis Send a noteboard - 22/09/2011 04:38:43 PM
There are plenty of fantasy and sci-fi books that qualify as "real literature."

Sure, there are plenty that don't, but that's true of the thousands of asinine memoirs and stories about single parents living in Maine that are considered "real literature."
I amuse myself.
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Carl Jung's thoughts on Ulysses by James Joyce Tom - 13/09/2011 04:28:21 PM 3233 Views
As far as I can tell, the main reason to read it is so you can say beetnemesis - 13/09/2011 05:38:17 PM 945 Views
The length has nothing to do with it Tom - 13/09/2011 05:57:27 PM 1016 Views
Re: The length has nothing to do with it beetnemesis - 13/09/2011 08:22:36 PM 850 Views
I don't think you can compare fantasy series and real literature Tom - 13/09/2011 09:13:26 PM 884 Views
...how are you even on this site? beetnemesis - 22/09/2011 04:38:43 PM 897 Views
I re-read it for the third time this spring Larry - 14/09/2011 12:01:02 AM 1150 Views
Given that you read fast, that's not as damning as it could be Tom - 14/09/2011 02:29:55 AM 880 Views
I tried the beginning of it once A Deathwatch Guard - 14/09/2011 02:31:16 AM 873 Views
If you don't like it at about 75-100 pages in, you just won't like it. *NM* Tom - 15/09/2011 04:30:27 AM 363 Views
Took a class on it. Aeryn - 14/09/2011 11:27:24 PM 920 Views
I could see a short class on it being interesting. Tom - 15/09/2011 04:29:55 AM 838 Views
Never read it, never plan to. Darth_Katie - 14/09/2011 11:45:51 PM 906 Views
Pretentious, unappealing and difficult to read. Tom - 15/09/2011 04:25:05 AM 864 Views
Awesome! Jung seems to agree with me. Vodalus - 15/09/2011 03:30:27 AM 955 Views
I particularly enjoyed that analogy Tom - 15/09/2011 04:23:16 AM 874 Views
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was enough to stop me reading more Joyce. Rebekah - 15/09/2011 07:59:22 AM 905 Views
It was precisely because I liked A Portrait of the Artist that I tried Ulysses. Tom - 15/09/2011 03:46:31 PM 846 Views
Actually this is one of the few things I've disagreed with Jung on. Panorphaeon - 21/09/2011 12:23:34 AM 810 Views
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