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Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce
    #5274121 - 02/07/06 04:46 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

So, has anyone here conquered it?


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Re: Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce [Re: it stars saddam]
    #5274225 - 02/07/06 05:22 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

I don't think you can.  I have it and have read a lot of it.  One of the most brilliant works ever written.  I absolutely love it.  It tickles my mind in a way no other piece of literature has.  And what's crazy, I used to be able to talk like the way the book is written while dreaming.  The state before waking up and not dreaming anymore.  The first time I read it already had a familier tone to it.  Its amazing. :thumbup:


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Re: Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce [Re: Penguarky Tunguin]
    #5274573 - 02/07/06 06:37 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

James Joyce was without doubt a strange writer.

His screen of conciousness was peculiar to say the least.

His writing style incredibly difficult to master.

His books sucked.

His books were wonderful!


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Re: Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce [Re: Penguarky Tunguin]
    #5275040 - 02/07/06 08:23 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

"Having done the longest day in literature with his monumental Ulysses (1922), James Joyce set himself even greater challenges for his next book: the night. "A nocturnal state... that is what I want to convey; what goes on in a dream, during a dream." The work, which would exhaust two decades of his life and the odd resources of some sixty languages, culminated in the 1939 publication of Joyce's final and most revolutionary masterpiece, Finnegan's Wake."


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Re: Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce [Re: it stars saddam]
    #5275060 - 02/07/06 08:27 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

I'm convinced this book was written purely to confuse the hell out of English majors.


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Re: Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce [Re: it stars saddam]
    #5276287 - 02/08/06 04:16 AM (17 years, 11 months ago)

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His books sucked.

His books were wonderful!





He is at the same time one of the most spoken about but least understood writers on the planet.

I personally hated Finnegan's Wake. I respect it, and Joyce, but found it a pretentious work I guess. Maybe i'm missing something-I haven't picked it up in a long time.


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Re: Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce [Re: DirtMcgirt]
    #5278316 - 02/08/06 04:30 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

Tom Robbins speaks well of Finnegan's wake.

Tom Robbins wrote the foreword for

The Archaic Revival: Collected Essays and Conversations more books like this
by McKenna, Terence, and Satty (Illustrator), and Robbins, Tom (Introduction by)

In, "Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates", he writes of secret fraternal orders devoted to the imbibing of drugs and reading excerpts of "Finnegan's Wake" and discourse on the philosophical and or cosmic significance of that fabled masterpiece. Its quite funny actually.

Switters, the main character, he works for the CIA, has a taste for herbs and molds, and is comprised primarily of contradictions speaks of a time when he remembers coming to after one of those meetings naked and bleeding. I am thinking, what the hell happened at that meeting. He was in Thailand. It was funny the way Tom Robbins conveyed it.


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Re: Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce [Re: nakors_junk_bag]
    #5278324 - 02/08/06 04:33 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

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In, "Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates", he writes of secret fraternal orders devoted to the imbibing of drugs and reading excerpts of "Finnegan's Wake" and discourse on the philosophical and or cosmic significance of that fabled masterpiece. Its quite funny actually.




Strangely enough, I ordered this very book from the library yesterday.


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Re: Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce [Re: it stars saddam]
    #5278335 - 02/08/06 04:35 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

Its one of my favorite books, of most all of time.

Another Roadside Attraction is excellent too.

I hope you enjoy it.


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Re: Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce [Re: nakors_junk_bag]
    #5278356 - 02/08/06 04:41 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

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nakors_junk_bag said:
James Joyce was without doubt a strange writer.

His screen of conciousness was peculiar to say the least.

His writing style incredibly difficult to master.

His books sucked.

His books were wonderful!




I agree. It's rather a task to read a lot of his stuff, but you're glad you did when you finish and think a bit about what he has to say!  :laugh:


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