Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics: Ulysses: Introduction by Craig Raine (Hardcover)

from AlanSkinner

There are many books I have added to my list and for which, although I may have given them a rating, I have not provided a review. I have resigned myself to the fact that most of them will never ha...

from Emlyn_Chand

Preview...If ever there's a book that refuses to fit cleanly inside the literary mode, it's James Joyce's "Ulysses." Upon my first reading attempt several years back, I quickly gave up, assigning t...

from Linus_Linus

Personally Ulysses means more than a lot. To me, there are books and there is this bible. Was quite young the first time I tried it, couldnt drag beyond the first chapter. Then after two summers, l...

from pointsman

It's getting harder and harder to defend this book. Every Bloomsday, I open a newspaper here in Ireland and it's an all round consensus from the hacks that Ulysses is overblown, pseudo-intellectual...

from slickdpdx

If you want to read and enjoy the book, don't treat it as a scholarly expedition, at least not the first time through. Roughly 50% of the prose is flat out spectacular. There is a lot of bold exper...