ulysses

Advantages: it is a book of the ages
Disadvantages: it costs money to buy!

...the greatest writer of the twentieth century, in my worthless opinion. I can only refer you to the book. If you enjoy this book, you will love Joyce's 'Finnegans Wake'. If Ulysses is the mind by day, then FW is the mind as it sleeps, so he said. Finnegans Wake is the difficult book of the two....

alcidebava 16.08.2000 18:27 · Read review
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Review of Ulysses - James Joyce

James Joyce - Ulysses - Not The Audio Book!

Advantages: Among the greatest novels ever written.
Disadvantages: You'd be best to take a few maps,

...Ulysses is both a start and an end. It is the start of something spectacular, exciting, innovative and revolutionary in the medium of the novel, and yet it is also the end of the novel, for post-Ulysses, there is very little left to be said by way of a series of words arranged in chapters and bound under a common name. Of all the modern classics, it is perhaps the most daunting. More so even...

DavidJay 22.10.2008 10:01 · Read review
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Review of Ulysses - James Joyce

I'm So Retro

Advantages: nteresting futuristic revision of classical Greek myths for 80s kids.
Disadvantages: Suffers in translation and requires huge suspension of disbelief.

...Another cartoon series frequently used (fairly accurately) by geeks in their late twenties to justify why old cartoons were better than the rubbish kids have to put up with nowadays, 'Ulysses 31' was a science fiction retelling of famous Greek myths that will never see a revamped, updated version given to the likes of He-Man, Transformers and the Turtles simply because it's just about the most...

Frankingsteins 24.04.2008 12:27 · Read review
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Review of Ulysses 31 - Complete (Animated) (Box Set) (DVD)