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		twoodfin on Dec 13, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Best Books I Read in 2013 Anyone interested in tackling Ulysses in 2014 would benefit greatly from Frank Delaney's ongoing Re:Joyce podcast, in which he "unpacks" the book a paragraph or so at a time. He's been at it for three and a half years and is almost through "Calypso", the fourth chapter. That's an advantage for a first-time reader, as it gets you through the (deliberately ponderous and self-indulgent) "Proteus" stretch in Book I. http://blog.frankdelaney.com/re-joyce/ Ulysses is a singular book: Well-worth it if you love language, or for that matter almost anything about life as it is lived.

Joeri on Dec 13, 2013 [–]

A book so complicated that it requires a podcast to make sense of it is not the best formulation of whatever message it is trying to bring.

But then I admittedly have not gotten past page 200 of ulysses in the three times I've tried, so that may be coloring my perception.

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