![]() ![]() I found Lee’s reading of Ulysses to be easier to follow than I expected. The copy I listened to is read by John Lee, a notable audiobook narrator who has also read such books as A Feast for Crows, book four of the Game of Thrones series, and Ken Follett’s novel The Pillars of the Earth. I wasn’t sure if I’d ever read it, but I decided to listen to the audiobook on a whim when I found it on our shelf. Joyce’s choice of writing style, which I found dense, evocative, and pretentious by turns, plus the fact that much of the story and many of the characters parallel the plot and characters of Homer’s Odyssey, has led some writers to call Ulysses one of the greatest novels ever written, while others vehemently dislike it. The prose fluidly shifts from what characters say, to what they are thinking, to what is happening in the environment with little indication of which statement is which. And I have to say, I’ve never experienced anything quite like it.įor those of you who haven’t realized what you’ve gotten yourself into yet, Ulysses, written by James Joyce, is a novel written in a ‘stream-of-consciousness’ style in which the reader follows a character named Leopold Bloom as he goes about his day in Dublin, Ireland on June 16, 1904. ![]() But I didn’t read Ulysses, I listened to the audiobook. If you have decided to read this post, I’m going to you assume you either really like Ulysses and want to read me gush about how wonderful and unique and smart it is, or you don’t like Ulysses and want to read me verbally tear it to pieces for being overrated, obtuse and overwrought with self-important ramblings. ![]()
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