James Joyce was a shit paddy cunt.
Ulysses is the ultimate 'Emperor's New Clothes' book. The cunt said he he had "put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant". Bollocks - fuck off you pompous turd.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 10:47, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist are fucking brilliant
Ulysses on the other hand is unreadable.
(McChinaman banned, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 10:52, Reply)

The people who claim to like it
are the same turds who stand in the Tate Modern looking at pile of old shit, stroking their chins and claiming to 'get what the artist was trying to do'.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 11:03, Reply)

^so much this
I told a friend Ulysses was a pile of old shit, and she tried to suggest that I just hadn't understood it properly.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 11:05, Reply)

It is unreadable gibberish and anyone who claims to think otherwise is
a) lying and
b) pretentious
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 11:10, Reply)

ask them if they've ever read "the emperor's new clothes"...

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 11:16, Reply)

I used to like his early stuff but now it's too commercial

(McChinaman banned, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 11:27, Reply)

I liked Ulysses
and hate the Tate Modern, and do not "get what the artist was trying to do"
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Mon 19 Sep 2011, 11:26, Reply)

Did you read it in English?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 11:28, Reply)

I've tried to read it four or five times
But I just can't get past about Proteus. The Norton Anthology of Literature I have has 2 excerpts from Ulysses - each requires half a page of footnotes, for EVERY PAGE, to make sense of it. This just makes the demands on the reader completely unreasonable. (Finnegans Wake, on the other hand, is 1/3 text, 2/3 footnotes).
(McChinaman banned, Mon 19 Sep 2011, 11:31, Reply)