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F*cking beautiful review!
Oh, and right on time - now I see the date. Perfect timing :) Respect! Proud to have such a GR friend :)
Thank you, Razvan! And you don't have to censor yourself around me. I can handle the f-word. :)
@Nicu: Thanks! I wish more people would give Ulysses a chance. It's not the monster everyone thinks it is.
I want to read this book but I have a romanian edition, one of the worst that I have ever tried to read. It has small letters and the space among rows is very tight. This is what makes me to stop reading.
If you know English well, you could try reading it in original. In my opinion it's the best way, especially since it's a difficult book to translate and I think much is lost in translation (puns, imitations of sounds, etc). For example, there is a chapter that is pure style, where Joyce shows the evolution of the English language. I bet it was a nightmare to translate.
I will. Did you read "Finnegans wake"? I heard it is almost ipossible to be translated.
Nope. Finnegans Wake intimidates me. Maybe one day I'll be brave enough. Not yet.
Ugh! Is she limping? Lucky I didn't see it earlier.
This line got me.
That review deserves to be printed and put up on my wall! I could have saved myself a lot of pain and just read something like this :-)
Ah, such happy memories! (of finishing it)
Ten years later and this is still fab.
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F*cking beautiful review!
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Oh, and right on time - now I see the date. Perfect timing :) Respect! Proud to have such a GR friend :)
Thank you, Razvan! And you don't have to censor yourself around me. I can handle the f-word. :)
@Nicu: Thanks! I wish more people would give Ulysses a chance. It's not the monster everyone thinks it is.
I want to read this book but I have a romanian edition, one of the worst that I have ever tried to read. It has small letters and the space among rows is very tight. This is what makes me to stop reading.
If you know English well, you could try reading it in original. In my opinion it's the best way, especially since it's a difficult book to translate and I think much is lost in translation (puns, imitations of sounds, etc). For example, there is a chapter that is pure style, where Joyce shows the evolution of the English language. I bet it was a nightmare to translate.
I will. Did you read "Finnegans wake"? I heard it is almost ipossible to be translated.
Nope. Finnegans Wake intimidates me. Maybe one day I'll be brave enough. Not yet.
Ugh! Is she limping? Lucky I didn't see it earlier. This line got me.
That review deserves to be printed and put up on my wall! I could have saved myself a lot of pain and just read something like this :-)Ah, such happy memories! (of finishing it)
Ten years later and this is still fab.