Happy Bloomsday, Everyone

Happy Bloomsday, Everyone
To all lovers of literature: Today, the 16th of June, is "Bloomsday," the day when most of the events in James Joyce's 1922 novel ULYSSES take place. Most of the novel takes place exactly 105 years ago, in 1904. So, a Happy Bloomsday to everyone who loves literature! :D

And a happy Bloomsday to you too, JP. I was just thinking that it was time I had a re-read. Spartacus

Happy Bloomsday JP. Do they do Bloomsday cards yet?

I'm sure they do, somewhere!

JP, you have aroused my (easily aroused!) feelings of inadequacy. But, confession is good for the soul, they say! (whispers) I have never read Ulysses. :oops: BUT ... today I downloaded the work onto my e-reader and (once I have finished my mindless Sci-Fi trilogy) I shall read it forthwith. Anyone else want to own up?

Anyone else want to own up? Yep.

I've never read it either. Can't say I'm embarrassed by the fact though. To each his own.

I started it today, and so far I am not enjoying it at all. :cry:

Anyone else want to own up? It's not a book I've particularly been inclined to read, I have to say.

Anyone else want to own up? It's not a book I've particularly been inclined to read, I have to say. Now I AM surprised! Without a shred of irony, and meaning nothing but genuine respect, I thought TJ was one of those here I expected to have covered all the "must read" classics. So far, I have to admit, I am far from gripped. What is the attraction, JP? :wink:

Anyone else want to own up? It's not a book I've particularly been inclined to read, I have to say. Now I AM surprised! Without a shred of irony, and meaning nothing but genuine respect, I thought TJ was one of those here I expected to have covered all the "must read" classics. You forget Besty, I'm too arrogant to let the '60s pseudo-establishment tell me what is "must read" and not.

Anyone else want to own up? It's not a book I've particularly been inclined to read, I have to say. Now I AM surprised! Without a shred of irony, and meaning nothing but genuine respect, I thought TJ was one of those here I expected to have covered all the "must read" classics. You forget Besty, I'm too arrogant to let the '60s pseudo-establishment tell me what is "must read" and not. Not quite sure how that applies, tjw. In my case, the writer who encouraged me to read Joyce was Anthony Burgess, by no means an "establishment" anything. I think that both he and Joyce would have been most insulted by the idea! :wink: My recollection is that, like Eliot, Hesse and Larkin, the three other great favourites of my university days. Joyce was regarded with great suspicion -if not derision - by the campus Marxists whose philosophy (though some would find it hard to believe) I never shared... :wink: Spartacus

I read it in a lit course in college. It is all about queers. Don't waste your time on it.

BUT ... today I downloaded the work onto my e-reader and (once I have finished my mindless Sci-Fi trilogy) I shall read it forthwith. I am reading a Sci Fi trilogy myself. It is the "Island in the Sea of Time" series by SM Stirling. The island and population of Nantucket is swept back into time in the year 1250 BC. It is all about them surviving and exploring the world of 3,000 years ago.

I soon realised the book is about gentlemen who prefer gentlemen, Gator ... but do they ever do anything interesting? Does anything interesting ever happen to them? I shall waste a bit more time, probably finding out that the answer is "no!".:wink: I am re-reading the Harry Turtledove "World War" series. I read it a few years ago, but it was included in a bundle of e-books I downloaded from ebay, and as I remembered it fondly I am reading it again. Love those lizards! Of course, it is not the sort of stuff pseuds would give a prize to! :lol:

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