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To: Edwarda who wrote (46087)	7/19/1999 10:07:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I really liked The Name of the Rose, but it's nowhere as difficult to read as Ulysses. The main disappointment in Ulysses is that there is nothing else as fine as Molly Bloom's soliloquy, so if you're looking for it (or for other sexy parts) give it up, it ain't there. That's the Irish for you.;^)

To: Edwarda who wrote (46087)	7/19/1999 11:57:00 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

Ditto... Eco's The Name of the Rose. I plowed my way through it. Duty, not pleasure. I would have been better off reading old Nancy Drews.

To: Edwarda who wrote (46087)	7/19/1999 1:24:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Let's hear it for Mann's "Doctor Faustus"! Hip, hip, hooray! I must have been about fifteen or sixteen when I first read that novel, Edwarda. I did not understand the long sections about atonal music at all, but I was still fascinated! (Mann is such a Russian writer! <g>) I think there is a lot to be said for reaching beyond your grasp. Challenges are good, in literature as in everything else. And that is why I find Ulysses such fun. It is not a book that one sits down and reads cover to cover. It is for dipping into, for proceeding at a snail's pace, savoring, tracing connections, etc., etc. I must confess, however, that Finnegan's Wake was too much for me, though. My husband and I used to have arguments (play arguments -- it was our form of flirtation) about Finnegan's Wake -- and about Ezra Pound. He was a total Joyce (and Pound) freak. Joan