Bloomsday!

mike65

Who gives a **** lioke?

Mike.

aidan_walsh

Why young Davey Norris, of course...

Stephen

Bullshít day.

google seems to give a ****, funnily enough

Marq

Ah now, Bloomsday's great ye uncultured swines

jank

STFU ya yobs!

ixoy

Let's all celebrate James Joyces' greatest work:

RobertFoster

# UlysseeEEeeEEEeeeEEEeees #

great theme tune.

earwicker

Originally posted by mike65
Who gives a **** lioke?

Mike.

K.M.R.I.A

joseph brand

OOps,

RobertFoster

Originally posted by earwicker
K.M.R.I.A

http://www.netlingo.com/lookup.cfm?term=KMRIA

mike65

I was wondering what that meant.

Mike.

Has anyone here ever read Ulysses or know anyone that has?

hedgetrimmer

Read it, studied it, did papers in college on it.

Can't stand it.

for many many reasons, most of which would fill even more papers, if argued properly.

But the Dubliners is good, and Finnegan's Wake is ok

mike65

Sky News Ireland did a poll about 25% said they had read it - 23% read the back cover and halfway down the first page I'd say.

Mike.

simu

I read the whole book and I'll probably read it more than once as you find new things in it all the time. I'm a bit sick of all the cheesy hype though.

Flashling

Denny should be sued! I bet he is turning in his grave. Don't remember this from last year, all the advertising I mean...Is it just me?

RobertFoster

Originally posted by Flashling
Denny should be sued! I bet he is turning in his grave. Don't remember this from last year, all the advertising I mean...Is it just me?

nope, didn't notice it either - probably going all out because it's Bloomsday 100....the state Samantha Mumba et al on the ad on RTÉ: "Yes, Yes, Yes!"

simu

Um, it's the centenary.

lyonsy

Is it true that he has a **** at the beach, and takes his son to a brothel??

simu

Originally posted by lyonsy
Is it true that he has a **** at the beach, and takes his son to a brothel??

**** bit - true.

His son is dead but he ends up in the brothel with Stephen Dedalus, a young man that Bloom has some sort of fatherly affection for.

lyonsy

hmm.. might read it. didn't know it was so filthy..was there not fierce contravercy about wrighting that kinda shi t back then

aodh_rua

Originally posted by simu
**** bit - true.

He cracks one off after seeing two girls bathing down in Sandymount.

I can't believe that Sky News let that 25% statistic stand. The only people I know who've read it through were doing it in College. I got about a third of the way through, but I ended up drowning in it.

MrNuked

lol!

It is a **** book!

I tried reading it years ago. It was so boring. Surely one of the aims of any writer should be to make his work enjoyable to read, and to express himself clearly, whether being subtle or not.
"A book that only 12 people fully understand." My arse.

Marq

I'm reading it at the moment (have read portrait of the artist and Dubliners too) and I think it's fantastic. You can't approach it like a regular book though. It's only linear in a very, very loose sense.

sceptre

Originally posted by Flashling
Denny should be sued! I bet he is turning in his grave. Don't remember this from last year, all the advertising I mean...Is it just me?

Ah, it was his own fault for mentioning Denny in the book.

I prefer the bit in Steinbeck's Wayward Bus myself where yer man says that Coke and Pepsi are basically the same stuff. I still have hopes that it kept the odd few Coca Cola lawyers awake at night.

pork99

http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1237456,00.html

simu

Originally posted by pork99
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1237456,00.html

In the last decade or so, that process has rebranded and remarketed, among other things, the Great Famine of the 1840s through the construction of a 200 acre faux-realistic famine theme park in west Limerick,

(from that Guardian article)

Is this true? A famine theme park?

gaelic cowboy

Originally posted by Marq
I'm reading it at the moment (have read portrait of the artist and Dubliners too) and I think it's fantastic. You can't approach it like a regular book though. It's only linear in a very, very loose sense.

Then it sounds to me like Joyce was a person who is trying to be too clever by half writing some book only the most up his own arse academic can understand. As I understand it Joyce would probally consider bloomsday to be an absolute travesty because of all the establishment types taking part.

mike65

Originally posted by simu
(from that Guardian article)

Is this true? A famine theme park?

Knockfierna Famine Park

http://knockfierna.tripod.com/aboutus.htm

Actually its not a bad as it sounds.

Mike.

pork99

Originally posted by mike65
Knockfierna Famine Park

http://knockfierna.tripod.com/aboutus.htm

Actually its not a bad as it sounds.

Mike.

I hope it has a nice restaurant

Alan Partridge on the Irish famine "...they could afford to emigrate why couldn't they afford to eat in a modest restaurant? That's what you get for being a picky eater."

Seriously though the Roy Foster book, "The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making It Up In Ireland", mentioned in that Guardian article, is well worth a read. I have it somewhere must get it out and have another look.

OfflerCrocGod

The book is total tripe - I can't figure out why anyone would call it a great book - the back of a Cornflakes box offers better reading. My mother always gives out to me for bad-mouthing the book, she calls it a classic: I have read it she hasn't even opened it:rolleyes:, yes 25% have read it .

Marq

Originally posted by gaelic cowboy
Then it sounds to me like Joyce was a person who is trying to be too clever by half writing some book only the most up his own arse academic can understand.

Have you read it? If not, then perhaps you should, and only then level criticism at those who like the book. Literary criticism often is often taken a lot more seriously when the literature in question has actually been read by the critic.

pork99

The book is total tripe

I agree. Give me Jeffrey Archer any day. Now there's a real writer!

Also Picasso was a crap artist - I much prefer those paintings of crying clowns - so many levels to them. Also those paintings of dogs playing cards. Awesome.

Igor Stravinsky? Total chancer! Phil Coulter runs rings around him.

pork99

There is a handy summary here;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3810193.stm

Also I wonder if this was posted by "the" Stephen Fry;

Lord help us all. "Pretentious drivel", "better off with a good walk rather than reading dusty books". What possible hope is there for a country which with such self-righteous philistinism scorns its own treasures? Ulysses is the greatest novel of the twentieth century. It is is wise, warm, witty, affirmative and beautiful. it is less pretentious than a baked bean. Read it. read it out loud to yourself. It won't bite. It wasn't written either to shock or to impress. Only pretentious barbarians believe artists set out shock: and how these philistines delight in revealing how unshocked they are. Those who attack it are afraid of it and rather than look foolish they prefer to heckle what they don't understand. Ignore all this childish, fear-filled criticism, Ulysses will be read when everything you see and touch around you has crumbled into dust.
Stephen Fry, London, UK

Good man Stephen! well said. I've read Ulysses and I totally agree. It's not an easy read but it is very rewarding if you make the effort.