Finnegans Wake (Abridged) Audiobook

" the simply aren't words. He tears down the english language and recreates it along with all the other components we have come to expect from the novel. "

" I have only lisened to this book--but have studies sections enogh to know that it is a fun read/puzzle in which to lose one's self. "

" oh, mercy. i found the spot in the top of my right hemisphere where joyce's dialect lived and i could only hold it for precious moments. the words were like trout and i had just learned to tie a fly, but i dug it out inch by inch and can't now even tell you what it said, but i can say it was an amazing internal journey that i haven't forgotten. "

" Impossible and impossibly brilliant. "

" this gets stars two, cuz of the sense of making music man made my understanding wains too far to your prairies of misprision and through past howth castle and environs, huh.... "

" It's a beautiful piece of literature, no denying it. It's poignant, perplexing, magical and the language flows as fluently as the river it seeks to describe. Having written a literature paper on it, I read this novel multiple times, each with a different focus in mind. Reading it as a dream initially made the most sense of all readings, yet it still felt incomplete so I employed Freudian reading to it, as well as one with the focus of Irish history and memory. I've read and dissected the novel to its very core, yet something is still missing, and I've realised it's the fact that Joyce isn't here to explain his work that's frustrating me so. Nonetheless, its beautiful, albeit unsatisfying to some extent. "

" This book is unreadable. Really, if James Joyce were still alive, I'd find him and punch him in the nose for all the suffering he's caused me trying to speak intelligently about this gobbelty-gook. All his metaphors and allusions ensure that a great many academics will never have to worry about getting a real job, thanks for that Joycey. "

" A book to pick up for an any-place start and any-place end when I want my brain twisted and memory tested. Read Ulysses first. "

" I get what he's trying to do and its very ground breaking / creative. But its just not very enjoyable to read. "

" Have managed to read it once, understood parts of it but more importantly have realised how hopelessly unqualified I am to even pass a proper comment. Some day. "

" I know everybody likes the big one but I found this one actually fun to read. "

" Mind bender! I think everyone who's ever tried to interpret a dream should read this book. I was amazed at how this book interfaced with my subconscious mind and the daily events that were unfolding in my personal life in 2003. It's certainly a different sort of book. "

" Not much to say, I like Joyce a lot, really love "Ulysses" but find this book to be almost unreadable. There is a musical flow at times, but mostly (to me, at least) this book is just Joyce "proving" he's smarter than anyone else. "

" Joyce can be so unnecessarily complex! If one has the time to let choice words soak, they can be truly transcendent, like refractions of light coming through a drop of water; but as a readable novel - this book fails miserably, unbearably sluggish reading page to page. "

" the most intricate and brain hurting thing I've ever read. but it was so worth it... "

" not gonna lie, i did not even get through ten pages of this. it was a ridiculously difficult read, so hard that i dropped the joyce lit class. sad, i might try to pick it up again in a few years "

" ok, fine, I only read the comprehensible parts of this book... "

" Transcends language. "

" I turned every page of this book. MADNESS. "

" Gibberish. "

" I admire Joyce's experimentalism, but... to quote Dorothy Parker, "This is not a book one puts down lightly. It is to be thrown with great force against a wall." "

" i have been reading it for about three years and still have a few hundred pages to go... "