1Cecrow
Book club in California celebrates finishing reading James Joyce's famously impenetrable novel Finnegan's Wake:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/finnegans-wake-book-club-1.7028252
If it's going to take that long, I'd better get started!
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/finnegans-wake-book-club-1.7028252
If it's going to take that long, I'd better get started!
2lilithcat
We read bits of it in college, and for some reason the first sentence got stuck in my head. Decades later, remembering it won me a copy of Ulysses at a Bloomsday event!
3MyopicBookworm
We read the first page and a half in school. Amazing piece of work, but utterly bonkers.
4Shaharee 
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>1 Cecrow: My wife threw the book almost into the dumpster fire after reading half a page. The impression exists that only accomplished philologists are able to read Finnegans Wake. All the other ones have to relay upon heavily annotated versions. So I took it upon me to merge Finnegans Wake with the most beautiful book ever printed (the Kelsey-Chaucer), replaced all the foreign language idiosyncrasies with their English equivalent and streamlined Joyce's sibylline prose. Reviewers and other interested parties can now download an ARC of this book on NetGalley by using this link netgal.ly/YHFS53
– Book launch on June 11th, 2024 between 6 and 8 pm at The Hole In The Wall Pub, 527 Blackhorse Avenue, Dublin, County Dublin, D07 NTP1, Ireland.
– Book launch on June 11th, 2024 between 6 and 8 pm at The Hole In The Wall Pub, 527 Blackhorse Avenue, Dublin, County Dublin, D07 NTP1, Ireland.
5amanda52
As a research assistant to an English professor in the 90s, I was assigned--twice--to read FW, scanning for particular letter groups. That means I read it cover to cover, every word.
Twice.
Don't ask. I have no idea.
Twice.
Don't ask. I have no idea.
