GR Overrated?

Dave Monroe against.the.dave at gmail.com
Fri Aug 12 19:45:58 CDT 2011


On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Canonical books I did not enjoy include The Iliad and The Sound and
> the Fury, and, although I did read Ulysses with some degree of
> technical interest, it wasn't fun for me. I maintain that this doesn't
> reflect badly on Homer, Faulkner, Joyce, or me."

... a perfesser of mine once said that Ulysses was the greatest novel
he could never enjoy.

His favorite novel, meanwhile, is Finnegans Wake.



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