LOVED IT


I recently got into Joyce through the writings of Robert Anton Wilson after having been mortified for years to go anywhere near his work due to people telling me how difficult it is.

I started with Dubliners, A Portrait and now I have recently finished Ulysses, and LOVED it. Really loved it, I cannot remember the last time I was so into a book . . . Whenever I wasn't reading it I was thinking about it, wondering what made this character do this and that one do that, and why this happened, and who was that, etc. etc. etc.

It really distresses me that people make others frightened of even picking it up, and make it sound like some drab literary excercise when it is alive with power and passion and humour.

After finishing the book I was poking around on the net and came across this IMDB listing, which I hadn't heard about before. After some digging I found a store which caried Bloom on the weekend and watched it - I really enjoyed it.

I think Mr. Walsh did a magnificent job bringing this book to the screen . . . and despite what others have written I think it was a stroke of genius to bookend the movie with Molly's speech, it brings Joyce's mirror-image concept to life easily.

Good work Mr. Walsh.

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Thank you for your kind comments Baron Vonhoopla!

With my best regards, Sean Walsh

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