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The last person who posted in here asking for help asked 12th March 2006, 02:11 AM. You think this will work? Watch someone will come and help you just to make me look like an ass. So I'm doing you a favour here.

I agree with your point overall but can't help but feel that quoted point is hypocritical.

I usually read them but I save them all as afterwards.

What are you referring to? Pynchon for example? Joyce?

I'm now around p. 130. I can't say it's easy and that I know what's going very well. I got that Stephen went to the beach, I got that Leopold Bloom had liver for breakfast. My problem lies in the stream of conciousness. It may be allegorical, it may really be nonsense too, but I feel like...

Is David Eggers at all similar to Jonathan Safran Foer? For some reason I think they are...maybe I know someone who likes them both. I dunno, Eggers is the name that came to me when I saw this. I haven't read either so take this post lightly.

Now, over a year later I have started Ulysses. Fifty pages in and I am still alive. Unfortunately the version I have is not annotated. When the day comes for a second reading I will make sure I have an annotated copy for closer reading. This time is just for the ride. As a side there are...

Dracula, Bram Stoker 3.75/5 315 pages. The Elementary Particles, Michel Houellebecq 3.75/5 264 pages. Freakonomics, Levitt and Dubner 3/5 207 pages. The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky 4/5 615 pages. The Brooklyn Follies, Paul Auster 4/5 306 pages. Ringworld, Larry Niven 3/5 342 pages...

So she's getting older and wondering what to do in life and you want to get a book that answers those questions? When you find it let me know.

You don't think Snowman is a martyr?

Did you search? That discussion was moved to fiction.

I didn't put it in Sc-fi and fantasy because from what I heard it wasn't being pitched as that. It's being sold by the publisher as fiction/literature. At least here in Canada. Some cover comparisons: Canadian/American/UK I like the Canadian cover best myself.

I meant to pay attention last year but forgot all about it. Probably do the same this year.

Translated from the french by Frank Wynne:

That's good to know. Do you know from what she draws inspiration?

What about those Marion Zimmer-Bradley books? Mists of Avalon? Arthurian Fantasy with female leads I think. Doesn't the Diana Gabaldon series have a female lead?

Ulysses, James Joyce

And here I thought I had news. :rolleyes:

Site for Kay's new book launches.

You think she is even in the state of mind where she's going to read a book? Nevermind actually learn from it? You should be sure of this before you waste your money and frustrate her with a white elephant.