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Mar 26, 2017scribby rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Unreadable nonsense or an epic/mythic/philosophical/comic masterpiece? Answer to both: yes. If you try to read it as a "regular" novel, it may seem too dense to bother. Or not. If you read it out loud, it transforms into an epic, poetic masterpiece. If you try to analyze it and pick apart its multiple puns, neologisms, and other wordplay, it'll keep you interested for longer than Joyce took to write it. The critique of Anna's letter (which is also the Book of Kells), wordplay in the museum, character sketch of Shem the Penman, and the fate of the Russian general made me laugh out loud (though it took me a while to find the latter); the Mookse and the Gripes, and Yawn at the inquest sequences contain some of the most beguiling dream imagery I've ever encountered in a book. "There's a lot of fun at Finnegan's Wake."