Comments on: I fear those big words which make us so unhappy. http://counter-force.com/2009/06/16/i-fear-those-big-words-which-make-us-so-unhappy/ (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:14:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Peanut St. Cosmo http://counter-force.com/2009/06/16/i-fear-those-big-words-which-make-us-so-unhappy/#comment-1203 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:38:54 +0000 http://counter-force.com/?p=3708#comment-1203 oh i’ve got a good year before any of those books would be assigned in class. dubliners it is! thanks!
and yes, there’s something to be said about a book you can physically hold vs reading online. maybe that’s old fashioned. or maybe my kindle is just charging…..hah….

]]> By: Marco Sparks http://counter-force.com/2009/06/16/i-fear-those-big-words-which-make-us-so-unhappy/#comment-1201 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:38:46 +0000 http://counter-force.com/?p=3708#comment-1201 But Lollipop was a great point in that I sure as shit wouldn’t want to be in a class that does this book. I mean, that’d be fantastic, but nine times out of ten, the rest of the kids in your class are fucking morons, right? And this is not the kind of book where you have time for someone to talk slower in a discussion over.

]]> By: Marco Sparks http://counter-force.com/2009/06/16/i-fear-those-big-words-which-make-us-so-unhappy/#comment-1199 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:25:17 +0000 http://counter-force.com/?p=3708#comment-1199 It’s the kind of book you read for fun, if your idea of fun is stark sexual mania and ridiculously complicated literature torture and you’ve got a bit of a thing for the works of Homer, but filtered through the skew of a drunken (I know that descriptor may be redundant) Irishman meandering through a city in one day, dealing with his own mortality, the fact that he may be a shit father, and the knowledge that his wife is more than definitely fucking a guy at home in their bed while he’s busy being self obsessed. It’s good stuff.

But yeah, I’d probably start with Dubliners. I’m sure you can find “The Dead” online somewhere to read, but you need it in a good proper book, like, in your hands. Read it on a rainy road trip, naked in silk sheets, or in a chair by a fire.

]]> By: Lollipop Gomez http://counter-force.com/2009/06/16/i-fear-those-big-words-which-make-us-so-unhappy/#comment-1198 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:19:23 +0000 http://counter-force.com/?p=3708#comment-1198 No, start with Dubliners, move on to Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man, and then.. graduate. Get the annotated version.

]]> By: Marco Sparks http://counter-force.com/2009/06/16/i-fear-those-big-words-which-make-us-so-unhappy/#comment-1194 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:07:24 +0000 http://counter-force.com/?p=3708#comment-1194 I don’t think I could say that it would be in good conscience. It’s not so much an anti-novel, but it’s very ergodic.

]]> By: Peanut St. Cosmo http://counter-force.com/2009/06/16/i-fear-those-big-words-which-make-us-so-unhappy/#comment-1193 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:27:27 +0000 http://counter-force.com/?p=3708#comment-1193 if you’ve never read james joyce before, is ulysses a good one to start with?

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