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Thanks Byeckitsparky
Columba
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Ulysses and "Remembrance of things past" are two books I have been meaning to read - or anyway, attempt - all my life, and which are still on my virtual TBR pile. Perhaps I should leave directions that if I haven't read them by the time I die a copy of each should be interred with me.
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I was bored to tears by Proust. No, hang on. Not quite. I was bored to unconsciousness by Proust...
DazTheSlug
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I DNF'd both Ulysses and Swann's Way last year - in both cases I felt they weren't bad, I enjoyed certain aspects, I could see what the author was doing but... I wasn't interested enough to spend more time reading on...
Bazoaxe
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I dont like to DNF a book and persist. Only once with a Le Carre, did I give up
McGoohan
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As I've said before, the audiobook of Colin Farrell reading A Portrait of the Artist really brought it alive for me (he gave all the characters a distinctive voice). I've previously been a DNF on Ulysses but maybe an audiobook would get me through? There are multiple versions/voices on Audible.
GregP
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I gave up with Eleonor Oliphant.
McGoohan
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You packed her trunk
GregP
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Indeed so, McDear Leader. Indeed so.
The Scribbler
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I've done Ulysses twice, once in book form and once as an audio book, but I was an English Lit student when I first read it and could at that time plough through a lot of 'difficult' reading.
The key for me was to let myself drift into it, not trying to understand the language or what was going on all the time, but picking up threads that stuck in my head. I also saw a show in Dublin called Strolling through Ulysses which gave you the essentials in about an hour. Wish I'd seen it when I was at University. Nevertheless I can remember very little about it now.

I gave up on Wolf Hall...

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