Finnegans Wake

[ichkeria]

Has anyone read it? I am about to start and I just wondered.

[sandyRoe]

Anna Livia plurabella is a good part. I think more start than ever finish it.

[Kiki-frog]

I had to read it many years ago as a student. I found drinking Guinness helped. Quite seriously. I don't really like Joyce, but some people love him. I'll be interested to read your comments.

[MarkRae]

I couldn't be bothered with it, though I did enjoy "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" and "Ulysses".

[Quizmonkey]

Good luck...

[Infomaniac]

It's not the sort of book you read from cover to cover - it is somewhat circular so you can dip into it anywhere. I preferred Ulysses.

[ichkeria]

I'm not sure you really would want to start reading it from anywhere tho I agree that the nature of the book is such that you can take passages from it and read them in isolation. Is that how you read it Infomaniac?
I intend to start with the second part of the last sentence, armed with commentaries by Tindall and Anthony Burgess.

[sandyRoe]

I suppose the first line on the first page is as good a place as any to start a book.

[jake-the-peg]

The only thing I really know about this is that Muaary Gell-Mann was a fan and took the word "quark" from the line "3 quarks for Muster Mark" which is apparently in Finnigan's Wake and used it to refer to the sub-atomic particle which is where we get the name from

[Bambiagain]

I haven't and I don't feel guilty because the lecturer I had at university who taught Joyce said he'd never managed to.