Loved your review! Tempted to read the book now though
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We were going on a touring holiday and my darling had thought the time in the car might maybe easier listening to this. I anted to switch it off by the top of the M23 but we got as far as Leicester. Absolute codswallop to me.
I did the Woodlanders for O-Level - pre GCSE - in 1968/9 and loved it. Another book I loved, reading it for my degree course in French, was Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, but I can imagine plenty of others wouldn’t get very far…. Even in English.
That's the end of the book. So when you say you gave up, you read 99% of it
Haha, you really didn't like that book!
I'm not going to concern myself with whether Joyce thought he should have an apostrophe in Finnegans, having seen his ideas on what should be in that bloody book.
I’m only going off what David Renwick wrote in Jonathan Creek
I'd rather read every page of Jack Torrance's "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" than put myself through any Dickens ever again.
The appendix to V1 of Capital is really interesting, and points to a different understanding to the development of capitalism than the one normally taken from Marx (ie, productive industry consolidating, falling rate of profit, increasing class homogenisation and conflict, revolution)
Quarks (the sub-atomic partical) are apparently named after the line "three quarks for mister Mark" in Finnegans Wake.I’m only going off what David Renwick wrote in Jonathan Creek
He has Jonathan asking Maddie “have you ever read Finnegans Wake?” and Maddie shakes her head, so he says paraphrased “nobody has, it’s practically unreadable. But everyone is always adding an apostrophe in, where Joyce deliberately didn’t in order to leave it ambiguous. Did he mean a funeral wake for multiple Finnegans, or one Finnegan awakens, or what”.
It plays a part in the solution to the mystery if anyone is interested, episode “Ghosts Forge”.
As I say, I did try it myself but unreadable doesn’t really do that “novel” justice. Pretentious shite from a man who was going through a mental health crisis at the time post-Ulysses, and high on cocaine and morphine. It can’t be understood because it’s meaningless.Quarks (the sub-atomic partical) are apparently named after the line "three quarks for mister Mark" in Finnegans Wake.
I just had a look on wikipedia and the scientist who named them described coming across the phrase in "one of my occasional perusals of Finnegans Wake", which makes me think he was either a psycho or he never bothered reading it cover to cover either.
Also, for some reason he pronounced it quork, which I've never heard any actual human being do.
I persevered, but struggled with the fact that some characters had more than one name, which made it even harder to follow.
