What should I expect? Please, no spoilers.
Disliken as he was to druriodrama, her
wife Langley, the prophet, and the decentest dozendest short of a frusker
whoever stuck his spickle through his spoke, disappeared, (in which
toodooing he has taken all the French leaves unveilable out of
Calomnequiller's Pravities) from the sourface of this earth, that austral
plain he had transmaried himself to, so entirely spoorlessly (the mother
of the book with a dustwhisk tabularasing his obliteration done upon her
involucrum) as to tickle the speculative to all but opine (since the Levey
who might have been Langley may have really been a redivivus of
paganinism or a volunteer Vousden) that the hobo (who possessed a
large amount of the humoresque) had transtuled his funster's latitat to its
finsterest interrimost
>>8521766
Either a formless and dull mass of phony folklore or the greatest masterpiece of 20th century prose.
>>8521766
He rapes his sister, Anna Livia, in an outhouse.
Check out my dubliners first
Why would you ever want to expect anything
>>8521766
Où nevers innuendo fit self
>BIG FAT FELLOWS came roaring past Nora's gristly, billowing arse cheeks, out through her shite-pipe and on to my ready and willing face. May I never become inured with her stink!
What did he mean by this?
>>8521766
Have you read Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist first?
>>8521830
I want to get my money's worth.
>>8521921
It's usually not much of a big deal to read an author in chronological order, but with Joyce it is a very good idea.
Yes.
>>8521766
Expect there to be several layers of meaning behind the absence of an apostrophe in Finnegans
>>8522409
You put the title wrong so no good answers.
>>8521766
>caring about the plot in a Joyce novel
This must be bait. Right...
>>8521766
>Ulysses
A jew getting repeatedly cucked by his wife after his son dies but learning to accept his situation.
>Finnegans Wake
A guy with subconscious guilt about wanting to have sex with his own daughter falls asleep and has a dream about being lots of different famous historical figures as a way to try to run away from his perceived sins.