Saturday, May 14, 2011

Bargains ...

... 1p Review: Ulysses by James Joyce � The Dabbler. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Many people believe that Ulysses is a difficult book. It’s a long book certainly, but so was the last Harry Potter. And ‘difficulty’ is very much a matter of context: Ulysses is difficult compared to, say, Roald Dahl’s The BFG, granted; but next to The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, to take one example, it really is a cinch.

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