Brooke's Book Blog: Ulysses is Terrible

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Ulysses is Terrible

I mean really terrible. I am 70% done. I don't think anyone really understands this book, so they just make it one of the top 5 because everyone else does. It is like the movie "The Talented Mr. Ripley." It got amazing reviews, but I didn't get it. I don't think anyone got it, but no one wanted to admit it. Hoping to finish this one soon. It does help me fall asleep at night.

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Completed Books

Sonnets - William Shakespeare (No. 52)
The Education of Henry Adams - Henry Adams (No. 87)
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (No. 56)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (No. 54)
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (No. 35)
The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli (No. 31)
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie (No. 22)
Quotations from Chairman Mao - Mao Zedong (No. 88)
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf (No. 7)
Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad (No. 93)
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (No. 84)
1984 - George Orwell (No. 2)
Ulysses - James Joyce (No. 3)
Middlemarch - George Eliot (No. 13)
Pride and Predjudice - Jane Austen (No. 9)
An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser (No. 80)
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (No. 40)
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (No. 75)
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (No. 48)
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison (No. 6)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers (No. 70)
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegaut (No. 60)
The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West (No. 81)
Hamlet - William Shakespeare (No. 49)
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller (No. 19)
Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri (No. 10)
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf (No. 24)
Night - Elie Wiesel (No. 76)
The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (No. 15)
Eminent Victorians - Lytton Strachey (No. 98)
The Social Contract - Jean-Jacques Rosseau (No. 29)
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton (No. 78)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey (No. 58)
On the Road - Jack Kerouac (No. 39)
The Histories - Herodotus (No. 28)
Light in August - William Faulkner (No. 43)
On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin (No. 27)
Animal Farm - George Orwell (No. 61)
Lord of the Flies - William Golding (No. 62)
The Bible (No. 41)
Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes (No. 33)
The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett (No. 83)
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (No. 21)
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift (No. 12)
Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather (No. 85)
King Lear - William Shakespeare (No. 50)
Confessions - St. Augustine (No. 32)
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway (No. 59)
Canterbury Tales - Geoffery Chaucer (No. 11)
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe (No. 14)
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess (No. 42)
Paradise Lost - John Milton (No. 47)
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (No. 46)
The Varieties of Religious Experience - William James (No. 89)
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler (No. 66)
Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman (No. 53)
Go Tell it on the Mountain - James Baldwin (No. 73)
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell (No. 16)
Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville (No. 26)
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (No. 96)
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner (No. 5)
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (No. 18)
I, Claudius - Robert Graves (No. 69)

Books Still to Go

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (No. 1)
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (No. 4)
The Illiad and the Odyssey - Homer (No. 8)
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (No. 17)
Beloved - Toni Morrison (No. 20)
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (No. 23)
Native Son - Richard Wright (No. 25)
Das Kapital - Karl Marx (No. 30)
The History of the Pelopennesian War - Thucydides (No. 34)
Winnie-the-Pooh - AA Milne (No. 36)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis (No. 37)
A Passage to India - EM Forster (No. 38)
The Souls of Black Folk - WEB DuBois (No. 44)
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys (No. 45)
Kim - Rudyard Kipling (No. 55)
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison (No. 57)
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote (No. 63)
The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing (No. 64)
Remberence of Things Past - Marcel Proust (No. 65)
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner (No. 67)
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway (No. 68)
Sons and Lovers - DH Lawrence (No. 71)
All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren (No. 72)
Charlotte's Web - EB White (No. 74)
Rabbit, Run - John Updike (No. 77)
Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth (No. 79)
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller (No. 82)
The Interpretation of Dreams - Sigmund Freud (No. 86)
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh (No. 90)
Silent Spring - Rachel Carson (No. 91)
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money - John Maynard Keynes (No. 92)
Goodbye to All That - Robert Graves (No. 94)
The Affluent Society - John Kennenth Galbraith (No. 95)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X (No. 97)
The Color Purple - Alice Walker (No. 99)
The Second World War - Winston Churchill (No. 100)

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