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The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle For James Joyce's Ulysses (2014)

by Kevin Birmingham(Favorite Author)

4.33 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1594203369 (ISBN13: 9781594203367)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

The Penguin Press

review 1: This seemed to take the reviewing world by storm, but I thought it was just okay. Partly, I think, that divergence is because the sorts of people who write about books for a living find stories about books inherently fascinating; partly it's because they also have more tolerance for Joyce's writing than I do. Coming at it as a general fan of non-fiction, I could admire the way the author tied together lots of different strands (the New York financier! the Parisian bookseller! the Chicago editors! the judges pretty much everywhere! the peripatetic author and his long-suffering family!) without actually being particularly interested in the content that was being presented with such virtuosity.
review 2: An informative book covering much about Joyce himself ... moreand the writing, publication and court battles over Ulysses. I got a little bogged down about three-quarter way through but am glad to have read it. Several people who were in various ways involved in Ulysses simply disappear from the book and it would have rounded the tale off a little better to have a brief synopsis of what happened to them afterwards. It has however, encouraged me to read more of Joyce, which I will do shortly. And that can be no bad thing... less

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