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lol 'Finnegans Wake' in Jamal's book stack.

posted 15 years ago by xman_01
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Am I honestly supposed to believe a sixteen year old read "Finnegans Wake"? Scholars can't even figure out what the hell James Joyce was writing about; some of them even think "Finnegans Wake" was a huge joke on the literary world.

The idea of a sixteen year old reading "Finnegans Wake" is like someone reading a book in a language they don't understand. Yeah, sure, you could have read it but you didn't comprehend a single thing that was written.

This movie tries too hard to appeal to the literary world. Oh wait, there isn't a literary world anymore. It died when the TV was invented.

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[–] ZildjianDFW 15 years ago

The movie never says he comprehended it. And you yourself say he could have read it nonetheless...so...what's the issue here?

And as for the literary world being dead: tell that to Thomas Pynchon and Cormac McCarthy.

[–] SupNav 15 years ago

If you read Roger Ebert's review you will see that he notes that Finnegan's Wake is the only book in the stack that is not all wrinkled and beat up, implying that Jamal never read the book. Ebert notes that this is the book "that everybody buys, but nobody reads"