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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > Books that throw you in the deep end?
 
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Eugene V. Dubstep
Oct 4, 2013
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dogcrash truther posted:

Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake.

Nah. FW is obtuse for other reasons, and Ulysses has no action or alien concepts to throw you in the middle of. It's just some guys waking up and having breakfast in regular old Sandycove, Ireland, and then doing stuff the rest of the day, with some flashbacks thrown in. It might make you feel less dumb to have read a shitload of Aristotle and Aquinas beforehand, but you don't need a lot of background information on characters and events unless you're completely unfamiliar with modern Irish history and Catholicism.

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