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• 5.0 out of 5 stars from Roger Saxton -- Finnegans Wake is not about the dreams of the night. It is the dreams of the night! : I love Finnegans Wake, but I had to read it more than once before I felt that way about it. I read it the first time because I heard it was perhaps the most difficult book to read that had ever been written, and I wanted to see if I could do it. It took me more than two years to read it the first time. I read it with the help of the Ronald McHugh book which takes Finnegans Wake line by line and defines foreign and obscure words. I hoped that this would help me understand the book as a whole. It didn't. There were parts here and there I could make out and puns I could enjoy, but I felt hopelessly lost and decided to have nothing more to do with the book once I had finished it. However, I could not get Finnegans Wake out of my mind and decided to tackle it again a few years later. Even though there was more that I understood then than I did the first time I read it, it was still a struggle and it appeared that it would take me as long to finish it the second time as it did the first. One night as I was reading it in a state between being awake and asleep, I started dreaming. As it usually happened, my dreams jumped around from one thing to another with no logic at all. I found myself talking with others in the dream but did not understand the gist of the conversation I was having. I understood the words, but they didn't seem to be connected to each other. As I went in and out of this half awake and half dream state, I thought that dreaming was a lot like reading Finnegans Wake and that reading Finnegans Wake was a lot like dreaming. At that point I completely woke up and realized that my approach to reading the book could not have been more wrong headed. Instead of trying to understand every word and paragraph, I needed to go with the flow and read steadily without stopping. If I understood something, I was happy. If I didn't understand, so what? I kept on going. I found myself laughing at the puns and enjoying the sounds of the words. I finished the last one hundred pages in only few days. In fact, it was hard for me to put the book down even when I had other things to do. It took me only a week and a half to read it the third time, but I got far more out of it that time than I did out of the other two times put together, mainly because I didn't try to get anything out of it! I am now reading it for the fifth time and will continue to read it off and on for the rest of my life. Do I now understand the whole book? No! I probably only understand between one fifth or one sixth of it, but that is enough to hold my interest as I read. Sometimes I encounter sentences made up of foreign words or made up words that I cannnot understand at all. Then I will read a page that I can completely understand. My comprehension of what is said and what is going on fades in and out as I read just as it does when I dream, but every time I read it I pick up on things that I missed during previous readings. Instead of it being a struggle to read Finnegans Wake as it was the first time I tackled it, I now read it because I enjoy it. ( Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2014 )
• 2.0 out of 5 stars from Sam Condon -- Not as advertised. : This is partly my fault because I assumed that everyone knows that Finnegan's Wake has a standard pagination and that those texts which merely reproduce the works of the Wake without the pagination are worth next to nothing. It's like publishing Vico without the paragraph numbering. There is no way to find the text that you're talking about and the presumption of producing a text with nonstandard pagination is to completely misunderstand what Joyce was doing, believing it to be a standard book in which the meaning can be derived from the subject/verb/object/paragraph progression. So I made the mistake of not checking whether this was the standard pagination, but let the next buyer. You want the version in which the final words on page 628 are: ( Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2019 )
• 5.0 out of 5 stars from Zonnet -- Finnegans Wake and the Oresteia : I read Finnegans Wake with the idea that it was, as Joyce said, the "night" to Ulysses' "day", and that therefore it would somehow be based on a classical counterpart which could be read as the night to the Odyssey's day. I took that to be the Oresteia, because Aeschylus' trilogy contains the other, darker homecoming story of the heroes of the Trojan War, and the more night-like, interior (inside the palace, inside the city) consequences of the adventures out in the exterior world found in the Odyssey and the Iliad. ( Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2016 )
• 5.0 out of 5 stars from Tariki -- A must read ! (Or something like that) : Well, first, this particular edition. Begins on the very first page by telling us that Joyce was the oldest often (sic) children. Is this a typo, or are Penguin getting into the spirit of the book? Anyway, whatever, this is certainly the best book I have never read. I have managed the first page or two, but the reality is that I enjoy books ABOUT Finnegans Wake rather than actually attempting to wend my way through it. One book about it informed me that each sentence, even each single word, could be seen as a microcosm of the entire text, so in that context why actually read it all. "riverrun" is enough. Then again, the word play is very enjoyable and the ABC of the book, and a Lexicon, offer endless interest and much humour. Apparently Joyce was heard by his wife late into many a night as he laughed aloud at his own jokes, setting his traps for the future literary critics to decipher, writing yet another un-understandable book that the long suffering Nora Barnacle wished was more "understandable" and thus, perhaps, more of a cash cow. But as I grow older I see more clearly that understanding life is a terrible trap - as thoughts, words and beliefs congeal and enclose the mind in circles of self-justification as the inevitable end approaches. But what end? The end of Finnegans Wake (not that I have ever reached it) takes us back to the beginning. As Joyce said about Ulysses as he faced the obscenity trials, "if Ulysses is unfit to read, then life is unfit to live". So life is to be lived rather than "understood". And Molly Bloom, in Ulysses, ends her monologue with a beautiful "Yes". Learning about Finnegans Wake, from various books, does help me to live, hopefully with compassion and not a little gratitude. Not least for the life and writings of James Joyce himself who gave us this last wonderful book with eyes that just might have reduced many others to night, darkness and despair. So buy a copy, if not to read it, then to have it on your bookshelf to impress the neighbours. ( Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 13, 2019 )
• 5.0 out of 5 stars from Mr. D. James -- Future Fiction : We all love stories, but Finnnegan's Wake is hundreds of stories combined into one glorious rigmarole. The reader (or more likely) the listener to this rambling associative work is presented with the dreams and nightmares of Humphrey Clinker Earwicker , a Dublin pub-keeper and his family, his wife Anna Livia Plurabelle, their sons, Shem and Shaun and their daughter, as they lie asleep throughout one solitary night. But this plot summary is a summary of a novel without a narrative sequence, an experiment rather than a consecutive story of events. In many ways it is the most realistic attempt to penetrate human consciousness the reader is likely to experience in fiction. It was begun in 1922 and remained unfinished at the author's death in 1941. How could it be finished? It is written in defiance of time or sequence. ( Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 17, 2018 )
• 5.0 out of 5 stars from christopher moss -- A very difficult book to read : If you are a Joyce fan and yearn to read all his work, then I advise you to take an "easier" option with FW. Still an unusual read but it can at least be done. ( Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 9, 2017 )
• 1.0 out of 5 stars from J. E. Tyson -- Gobbledegook : Could not understand it ( Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 29, 2019 )
• 5.0 out of 5 stars from stephen kerensky -- Astonishing,dizzing, witty,alarming : Finnegan`s Wake was the way Joyce found to cock a snook at the literary establishments of Ireland and England after his Ulysses was banned. ( Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 5, 2013 )

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