I've read this book three times. The first time, I was bewildered. The second time, I understood a lot more, and by the end of the third reading, I understood why it's considered a master-piece. I am a Dublin man myself, and this book captures something that I cannot easily put into words. It makes me feel at home, but not in the Dublin of 2023, but rather in an idealised version of the city that doesn't really exist. It's a magical book, and despite its difficulty, it is a fantastic read.
Dear Dublin man, I am about to dive in the story..I am sure this will be my book. I've visited this month Dublin...hopefully not for the last time. Fantastic island and people. Cheers!
My professor at FIU in 1976 read aloud to the class in memorable fashion, implanting in our minds how the book was intended to sound. Forever grateful for that gift he gave us.
Why do you think it's such a surprise for media to be shared on a media sharing platform, it's only lately we see greedy selfish people sneakily strike good people's channels who offer up something more than live streaming abuse and Insanity?
Joyce wasn't a farmhand, nor were any of his characters. No need to mangle the work in heavy dialects.... too much acting takes away from the written work.
I would gladly be touched for a hundred guineas... t’would be a mere token for the enjoyment this masterful narration. Thank you, thank you.....Miss Jenny.
i wish i was brainy lol :* im trying but i dont think i could understand it with my iq. would i need to have read all those greek texts to be able to understand ullyses?
@@susanlansley8655 No. The Odyssey was used quite loosely by Joyce to help him create a framework for writing his book, but the reader can enjoy the book without any knowledge of Greek mythology.
I purchased this book while on holiday, ( from Londonderry), in Dublin back in 1994 and proceeded to read it over a six week period I am currently rereading it in sync with this fabulous gentleman’s narration An entirely different experience when listening along to his spot-on dialect
Thanks for the wonderful reading!... Magic book indeed, my favourite one, my everlasting reading and re-reading. A sort of electricity inside makes everything and everybody alive...and I'm there too. More and more involved. I'm Italian but it's really amazing how I feel that Dublin and its atmosphere. Sort of time gate.
I have read this book twice,don’t despair if you don’t finish it or don’t understand it. It’s filled with much nonsense and many made up words that have no meaning. Still JOYCE WAS A GENIUS with a great vocabulary and loved to show off.😊
This is the first time that I understood the "collector of prepuces" = the Lord! Another hidden youtube treasure wirh a professional Irish reader, wow.
The first paragraph tells me unfortunately I did not receive an education sufficiently to understand such a novel . This reflects a time of this age where the system only educates the rich and powerful . I shall make it my mission to learn each word I cannot define . However at the age of 42 I fear may never finish this masterpiece of the 20th century.
@@AsianAnticsOfficialI don't understand your question. It was written by an Irish author and it takes place in Dublin. The idiosyncrasies in the language are clearly Irish in general, and more specifically south Dublin. Are you suggesting all English language authors write in UK language and slang? English is the language. UK is a country.
Thanks to all concerned for this beautiful noise..have tried to get through the book but to my shame can't get past page 45 (and I've finished off war and peace and several old Trollope's), and thus it's stuck in my craw for a decade or so, I now belly crawl towards my third attempt by way of UA-cam reconnoitre.
One of the best recordings is held, or was held, by the Library of Congress in their Talking Books program. Alexander Scourby was the reader. Excellently hypnotic.
I first heard this version 15 years ago and was astounded by it. If this was the _only_ thing Jim Norton ever did he could die happy, and it's far from the only great thing
Minor pronunciation correction for anyone into the fine detail (in a brilliant reading, to be fair), the hospital mentioned at 13:48 is the Mater, (full name Mater Misericordiae but called the Mater by everyone) and is pronounced 'mah-ter' in Ireland, not 'mayter'.
It's a quare thing, this "Ulysses" by James Joyce, isn't it now? A work of words like a river flowin', twistin' and turnin' through the mind's labyrinth, carryin' us along on a voyage of discovery through the streets of dear Dublin. In "Ulysses," Joyce takes us on a grand odyssey, a single day in the life of Leopold Bloom, a man of humble means but vast imagination, traversin' the city streets with the weight of the world upon his shoulders. And alongside him, we find Stephen Dedalus, a young man searchin' for meaning in the midst of uncertainty, his thoughts like birds takin' flight into the boundless sky. But ah, it's not just about the characters, no. It's about the very fabric of language itself, woven into a tapestry of sound and rhythm that echoes the heartbeat of Dublin. Joyce's words dance upon the page, playful and profound, invitin' us to listen closely, to hear the music in the mundane and the magic in the everyday. Sure and there are challenges along the way, with the text like a maze of mirrors reflectin' back upon itself, twistin' and turnin' in unexpected ways. But ah, it's worth the effort, for within these pages lies a treasure trove of wisdom and wonder, waitin' to be discovered by those with the courage to embark upon the journey. So take my hand, dear reader, and let us wander together through the streets of Dublin, through the pages of "Ulysses," where the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and the language sings like a symphony of the soul. For in the end, it's not just a book, but an experience, an adventure, a pilgrimage of the mind that will stay with you long after the final page is turned.
I'm still in.my first year, but picking it up and putting it down this is my fourth attempt. I open and read it here and there as with front to back I throw it against the wall, figuratively speaking. Why can't we break free. Is it a sign of addiction :-) I tire of the drinking, bar scenes, and Jewish slurs. Maybe I'm too old to this thing!?
Pure poetry. Sadly, after four reading of Ulysses, I tried Finnegan's Wake. I made it ninety-nine pages and, after reading ninety-nine pages, I know just as much about the book as someone who's read no pages of Finnegan's Wake...
I'm ecstatic in finding this, because I'd lost the focus I'd once had, to read an actual book. I'm missing the tactile experience of reading a book, yet I can't stick with it.
Is there a book I can read which will help me understand this novel. Because despite returning to it every few days I have'nt got a feckin clue what Joyce is on about !
The wanderers “Mark my words, he said. England is in the hands of the ews. In all the highest places: her finance, her press. And they are the signs of a nation’s decay. Wherever they gather they eat up the nation’s vital strength. I have seen it coming these years. As sure as we are standing here the ew merchants are already at their work of destruction. Old England is dying.”
I'll have a go at summarising it in one sentence: Bloom, a middle-aged Dubliner wanders the city on the day of an acquaintance's funeral, musing in poetic detail on life and on love, and pondering his own reaction to his wife's affair, while various people engage him in conversations which, like his inner-most thoughts, vary from frivolous and jocular to weighty and filled with classical and historical references, eventually ending up with his pal Stephen, some of whose day was also described, drinking in a brothel before returning to his home where he and his wife separately contemplate their life together.
I've read this book three times. The first time, I was bewildered. The second time, I understood a lot more, and by the end of the third reading, I understood why it's considered a master-piece. I am a Dublin man myself, and this book captures something that I cannot easily put into words. It makes me feel at home, but not in the Dublin of 2023, but rather in an idealised version of the city that doesn't really exist.
It's a magical book, and despite its difficulty, it is a fantastic read.
Dear Dublin man, I am about to dive in the story..I am sure this will be my book. I've visited this month Dublin...hopefully not for the last time. Fantastic island and people. Cheers!
@@Saluz124 Enjoy!
The book sucks
I started it decades ago and swore I would get through it someday. Maybe if I listen to this I will be more apt to attempt an actual read, again.
I have always struggled with this book but to hear it narrated like this it absolutely came alive for me. Thank you for the upload!
My professor at FIU in 1976 read aloud to the class in memorable fashion, implanting in our minds how the book was intended to sound. Forever grateful for that gift he gave us.
This is hands down the most fantastic narration I've ever heard. And for such a complex piece of art. Amazing that it's free.
Why do you think it's such a surprise for media to be shared on a media sharing platform, it's only lately we see greedy selfish people sneakily strike good people's channels who offer up something more than live streaming abuse and Insanity?
The most enjoyable reading I've ever heard. Give the man a moustache and a cookie, and let it crumble softly down the days!
lmao
Yes! James Joyce = Genius! This narrator= Genius!
The man reading Joyce is magnificent!
he is... Bishop Brennan no less!
@@epiphamas No shit, really? That's hilarious, and he really does an incredible job
Truly best
Joyce wasn't a farmhand, nor were any of his characters. No need to mangle the work in heavy dialects.... too much acting takes away from the written work.
@@dangcity1061 Not Jim Norton (Bishop Brennan) who does a great job in his own version, this is a guy called John Lee.
I would gladly be touched for a hundred guineas... t’would be a mere token for the enjoyment this masterful narration. Thank you, thank you.....Miss Jenny.
Book I - The Telemachiad
- Chapter 1 [Telemachus] 0:0
- Chapter 2 [Nestor] 47:59
- Chapter 3 [Proteus] 1:18:45
Book II - The Odyssey
- Chapter 4 [Calypso] 2:02:30
- Chapter 5 [Lotus Eaters] 2:44:25
- Chapter 6 [Hades] 3:28:50
- Chapter 7 [Aeolus] 4:43:33
- Chapter 8 [Lestrygonians] 5:55:15
- Chapter 9 [Scylla and Charybdis] 7:25:40
i wish i was brainy lol :* im trying but i dont think i could understand it with my iq. would i need to have read all those greek texts to be able to understand ullyses?
@@susanlansley8655 No. The Odyssey was used quite loosely by Joyce to help him create a framework for writing his book, but the reader can enjoy the book without any knowledge of Greek mythology.
lilian shak .. thanks for doing this!!
@@susanlansley8655 Just "The Odyssey." Each chapter of Ulysses mirrors those books of Odyssey. Best to also use a concordance.
Thank you!
🙏
I purchased this book while on holiday, ( from Londonderry), in Dublin back in 1994 and proceeded to read it over a six week period
I am currently rereading it in sync with this fabulous gentleman’s narration
An entirely different experience when listening along to his spot-on dialect
it’s called derry
This is fantastic. There was never any chance of me reading the whole book! The a narrator is great too! Thanks!
Yea, I've read the first ten pages quite a few times over the decades...
So true. If I can stay awake but I have my whole life. Love the accent. Now I can brag I read it and no nodoze needed.
@@astrogypsy so many used copies with a bookmark page 11
@@spensert4933 in the 'academic world', idk if that's the term I think fits best maybe not, is Ulysses considered the most "challenging" book?
@@a.whyattmann5057 Only one of many challenging books.
Thanks for the wonderful reading!... Magic book indeed, my favourite one, my everlasting reading and re-reading. A sort of electricity inside makes everything and everybody alive...and I'm there too. More and more involved. I'm Italian but it's really amazing how I feel that Dublin and its atmosphere. Sort of time gate.
I have read this book twice,don’t despair if you don’t finish it or don’t understand it. It’s filled with much nonsense and many made up words that have no meaning. Still JOYCE WAS A GENIUS with a great vocabulary and loved to show off.😊
I plopped onto this pondering globe 🌎 on Bloomsday 1969!Joyce forever
Thrilled I’ve just discovered I don’t need buy specific audio book thank you I’m loving it. 🎉🎉🎉
This is the first time that I understood the "collector of prepuces" = the Lord! Another hidden youtube treasure wirh a professional Irish reader, wow.
Each sentence is a novel… so bloody brilliant….
Thank Christ, not a fkn Librivox reader! Great narration, thanks for posting 🙏🏼🌹
The first paragraph tells me unfortunately I did not receive an education sufficiently to understand such a novel . This reflects a time of this age where the system only educates the rich and powerful . I shall make it my mission to learn each word I cannot define . However at the age of 42 I fear may never finish this masterpiece of the 20th century.
No, it doesn't and you didn't. Education is for everyone. We have youtube, we have Google, we have the book.
its just words nobody uses, and its slang you have to understand living in the UK back then
@@AsianAnticsOfficialUK? 😂 Tell us you haven't read it without telling us you haven't read it
@@woodybobs2638 tell me what origin of the word stairhead came from 😂😂😂
@@AsianAnticsOfficialI don't understand your question. It was written by an Irish author and it takes place in Dublin. The idiosyncrasies in the language are clearly Irish in general, and more specifically south Dublin. Are you suggesting all English language authors write in UK language and slang? English is the language. UK is a country.
Amazing narrator!!! Thank you kindly for uploading
Bookmark: 2:02:30
“Tell him if he smokes he won’t grow”, “oh let him, his life is no bed of roses.”
I’m listening to this on Bloomsday 2020!
🤣
Superb narrator. Thank you!
HAving read till Molly..Thought I should immerse myself before I enter the final chapter... This is wonderful!
Muchas gracias, Kenneth. Greetings from Mexico City.
a masterpiece of reading..
Much better than the other narrations on youtube. Thank you!
That must hard work reading all that out perfectly
Thanks to all concerned for this beautiful noise..have tried to get through the book but to my shame can't get past page 45 (and I've finished off war and peace and several old Trollope's), and thus it's stuck in my craw for a decade or so, I now belly crawl towards my third attempt by way of UA-cam reconnoitre.
One of the best recordings is held, or was held, by the Library of Congress in their Talking Books program. Alexander Scourby was the reader. Excellently hypnotic.
Amazing reading. Faultless.
Amazing narration - Thanks for the upload!
1:38:12 (just my bookmark)
Thank you very much! Wonderful work of reading (this masterpiece)!
“When I make tea, I make tea. When I make water I make water”
“His eyes flashed blue in the sunbeam”
And I hope you don't use the same pot.
Oh thank the gods, it's not a flipping Librivox one.
vermilion987 Hear, hear! I can’t bear that ‘This is a LibraVox recording, all LibraVox recordings are.......’ before every. damn. chapter. any more.
@Matt Mayuiers "This is a Librivox recording, all Librivox recordings are read by someone who sounds like Woody Allen on valium".
I’m so glad the characters are speaking with accents. It started making sense when I read it in the accent.
Also puts voice actors at a disadvantage...
u get what u pay 4
I first heard this version 15 years ago and was astounded by it. If this was the _only_ thing Jim Norton ever did he could die happy, and it's far from the only great thing
The great of thegreat narrator.
Doing cheapo camping with my mum n dad in Spain late 60's I read this book, nothing else to do but swim, eat, sleep, couldn't've managed it else.
Many thanks for an excellent reading!
This is brilliant!
1:09:46 A man of genius makes no mistakes
Minor pronunciation correction for anyone into the fine detail (in a brilliant reading, to be fair), the hospital mentioned at 13:48 is the Mater, (full name Mater Misericordiae but called the Mater by everyone) and is pronounced 'mah-ter' in Ireland, not 'mayter'.
It's a quare thing, this "Ulysses" by James Joyce, isn't it now? A work of words like a river flowin', twistin' and turnin' through the mind's labyrinth, carryin' us along on a voyage of discovery through the streets of dear Dublin.
In "Ulysses," Joyce takes us on a grand odyssey, a single day in the life of Leopold Bloom, a man of humble means but vast imagination, traversin' the city streets with the weight of the world upon his shoulders. And alongside him, we find Stephen Dedalus, a young man searchin' for meaning in the midst of uncertainty, his thoughts like birds takin' flight into the boundless sky.
But ah, it's not just about the characters, no. It's about the very fabric of language itself, woven into a tapestry of sound and rhythm that echoes the heartbeat of Dublin. Joyce's words dance upon the page, playful and profound, invitin' us to listen closely, to hear the music in the mundane and the magic in the everyday.
Sure and there are challenges along the way, with the text like a maze of mirrors reflectin' back upon itself, twistin' and turnin' in unexpected ways. But ah, it's worth the effort, for within these pages lies a treasure trove of wisdom and wonder, waitin' to be discovered by those with the courage to embark upon the journey.
So take my hand, dear reader, and let us wander together through the streets of Dublin, through the pages of "Ulysses," where the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and the language sings like a symphony of the soul. For in the end, it's not just a book, but an experience, an adventure, a pilgrimage of the mind that will stay with you long after the final page is turned.
This is going to take me 20 years to get through, even with someone else reading the damn thing to me :(
Glad someone will take longer then me: 10 years here 😏
I'm still in.my first year, but picking it up and putting it down this is my fourth attempt. I open and read it here and there as with front to back I throw it against the wall, figuratively speaking. Why can't we break free. Is it a sign of addiction :-) I tire of the drinking, bar scenes, and Jewish slurs. Maybe I'm too old to this thing!?
Fair play to the reader, he is good
Two great writers of that influenced the 20th century, James Joyce and Jaroslav Hasek .
Brilliant
For the love of god and all things holy in the universe finite and infinite plz, who is this holy narrator?
John Lee
'Tis Bishop Brennan, so it is.
Could you please Credit the narrator....!!!!
Irish actor Jim Norton
@@hilarychandler3621 Bishop Brennan no less!
Not Bishop Brennan. John Lee
12:36---------Ele olhou para o rosto de Stephen enquanto falava. Uma brisa
ligeira passou pela sua testa,
Brilliant. ❤🎉
This better be good
Pure poetry. Sadly, after four reading of Ulysses, I tried Finnegan's Wake. I made it ninety-nine pages and, after reading ninety-nine pages, I know just as much about the book as someone who's read no pages of Finnegan's Wake...
17:27-- Recolhida redobrada na memória da natureza com brinquedos que eram
dela.
Very simple in reality !
Um tesouro precioso!
I'm ecstatic in finding this, because I'd lost the focus I'd once had, to read an actual book. I'm missing the tactile experience of reading a book, yet I can't stick with it.
James Joyce could of constructed a poem out of one word!
Fantastic reading
Thanks Kenneth
Happy Bloomsday 24'
56 seconds in put yer good socks on boys its gonna be a hell of a ride
Great read
Thank you
Part 1
- Chapter 1 47:59
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
Part 2
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7 4:43:33
- Chapter 8
can totally like relate to joyce like he is so intellectual
like totally
Omg it’s so totally true, like
saaame gurrrllll
OMG, Yes! SLAY
Omg same like he is literally me. I’m always writing books that revolutionaize the art of novel writing. I can’t even. We’re like twins.
Is there a book I can read which will help me understand this novel. Because despite returning to it every few days I have'nt got a feckin clue what Joyce is on about !
There's a website called The Joyce Project that has the text of the novel with lots of links to notes and explanations in each paragraph.
Re Joyce by Anthony Burgess is wonderful.
@@jatrius “re Joyce” that’s a funny one 😉
Chapter 1 ends 2:02:28
Please enable caption
“Whoops, forgot to press record.”
Does anyone know the starting times for books 13 and 18?
The snotgreen sea.
23:01 i makes tea.
42:51 here here.
Part 2 8:21:20 pg 187
The wanderers “Mark my words, he said. England is in the hands of the ews. In all the highest places: her finance, her press. And they are the signs of a nation’s decay. Wherever they gather they eat up the nation’s vital strength. I have seen it coming these years. As sure as we are standing here the ew merchants are already at their work of destruction. Old England is dying.”
Thanks
Anyone know if this is an unabridged reading? Thanks.
Yes it is. I am listening and reading the Penguin version at the same time. A few slight variations here and there. But is complete.
The reader, who is he?
What is the readers name?? Excellent!!
John Lee
58:21 page 28(bookmark)
36:37---Olhos, pálidos
Now Finnegan‘s Wake please.
There's a good one on youtube by Patrick Horgan, unfortunately the sound is awful.
18:18 bookmark
Vanity?
16:03 "seaward, where he gazed...."
17:16 "I am the boy that can enjoy invisibility"
17:29 "folded away in the memory of nature with her toys"
Great reader! pity there's no info or about...
Who is the Narrator???
John Lee
I can hear a slight of the Irish accent.
Bookmark: 1:25:00
Personal bookmark
52:41
Where is part 2
You can presently find it below or it is presently Googleable :-)
37:20 Chant of Christ
3:58:37 p152
But life is the great teacher
CooL😎
My eight year old could write this!
Surely you jest.
2:50:41 bookmark
Did tiktok bring you here?
Great narration, but I wish I understood what the hell is going on in this book! What’s it all about?
I'll have a go at summarising it in one sentence: Bloom, a middle-aged Dubliner wanders the city on the day of an acquaintance's funeral, musing in poetic detail on life and on love, and pondering his own reaction to his wife's affair, while various people engage him in conversations which, like his inner-most thoughts, vary from frivolous and jocular to weighty and filled with classical and historical references, eventually ending up with his pal Stephen, some of whose day was also described, drinking in a brothel before returning to his home where he and his wife separately contemplate their life together.
..which is a bit like making the Godfather sound like an episode of Murder She Wrote, sorry.
Schowalter Street
Read it 20% less quickly if you please
You can set playback speed on UA-cam
Marvellous! TG! But Gogarty would have sounded posher. Don't bother reading his buke.
2️⃣ 48:00 times stamp.
Verna Corners