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A review by tumblyhome_caroline
The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses by Kevin Birmingham
5.0
This book is Bloomin’ BRILLIANT. I was glued to it.
It is just an excellent biography of a book from conception to ongoing and eternal life. Honestly, the book discussed within this book itself ended up with a character and it walked through the pages bold as brass.
It also is a fascinating examination of the creative process. I always enjoy hearing about how artists (in all mediums) work, think and create. This book excels at showing that. I absolutely loved hearing how this process was such a painful journey for Joyce and truly took his whole soul to write. I think the sort of writer who worked as Joyce did is a very rare and incredible genius.
The whole subject of censorship, banning books, burning books was both terrible and thought provoking. It will give me so much to think about. I just read Plato’s Republic and the subject is discussed in that.so reading this fitted in nicely with that. This is a subject too big for a GoodReads review, but it is an interesting thought experiment to mull over.
The research for the book felt well done. I didn’t feel the author had an agenda other than to tell the story of the book, the author and the times…it was gripping, interesting, thought provoking and just BRILLIANT.
It is just an excellent biography of a book from conception to ongoing and eternal life. Honestly, the book discussed within this book itself ended up with a character and it walked through the pages bold as brass.
It also is a fascinating examination of the creative process. I always enjoy hearing about how artists (in all mediums) work, think and create. This book excels at showing that. I absolutely loved hearing how this process was such a painful journey for Joyce and truly took his whole soul to write. I think the sort of writer who worked as Joyce did is a very rare and incredible genius.
The whole subject of censorship, banning books, burning books was both terrible and thought provoking. It will give me so much to think about. I just read Plato’s Republic and the subject is discussed in that.so reading this fitted in nicely with that. This is a subject too big for a GoodReads review, but it is an interesting thought experiment to mull over.
The research for the book felt well done. I didn’t feel the author had an agenda other than to tell the story of the book, the author and the times…it was gripping, interesting, thought provoking and just BRILLIANT.