Finnegans Wake by James Joyce;

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce;
Considered one of if not the hardest novel in the English language. I've been meaning to read it, but I don't know if it's worth it, any thoughts?

If you haven't read Joyce's previous stuff don't both. Especially Ulysses. If you aren't a huge fanboy by that point, I would also not bother. It's the kind of thing you have to be convinced that what the person has to say is important to have the stamina to go through it. Even then, without an annotated guide you won't get much from it.

You won't make it passed page 10 because you're a huge fucking pleb faggot.

Good luck.

If you're asking whether you should, the answer is no. I loved it myself, but I never doubted Joyce for a second after Ulysses.

I'll just leave this here.

>Even then, without an annotated guide you won't get much from it
On the contrary, I'd say you'd get the most out of it going in blind. It's not meant to be dissected or puzzled out the way Ulysses was. It's a book of the night, so getting lost in the dark is part of the experience.

Please. It's a humorous book written by an alcoholic.

the thing about darkness is that a candle only makes it bigger

>Please. It's a humorous book written by an alcoholic.

Or it's an as yet still undeciphered book that took 17 years to write by a staggering Irish literary genius who also happened to be an alcoholic.

One or the other. Potato potato. Tomato tomato. Perspective and all that.

You're an alcoholic and I appreciate your perspective.