Comments on: ‘Ulysses’ got Twittered. What literary classic should be next?

By: Bunch of stuffy snubs here

Bunch of stuffy snubs here — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:08:38 +0000

I recommend reading the article (or do you prefer glossy EW summaries to reading? Irony overload!). It was a very clever derivative work of art that would only be understood by those who’ve read the book (that’s you, snobs).

By: Jean Genie

Jean Genie — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:18:47 +0000

Whether Twitter is here to stay or just a fad, this idea is hilarious! I still prefer real books, though.

By: Kate L.

Kate L. — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:14:38 +0000

A twitter of Beloved would be hilarious. “Grifter comes in and wets the bed. Might be the baby I killed with a shovel. What kind of name is Denver?”

By: Allie

Allie — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:22:33 +0000

i can’t find ulysses on twitter… also why can’t people just pick up a book and read it? some people depend too much on the internet for things.

By: Melvin

Melvin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:03:36 +0000

To much information to be condense and you don’t experience the full effect of the story. Trust me you will enjoy reading it than just getting the short scenario. Joyce is a genius!

By: JMB

JMB — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:16:43 +0000

As someone who has read Ulysses and studied Joyce, I can tell you that he would have LOVED the idea. Ulysses is full of humor and satire and pathos and the ultimately boring drivel that flows through our brains on a minute by minute basis. And how is this different from Twitter? Ulysses is not a monolith of highbrow snootery–it’s a warm, funny, shocking, heartbreaking, philosophical, and sometimes hard to read treatise on the human condition. Joyce LOVED popular culture, and used it extensively in his writing. He would have been all over Twitter. Drunkenly, and with song.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:28:35 +0000

I also failed to read Ulysses. Maybe after the Infinite Summer is over. Would love to read Godot since I know the basic plot. It seems the perfect Tweet-able book since we all Twitter while waiting.

By: Nix

Nix — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:26:04 +0000

P&P (and I think most of Dickens) does not count as highbrow literature. Dickens wrote to be paid by the word and in Austen’s day novels were considered lowbrow. Joyce is the highbrowest of highbrow and thus much less important outside of academia than the popular Dickens and the immortal Jane.

By: NasaMom

NasaMom — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:59:41 +0000

Ulysses was tweeted on Twitter, but it was about Ulysses the NASA Probe. http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/06/rip-ulysses-solar-probe.html

By: NasaMom

NasaMom — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:57:30 +0000

Ulysses was tweet on Twitter, but it was about NASA's Ulysses Probe. http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/06/rip-ulysses-solar-probe.html