a-new-note t1_jedzm1m wrote on March 31, 2023 at 9:52 AM

Reply to How do you make a habit of reading for leisure, not only for university studies? by bunga_Berapi

Find a book group, either online or attached to the university, and read with them. You'll not only expand outside your own preferences, you may also introduce others to the books you love. And that is always a good incentive to read, even if you're in a slump.

a-new-note t1_jdmf8s8 wrote on March 25, 2023 at 2:10 PM

Reply to I read Finnegan's Wake so you don't have to by machobiscuit

I've never read it. Although as an UG I read Ulysses, and even then I felt that a degree in theology is essential just to begin to understand it. Although religion is only part of it all. Joyce wrote deliberately for people to study his works for ever and ever, amen.

But FW was a favourite of Robert Anton Wilson, who studied it for decades, and he believed it to be, IIRC, the greatest ever work of literature. And Wilson was smart, if a little eccentric. He's worth listening to on FW, if you can find the recordings of his speeches.