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by tracyshaun 2917 days ago
Yes. I only read Finnegans Wake by reading it aloud to myself. I can hear a lot more of the puns and word enjambnents auditorally than I can see them visually.

Having said that, I am still reading the book only a few pages at a time every other week or so. I’m 25 years in and not even close to being done. I’m ok with that.

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I think (for me at least) it's best approached as a kind of wild, surreal poetry with mythological themes and scope.

I've never read it end to end, and I probably never will, but there are passages I have memorized just from rereading them so many times.