Re: Joyce, episode 0 - Introduction to James Joyce's Ulysses

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[Helen Ellis]

Okay, you've got me hooked.

[Kcecelia]

I am in love. This is a wonderment. More.

[stanley goldstein]

A grand addition to Joyceana.
stanley

[Rosalind Adam]

Fascinating. Looking forward to the next episode.

[Lydia Presley]

Thank you for doing this - this is fantastic.

[Brendan McCabe]

I am very excited about this podcast! I just got back from reading the Sirens episode at our local library's first Bloomsday event. I too gave up the first time, partly because I'd gotten the book from the library and knew I'd never get it finished within the 30-day loan period. So, a few years later I discovered various etexts online and began again. But this time I recorded and released MP3s of my readings, which made it more difficult to give up. The results, flawed as they are, are at http://joycecast.podomatic.com. Thanks, Frank, for helping to make 'Ulysses' seem less daunting. Also, thanks for 'The Amethysts' and 'Pearl', which I list among my favorite novels.

[margaret simpson]

This is a wonderful idea and am looking forward to hearing your ideas for many months to come.Thank you for allowing us to hear this.

[Croft Lane]

My Book Group has chosen Ulysses as its summer read. I am so grateful for this podcast. It is really helpful. I look forward to it every week. Your voice is great as well.
Thanks for assisting me through the journey.

[Lucia Perry]

I was fortunate to be in Dublin for Bloomsday in 2001. I had prepared for the trip by listening to Dubliners read by various actors while walking each morning in the park.
We stayed near the Joyce Center, and rose early to attend all the festivities. We were excluded from the steak and kidney and Guinness breakfast, but went next to the Irish Writers Center to hear the first chapter, "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan..." We hiked all over town with the groups, some reading and some acting the parts out. The chapter acted near the Joyce Center was bawdy and funny, with night gowned women on iron frame beds. The walks proceeded through the University, a book store, and more, ending in a bar, upstairs, where Ulysses was read from, in Polish. By that time, we were "famished entirely" and repaired to an Italian restaurant to finish the evening. Ulysses is the mix of high and low art, the sacred and profane, the timeless and the ephemeral. I try not to miss Bloomsday. I even won a Joyce trivia contest at one event.....Thanks for this!

[Keith Erickson]

what do I need to do in order to recieve these podcasts? I get nothing but a black screen. thank you.

[Brian Buchbinder]

I love it. I guess you are getting it out in bits.

[Kate Pietschman]

Delightful idea - thank you for your enthusiasm and great readings. You sir are broadening my mind - thank you!

[Andrew Sydlik]

Thank you, Mr. Delaney. I am a writer and think Ulysses is one of those books all writers should read, no matter the genre. I've always been interested in the Bloomsday celebrations here in Pittsburgh, but never went since I hadn't read the book. I finally embarked upon it, and am hoping your podcasts will illumine some of the more obscure allusions. You will help fortify me for Bloomsday 2011--that and some pints of Guinness!

[Kath]

Great stuff. Thanks Mr Delaney. I look at your blogs every day and keep going back to Ulysses with new insights and better understanding. You are a genius, as was Joyce.

[Joan Borden]

Just heard you speak at Steamboat Springs Literary Sojourn. Thank you for mentioning your Podcasts, which I am going to listen to, to learn about Ulysses.

[Martin Margulis]

Oh, this is so frustrating. I love it but at the rate of one chapter a year, Frank won't be getting to Nighttown for 16 years or Molly's monologue for 2 years after that meaning that I need to survive until age 95 to hear it all. Not fair.

Frank - how about skipping ahead? Please?

[Will]

Your podcast was highly recommended and I am looking forward to listening to the episodes. I would like to comment that it took several minutes of searching your site to find this first episode. I suggest you or the person(s) designing your site make these first episodes easier to find. Not everyone is as patient as I am. I would also appreciate a way to download the audio files so I would have the option of listening to them away from my computer.

[Chris]

Great idea - and from all I can say from your infomercial - it'll be a challenge to listen to your readings and comments.

[Trisha]

I am late to the game but trying to catch up. I'm reading Ulysses for the first time, and your podcasts are definitely making the whole experience more clear and more entertaining.

[jim coleman]

Can't get episode 23,24? Is there a reason? I've tried everything.

[Frank's Team]

Jim, try this link if you're having trouble with 23 and 24. I'm not sure what the trouble is, but they come through fine here: http://bit.ly/e9gThM

Ben @ Frank's office

[Richard Abowitz]

Thanks so much for doing this!

[Sharon Hascall]

Can't wait to dig in once again to my favorite book that I've never finished. Thanks to you, I now have hope I'll make it this time. Much gratitude from across the pond; yes a few of us here do read, at least here in Portland, Oregon.

[Paul Arthur]

A year and a day later, I find you. What a wonderful idea and generous enterprise. I look forward to playing catch-up. Happy (belated) Bloomsday.

[Chunji Han]

Three days ago I helped a little bird. Maybe that deed brings me a good luck to read the article on the economist,which guides me here. Thank you very much.