Would you rather read The Obamanation's posting history or "Finnegans Wake"?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Finnegans Wake might be the single worst book of all time. Nothing but unintelligible gibberish. Yes I'd take even The Obamanation's posting history instead.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

So I guess it looks like I'm the new joke of the Atlas. Must have been that one comment that gave this reputation to me.

Even I have a hard time with my posting history, but I'll pick it if the book is anything like the exert posted in the delgue.

[Flake]

Finnegan's Wake is a book with a continuing plotline, I would be very confused reading Obamanation's posting history with no context, it would be very confusing.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Finnegan's Wake is a book with a continuing plotline, I would be very confused reading Obamanation's posting history with no context, it would be very confusing.

That doesn't change that the Twilight series has more literary value than Finnegans Wake.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Yeah, I'd rather read this:

Why do liberals claim Nixon but not this guy? He's probably to the left of Obama.

At least that makes me laugh, even if for the wrong reasons.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Finnegans Wake might be the single worst book of all time. Nothing but unintelligible gibberish. Yes I'd take even The Obamanation's posting history instead.

What about anything by Ayn Rand?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Finnegans Wake might be the single worst book of all time. Nothing but unintelligible gibberish. Yes I'd take even The Obamanation's posting history instead.

What about anything by Ayn Rand?

Tough call. Rand's crap was also rather dense (see the fact she needs to include a 70 page monologue) in addition to essentially advocating sociopathy.

[patrick1]

Finnegan's Wake is a book with a continuing plotline, I would be very confused reading Obamanation's posting history with no context, it would be very confusing.

That doesn't change that the Twilight series has more literary value than Finnegans Wake.

Hey everyone is entitled to there opinion but I am curious, what 'literature' do you like?

[traininthedistance]

Finnegans Wake has moments of great humor and exquisite wordplay even if the plot is perhaps too hermetic for anyone but the most devoted literature professors to understand.  I would legitimately like to read it someday.

Also, it gave the English language "quark" and at least a few other things I can't remember right now.  So don't hate, appreciate.

It's like, who was the worse musician, Arnold Schoenberg or Alvin & the Chipmunks?  The Chipmunks are obviously objectively worse even if they're easier for everyone to understand.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Finnegan's Wake is a book with a continuing plotline, I would be very confused reading Obamanation's posting history with no context, it would be very confusing.

That doesn't change that the Twilight series has more literary value than Finnegans Wake.

Hey everyone is entitled to there opinion but I am curious, what 'literature' do you like?

Most books I read are "scene", seriously. Things like compilations of zine articles from certain scenes and eras, or journal compilations of the same style, stuff like that. Sometimes it's actually fictionalized though but with the plot sort of being the same, stuff happening in the scene. Or compilations of essays and social commentary from people involved in it.

Otherwise I'm actually bigger on short stories. I've only read like one Stephen King book the whole through (The Gunslinger) but I like all his short story compilations I've read. The last full length novels I read were all the Ingress tie-in novels.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Also, I'm surprised some of my posts aren't in the Goldmine, a lot of times I try to get in but never do. My post in the Nick Cannon thread is certainly funny enough.

[patrick1]

Finnegan's Wake is a book with a continuing plotline, I would be very confused reading Obamanation's posting history with no context, it would be very confusing.

That doesn't change that the Twilight series has more literary value than Finnegans Wake.

Hey everyone is entitled to there opinion but I am curious, what 'literature' do you like?

Most books I read are "scene", seriously. Things like compilations of zine articles from certain scenes and eras, or journal compilations of the same style, stuff like that. Sometimes it's actually fictionalized though but with the plot sort of being the same, stuff happening in the scene. Or compilations of essays and social commentary from people involved in it.

Otherwise I'm actually bigger on short stories. I've only read like one Stephen King book the whole through (The Gunslinger) but I like all his short story compilations I've read.

So you basically lack the attention span to actually read a serious work anyway? Can't say I don't have the same problem these days but I wouldn't exactly take book recommendations from you with that attitude.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Finnegan's Wake is a book with a continuing plotline

Actually that's not true.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Finnegan's Wake is a book with a continuing plotline, I would be very confused reading Obamanation's posting history with no context, it would be very confusing.

That doesn't change that the Twilight series has more literary value than Finnegans Wake.

Hey everyone is entitled to there opinion but I am curious, what 'literature' do you like?

Most books I read are "scene", seriously. Things like compilations of zine articles from certain scenes and eras, or journal compilations of the same style, stuff like that. Sometimes it's actually fictionalized though but with the plot sort of being the same, stuff happening in the scene. Or compilations of essays and social commentary from people involved in it.

Otherwise I'm actually bigger on short stories. I've only read like one Stephen King book the whole through (The Gunslinger) but I like all his short story compilations I've read.

So you basically lack the attention span to actually read a serious work anyway? Can't say I don't have the same problem these days but I wouldn't exactly take book recommendations from you with that attitude.

I don't see how what I mentioned is not "serious", even if it's not War & Peace it's certainly more serious than say Twilight.

Also as explained in my edit I read the Ingress tie-in novels:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Alignment-Ingress-Thomas-Greanias-ebook/dp/B00C4W5NVI
http://www.amazon.com/The-Niantic-Project-Felicia-Hajra-Lee-ebook/dp/B00CTSZQ9Q

[NewYorkExpress]

Also, I'm surprised some of my posts aren't in the Goldmine, a lot of times I try to get in but never do. My post in the Nick Canon thread is certainly funny enough.

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[patrick1]

Finnegan's Wake is a book with a continuing plotline, I would be very confused reading Obamanation's posting history with no context, it would be very confusing.

That doesn't change that the Twilight series has more literary value than Finnegans Wake.

Hey everyone is entitled to there opinion but I am curious, what 'literature' do you like?

Most books I read are "scene", seriously. Things like compilations of zine articles from certain scenes and eras, or journal compilations of the same style, stuff like that. Sometimes it's actually fictionalized though but with the plot sort of being the same, stuff happening in the scene. Or compilations of essays and social commentary from people involved in it.

Otherwise I'm actually bigger on short stories. I've only read like one Stephen King book the whole through (The Gunslinger) but I like all his short story compilations I've read.

So you basically lack the attention span to actually read a serious work anyway? Can't say I don't have the same problem these days but I wouldn't exactly take book recommendations from you with that attitude.

I don't see how what I mentioned is not "serious", even if it's not War & Peace it's certainly more serious than say Twilight.

Also as explained in my edit I read the Ingress tie-in novels:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Alignment-Ingress-Thomas-Greanias-ebook/dp/B00C4W5NVI
http://www.amazon.com/The-Niantic-Project-Felicia-Hajra-Lee-ebook/dp/B00CTSZQ9Q

So what is this A choose your own adventure book for those with a Peter Pan syndrome?
 Whatever floats your boat -seems popcorn fare.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Finnegans Wake has moments of great humor and exquisite wordplay even if the plot is perhaps too hermetic for anyone but the most devoted literature professors to understand.  I would legitimately like to read it someday.

Also, it gave the English language "quark" and at least a few other things I can't remember right now.  So don't hate, appreciate.

It's like, who was the worse musician, Arnold Schoenberg or Alvin & the Chipmunks?  The Chipmunks are obviously objectively worse even if they're easier for everyone to understand.

Come to think of it, you just gave me a good analogy, trying to read Finnegans Wake is an undecipherable to me as most people would find emoviolence music.

Trying to figure out that excerpt I posted is what most people would consider equivalent to hearing this.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

I did a little bit of research on Finnegans Wake.  From my understanding, the author's purpose was to write something that, in essence, mocks the English language.  It was meant to be a big joke.  Joyce spent the last two years of his life correcting the typos he made and died before he was able to complete it, but most editions of the book are published with the typos left intact.  Why?  Because it challenges the reader.  Because it amuses people.

I've never read the book, obviously, and it's not really something that piques my interest, but to call something "the single worst book of all time" without attempting to understand the author's intentions, to me, is just laziness.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Finnegan's Wake is a book with a continuing plotline

Actually that's not true.

As somebody who's attempted to read Finnegans Wake, given up for lack of emotional energy, and would like to start again some day, yes it is. Or at the very least there's a rough consensus on the cast of characters.

[Хahar 🤔]

It's bizarre seeing The Obamanation interact with NewYorkExpress.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Finnegans Wake is a great song by the Dubliners, though.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Finnegan's Wake is a book with a continuing plotline, I would be very confused reading Obamanation's posting history with no context, it would be very confusing.

That doesn't change that the Twilight series has more literary value than Finnegans Wake.

Neither Meyer nor Joyce won the Nobel Prize, so they've got that in common?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Finnegan's Wake is a book with a continuing plotline, I would be very confused reading Obamanation's posting history with no context, it would be very confusing.

That doesn't change that the Twilight series has more literary value than Finnegans Wake.

Neither Meyer nor Joyce won the Nobel Prize, so they've got that in common?

Well one thing Leonardo DiCaprio and me have in common is that neither of us has an Oscar.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Finnegan's Wake is a book with a continuing plotline, I would be very confused reading Obamanation's posting history with no context, it would be very confusing.

That doesn't change that the Twilight series has more literary value than Finnegans Wake.

Neither Meyer nor Joyce won the Nobel Prize, so they've got that in common?

I haven't won a Nobel Prize for my posting history either, so I guess all three of us have that in common.