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Yes, Ulysses can be used for multiple purses: to challenge your vocabulary, to try your patience, to test your literary know-how, etc. Having had a printed version for many years, I only read some dozens of pages, but I almost listened through one of the several audio versions that I have downloaded and, as can be imagined, once in a while it was very difficult to focus on the streams of endless babbling narration! I don't know how many English literary fans have finished crackling this hard nut, let alone the general reader? Hope to read through the BOOK itself and listen through the other audio versions in the future!
As for Moby Dick, I also listened through it without a prior reading of the printed book and it was an enjoyable experience, even while listening to Melville talking and talking again and again about whale-hunting. Really an extraordinary novel!
Very true, "many words you might not be familiar with can be understood in context". So whether in reading or listening through a book, we don't need to mind too much about some of the unfamiliar words. What's more important is to try to read as fast as possible so that we can follow the streams of narrations or the linguistic, denotative and connotative coherence of the thing being read, with great help from contextual hints. And when you listen to a book, it's easer to do so because the reading speed (aloud) speed will string together all the bits of information for you. Very often the meaning of an unfamiliar word or phrase will become meaningful to you immediately when the sentence is finished. Of course, in listening to books, the voices, clearness, tone colours of the readers will also decide the scale of enjoyment and other things you can get from the listening experience!
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发表于 2016-9-14 16:32:33
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