Book · 2015 · Fiction
Finnegans Wake
#195 of 16,787 books, ranked by how many different people bring it up on podcasts
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That's one that's one thing i found interesting about finnegan's week i i never fully understood it but the words caused feelings in me which i found fascinating.
Karl Deisseroth · Lex Fridman Podcast · Apr 2022 Listen at 12:56 What they say about it
- Confesses never reading it“i've never read ulysses by james joyce or finnegan's awake”2
- Discusses reading the book“i i even uh i i guess read parts of finnegan's wake”2
The best things said about it
There's a book called Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce it's like arguably the greatest work of literature in the western cannon. It's a wonderful book and a guy called Joseph Campbell studied it for his PhD and he wrote about the myths in inherent in James Joyce's uh Finnegan's wake.
I if someone put a gun to my head and said, "You have to read Finnegan's Wake now." It, you know, I go, "Shoot me.
Finnegans Wake is a book that I've read around a lot. I haven't read Finnegans Wake, but I read about it a lot.
And then finnegan's wake the moment i started finning his wake i said this this is stupid.
Lex Fridman Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2021 Why is finnegan's wake your favorite book well because it's very complex and complicated.
Tyler Cowen Conversations with Tyler · Oct 2020 Where and when it comes up
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How it comes up
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Why people recommend it
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce is an experimental, highly complex work of modern fiction known for its dense, multilingual portmanteau language and cyclical structure. The book was discussed by several guests in relation to literature, writing, and history. Jimmy Carr mentioned on The Joe Rogan Experience that the novel is arguably the greatest work in the Western canon and noted how Joseph Campbell spent years studying its embedded myths. Tom Junod discussed on How I Write and The Daily Stoic how he arranged the books in his writing shed chronologically, with James Joyce's work serving as the deliberate end point. Francine Prose expressed her humorous aversion to reading the notoriously difficult text on How I Write, while Brian Cox noted on People I (Mostly) Admire that Murray Gell-Mann famously derived the term 'quark' from a phrase within Joyce's novel. Robert Macfarlane and Bishop Robert Barron also referenced Joyce on various programs while discussing rhythm and beauty in literature.
Every mention
Lex Fridman so you quote finnegan's wake uh mad props for that james joy's book i took a class on james joyce in college 4
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“so you quote finnegan's wake uh mad props for that james joy's book i took a class on james joyce in college”
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“so you quote finnegan's wake uh mad props for that james joy's book”
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“uh but on finnegan's wake i think maybe correct me if i'm wrong you're using kind of finnegan's wake to give one perspective on what madness is of what's going on in the mind”
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“and then finnegan's wake the moment i started finning his wake i said this this is stupid”
Karl Deisseroth that's one that's one thing i found interesting about finnegan's week i i never fully understood it but the… 3
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“that's one that's one thing i found interesting about finnegan's week i i never fully understood it but the words caused feelings in me which i found fascinating”
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“and of course finnegan's wake is is full of that and then uh we also in schizophrenia where there's what we call”
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“and of course finnegan's wake is is full of that”
Tom Junod It begins it begins with Finnegan's Wake and then the Bible and it ends with so there's two copies of Finne… 2
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“It begins it begins with Finnegan's Wake and then the Bible and it ends with so there's two copies of Finnegan's Wake.”
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“Like the books were going to be in there chronologically. And so it begins with the Bible and ends with Finnegan's Wake, you know.”
Bishop Robert Barron You know, it's true because it corresponds in its intelligibility to an inquiring mind. The mind wants to u… 1
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“You know, it's true because it corresponds in its intelligibility to an inquiring mind. The mind wants to understand that thing. What is that thing? It's beautiful because it's radiant. You know, it uh go back to like James Joyce, the famous scene, you know, in the in the portrait of the artist when he sees the woman he eventually”
Brian Cox And the very famous quote from Finnegan's Wake called three quarks for muster mark or something like that.… 1
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“And the very famous quote from Finnegan's Wake called three quarks for muster mark or something like that. It was because he thought there were three of them at the time and that explained the pattern we saw in the particles we were producing at particle accelerators.”
Francine Prose I if someone put a gun to my head and said, "You have to read Finnegan's Wake now." It, you know, I go, "Sh… 1
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“I if someone put a gun to my head and said, "You have to read Finnegan's Wake now." It, you know, I go, "Shoot me.”
George Mack So I only find this out recently. So Finnegan's Wake is a book that I've read around a lot. I haven't read… 1
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“So I only find this out recently. So Finnegan's Wake is a book that I've read around a lot. I haven't read Finnegan's Wake, but I read about it a lot.”
Jimmy Carr There's a book called Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce it's like arguably the greatest work of literature in… 1
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“There's a book called Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce it's like arguably the greatest work of literature in the western cannon. It's a wonderful book and a guy called Joseph Campbell studied it for his PhD and he wrote about the myths in inherent in James Joyce's uh Finnegan's wake”
Joyce Carol Oates eventually you just have to stop doing it you know but in theory james joyce could still be working on ulys… 1
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“eventually you just have to stop doing it you know but in theory james joyce could still be working on ulysses and finnegan's wake because he was like that he was experimental”
Neil deGrasse Tyson the word Quark comes from James Joyce's Finnegan's wake 1
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“the word Quark comes from James Joyce's Finnegan's wake”
Robert Macfarlane like James Joyce's Ulyses uh or Finnegan's wake deeply rhythmically alert text but in non-fiction I think p… 1
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“like James Joyce's Ulyses uh or Finnegan's wake deeply rhythmically alert text but in non-fiction I think partly because it has this weird name non-fiction”
Russ Roberts and by the way my other confession i've never read ulysses by james joyce or finnegan's awake are you ready… 1
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“and by the way my other confession i've never read ulysses by james joyce or finnegan's awake are you ready ulysses has to be in my top five”
Sheldon Solomon i i even uh i i guess read parts of finnegan's wake no way 1
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“i i even uh i i guess read parts of finnegan's wake no way”
Tyler Cowen why is finnegan's wake your favorite book well because it's very complex and complicated 1
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“why is finnegan's wake your favorite book well because it's very complex and complicated”
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Other mentions (14: passing, ad reads, own books)
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“I had this like idea like I was going to do it chronologically like the books were going to be in there chronologically and so it begins with the Bible and ends with Finnegan's Wake, you know.”
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“The non-linearity of it akin to "Ulysses" or "Finnegans Wake" by James Joyce.”
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“the non-linearity of it akin to "Ulysses" or "Finnegans Wake" by James Joyce.”
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“That is believable though cuz one thing all around Hubard can do is write incredibly long books and never edit them. This is his Finnegan's wake.”
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“The word quark comes from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake!”
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“like there's much there there I don't know what to say about it but it's like I feel it's like Finnegan's wake we're like somewhere trapped in that post is like the secret to The Madness of the United States”
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“also Finnegan's wake man just between us I can tell you're a fellow uh Enthusiast absolutely yeah”
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“also when I was a kid I read a series of mystery books that were themed after Finnegan's wake where like the character's name was Finnegan's wake like z-w-a-k-e weird”
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“it's you know it's like editing james joyce like finnegan's wake or something because it doesn't make any sense”
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“i don't know what to call you but uh there's drafts of finn can squake yeah i actually saw pictures of this from um i think it was on instagram or something”
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“Why don't we just do that now in Media Res podcast? Yeah, we'll make every podcast like Finnegan's Wake where the opening of the podcast is like halfway through a paragraph that the end of the paragraphs or the end of the episode starts.”
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“So you'll hear it. It's like Finnegan's wake. You're going to hear it out of order.”
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“if he chooses Finnegan's wake next that's it might happen”
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“and did he quote from like Finnegan's Wake but do we think John dad was just wasted on st. Patrick's Day and firing off emails to a cast of characters that he's got on his legal team”