This was indeed the most enteraining experience of the year. If you ever had a dream where everybody you ever met and everything you ever experienced got linked together, along with all the coincidences that ever happened in your life and you had the task of putting them all into one story, it just might turn out like Finnegans Wake. There is singing, there is prose, and there is poetry there is a rhythm in a lot of the book that the narrators bring out nicely.
I think of Finnegans Wake as a story being dictated from a dream, complete with all you would expect from a dream a stream of consciousness tale linking word and thought associations with double and tripple entendres. They bring to life what, at first reading, appears to be gibberish. Instead of reading it, try experiencing it through the voices of Barry McGovern and Marcella Riordan. You will hear that Finnegans Wake is a difficult read, if not impossible. The most entertaining experience of the year. For those up for the challenge of tackling this novel, a lifetime of pleasures awaits you! You won’t understand everything in the novel at first, but the more you allow its voice to sink in, the more like music the words will become. James Joyce scholars have recommended reading the novel aloud to help guide the reader but this audiobook does all of that for you in the most extraordinary way. I have been searching most of my adult life for recordings of the book to listen to again and again and am just thrilled this audiobook is now available to the public on Bloomsday. Pronouncing the words and keeping their flow requires a lot of talent, and I’m so thankful both narrators excel with flying colors.
The narrators seem very tuned in to the novel’s uniquely Irish voice, and the pace of their narration is perfect, not too fast but enough to keep the listener engaged. This audiobook is a miracle in that it effectively provides keys to unlocking many of the novel’s treasure chests through a very careful and passionate reading by Barry McGovern and Marcella Riordan.
One can spend the rest of his or her life reading and rereading the book and even then, there will be many secrets that will remain hidden for future readers to find. However, a deeper reading reveals thousands of different stories and layers being told at once, rewarding the reader again and again in a process of exciting discovery. On the surface the sentences may appear to be gibberish since each word contains multiple meanings and is constructed like the nucleus of an atom. It demands so much from the reader but offers plenty of rewards, surprises, and even intense euphoric moments that all justify the effort. Finnegans Wake is probably one of the most unconventional works of literature ever written.
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