I highly recommend “Ulysses Annotated” to anyone who is reading James Joyce’s novel “Ulysses.” I would encourage you to first read Joyce’s novel without looking at these annotations. If to Gifford's notes you add the Univ of Montana's excellent photo illustrated site, Ulysses will become very alive and make you happy in appreciation of each and every page. With Gifford in hand, puns and characterizations pop. He provides enough political history, Greek and Latin, Roman Catholic and Jewish explications. He is comprehensive in music lyrics with cast, playbill, and venue. He helps with backstory, referring you to characters appearing in The Dubliners, to events from Portrait. Fundamentally, Gifford's notes aggregate in one place and simplify so you can enjoy Ulysses. So the internet, more current, can be valuable as backup, used with discernment. Gifford's work was published in 1988 and from him you may imagine Bloom has a potato as talisman in his pocket (instead of a hole in his pocket). Hippopotami do not wade the Irish coast waves. Knowing that a “costdrawer” is an appraiser, you can speed past internet posted essays on Daedalus family debts. These notes will help you avoid fantasy dead-ends not intended by Joyce. But this novel is an evocation of the very pivotal time in the history of the moving image, between two-dimensional still image and an image that actually moved.' Edison took it and ran with it, and changed it from something mechanical into something chemical. He completely changed the way that humanity sees itself.

This is the guy who invented the moving image. On December 27, 2012, in the 'NYMetro' daily newspaper, Seidman's novel was named the 'Favorite Book of the Year' by Stephen Davis, author of 'Reggae Bloodlines' and 'Reggae International' and, most recently, 'More Room in a Broken Heart: The True Adventures of Carly Simon.' Davis wrote: See Seidman's web site for the recent reviews. His new novel, 'Moments Captured,' has evoked several extremely positive responses. For screenwriting credits, refer to the same site.

To check out his books, reviews and commentary, please visit Robert J. He's written three novels-'One Smart Indian,' 'Bucks County Idyll' and his latest, 'Moments Captured,' published in November 2012 by The Overlook Press.

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