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    <body><![CDATA[So. <em>Dubliners</em>, hey? Honestly, didn't love it.<br/><br/>Joyce's Dublin is defined by a sense of paralysis. (I'm not making this up; just read any piece of criticism on the subject - it gets repetitive.) Many of the critics like to extend this to talk about the themes of 'gnomon' and 'simony' (don't...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34967086">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brilliant and encyclopedic as James Joyce was -- the artist who, more than any other, hauled the ancient storytellers' calling to distill an entire culture into the 20th Century -- his work in prose began with this subdued, sequenced exercise in urban heartache, and it's the book I choose to celebra...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29118517">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The worst of it is that I know I’ve read this before.  Some of the stories I would have read more than once before too.  So, why is it that so few of them have stayed with me?  <br/><br/>There are other stories I've read in my life that I could nearly recite to you and bits of poetry I quite lit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35833146">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This Was my first introduction to famous James Joyce. I decided I should start with some of his shorter works before tackling Ulysses. I should start by saying that I am definitely in awe of Joyce's genius, his amazing, almost supernatural talent, and that I feel that there is so much an aspiring wr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15407627">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I chose this book to celebrate Banned Book Week this year because I had read one short story from it back in college that made an impression on me.<br/><br/>It took me much longer than the allotted week to finish this short book, (1) because I am a slow reader by nature, and (2) because I annotated ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13896205">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I never finished reading this book of short stories by James Joyce, but reading the first story changed my life.  I read part of this book during the summer before or after my Senior year of high school.  I was amazed by the way Joyce constructed his sentences and described ordinary things.  The lin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3390021">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My displeasure with <em>Dubliners</em>, and my general distaste for James Joyce, is a long-standing fact. I won't waste space here by trash-talking &quot;The Dead&quot; like I usually do. The only story I really like in this collection is &quot;Eveline.&quot;<br/><br/>I know, I'm the worst English major ev...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot; The Dead &quot; is my favorite short story.  Joyce's writting in &quot;The Dubliners&quot; is neutral. He rarely uses hyperbole or emotive language, relying on simplistic language and close detail to create a realistic setting. <br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I started this book on the plane to Dublin and finished it a day after I had arrived. It was an excellent complement to the city itself and a great introduction to the early writing and thinking of Joyce, and definitely an easier task than starting by jumping head-first into Ulysses or Finnegan's Wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10580679">more...</a>]]></body>
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      <review id="1648413">
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    <body><![CDATA[This collection of short stories set in Dublin was written by an immature, youthful Joyce. He is not yet the man who wrote Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake. He's young, and he's seeding the ground with what will make him famous. I actually adore these kinds of novels. The young work of a great master. Sh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1648413">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Genius.  I do not use that word lightly.  Yet <em>Dubliners</em> certainly earns Joyce this title, even if he had never gone on to write <em>Ulysses</em>.  Easily the most accessible of Joyce's works, this short story cycle serves as a &quot;how-to&quot; manual for crafting amazing stories.  All readers of English sh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1460097">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book just wasn't doing it for me. I was about half-way through when I decided to put it down, so am giving it 2.5 stars for what I read. Maybe one day I will come back to it. But, it just isn't representative of the Joyce that I love. You know, the crazy one that writes about dirty things.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I rarely say that &quot;everyone should read this classic&quot; but I'll make an exception for Dubliners, one of the most complex books I've ever read and yet still one of my all-time favorites.  I need to give this a re-read soon.<br/><br/>Joyce is at his best here weaving a story that flows with...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4432099">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've always been curious about <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/338798.Ulysses" title="Ulysses by James Joyce">James Joyce's Ulysses</a> (a.k.a. the greatest novel in the English language) and Finnegan's Wake (a.k.a. the greatest novel in made-up dream language). A beloved math teacher from high school raved about Finnegan, saying he read two lines a night--with a ruler and a Gaeli...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9570516">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While I realize this book is well respected generally, and remains (in addition to Portrait of the Artist) one of Joyce's more accessible works, I still fail to see any great staying power in it, and that is either my particular failing or the specific Irish culture to which I feel Joyce addressed h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/718724">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Before reading this book, I wanted to love Joyce.  <em>Portrait of the Artist</em> kinda worked for me.  <em>Ulysses</em> impressed me, but I never in a million years would have made it through without the guidance of an enthusiastic professor. <br/><br/><em>Dubliners</em> displays just as much genius as <em>Ulysses</em>, I think.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10375853">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ By 1976 I was pretty thoroughly immersed in wading through the Collected Works of C. G. Jung as well as those books which appeared to have been most influential in his thinking.  Joyce, whose daughter Jung analyzed, was repeatedly referenced, usually to his Ulysses.  I had tried that one in high sc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22600228">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although James Joyce lived outside of his native Ireland for most of his life, his work is as Irish as peat smoke. His story collection <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Dubliners" title="Dubliners">Dubliners</a>, published in 1914, consists of fifteen slices of early 20th century life in the city where Joyce was born. Dublin itself is a detailed backdrop, and the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38847482">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I preferred the earlier stories, possibly just because reading about young people is a pleasant thing to connect to. But all of them were fully realized and had moments of joy, of Irish-ness. I don't see any overarching theme being addressed. The characters are all in their own worlds, but it didn't...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72904779">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The only Joyce I've read is Ulysses and I've found I went about it wrong, seeing now that I should go Portrait, Dubliners, Finnegan's, and then the big U. Nevertheless I found these stories absolutely captivating, and not only because I'm head over heels for a Joycean afficiado slash professor eithe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70513619">more...</a>]]></body>
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