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after his truly wonderful book of short stories,
dubliners
, james joyce gave us this novel, bildungsroman, with prose as solid and clear and musical and vivid as any poet writing in English at the time.
Passages and whole scenes are etched in my soul forever.
Then the man character goes on to play a part in Ulysses , but that's another story ...
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Passages and whole scenes are etched in my soul forever.
Then the man character goes on to play a part in Ulysses , but that's another story ...
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Ok, I've had enough of Joyce! This seemed like a much shorter rehashing of Ulysses, without as much of the literary styling and word play that makes Ulysses worth the effort. Joyce's writing is lyrical, but I'm not a fan of stream of consciousness. I'm done!
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Good book, I can see why it's considered a classic. He lost me a bit in the parts in which he's carrying on these academic and philosophical conversations with his classmates at university, only because I'm not familiar at all with the Irish history they were discussing. And the sermon went on for about 17 pages. I didn't skim that, it was good, but wow, that was long. There were parts that blew me away with the beauty of the description. He really gets to the heart of how a particular scene can
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Feb 19, 2009
Kelly Lamb
marked it as to-read
Jun 09, 2009
Lucinda
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Dec 03, 2009
Christi
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