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3.43 AVERAGE
3.43 AVERAGE
There are some books I've started a number of times, tried hard to like, did not finish them only to try again a year later, or a few years later, and reading on and on to the end and finally falling a little bit in love with them. Until a few years ago, the book in this position was Woolf's To the Lighthouse, one I took with me on every holiday, took it back unread until reading it over a few hours one day and absolutely loving it.
This book has been the new To the Lighthouse for the last few years. Decided to pick it up again yesterday morning, could not stop reading. Now it's time to find a new book to struggle with.
This book has been the new To the Lighthouse for the last few years. Decided to pick it up again yesterday morning, could not stop reading. Now it's time to find a new book to struggle with.
Just didn’t love Joyce’s style of writing; including the way the dialogue is separated by hyphens instead of quotation marks, that was — I didn’t enjoy that. But also it is true that there are such constant and many intertextual references and all that, like in Ulysses. I just felt they kind of disrupted the flow of the story.
challenging
dark
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
- Catholic Guilt;
- the ivory beauty of untouchable girls;
- and something something coming-of-age.
I expect to re-read this again someday — or, rather, to read it as it is. I don’t understand what I have experienced.
- the ivory beauty of untouchable girls;
- and something something coming-of-age.
I expect to re-read this again someday — or, rather, to read it as it is. I don’t understand what I have experienced.
this took me FOREVER to read. but something did make me pick it up again after i'd originally intended to abandon it after the first 20 pages. i did think it was interesting but i don't think i could've read it unaccompanied (as in, i just couldn't really understand what was going on half the time without sparknotes summary for each chapter). i'd probably get more out of it if i read it again although im not convinced that i would. maybe in a few years. it's a fairly low star rating because the prose was generally pretty impenetrable for me but i think i did like the book even if it was hard to read
everything I've read by James Joyce has been against my will
DNF at page 112. This book is pure shit. The beginning was good because it was at school but the entire book so far was basically Stephen’s internal thoughts and there’s no discernible storyline so I couldn’t even summarize the part that I read. Not worth it. Not at all.
It was good, I guess. Terribly complex, but I always appreciate that.
☞ 3 stars (liked it)
☞ 3 stars (liked it)