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3.43 AVERAGE
3.43 AVERAGE
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
challenging
dark
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
lighthearted
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
My introduction to Joyce, as well as "Dubliners", which I am currently reading.
This edition is marvellous, not only because of its cover but also due to the notes it presents (around 1000) along the way, making the read a little bit easier.
There are some outstanding passages (such as the Dollymount Strand one), and this could have been a great book if Joyce did not embrace the mission of being it in his own disruptive way, in his own very hard-to-read way.
The way he portraits his own life and the development of his thinking and his language in parallel with the development of the city of Dublin is brutally honest and very well achieved. The colours and ambiences that emanate from the book are singular (... this gorgeous cover speaks for it), and even if they are not literally present, we can feel them.
This edition is marvellous, not only because of its cover but also due to the notes it presents (around 1000) along the way, making the read a little bit easier.
There are some outstanding passages (such as the Dollymount Strand one), and this could have been a great book if Joyce did not embrace the mission of being it in his own disruptive way, in his own very hard-to-read way.
The way he portraits his own life and the development of his thinking and his language in parallel with the development of the city of Dublin is brutally honest and very well achieved. The colours and ambiences that emanate from the book are singular (... this gorgeous cover speaks for it), and even if they are not literally present, we can feel them.
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
There's a reason this is considered one of the best books in the English language. A thoughtful book dealing with internal life and development. Unusual prose style (even for its time, I believe), and a bit of a slow, heavy read, but worth the effort. I feel that I would really need to re-read it to get the most of it.
Someone tell me what is so good about Joyce's writing because I could not stand it. There was so much monologuing and inner thoughts and I would start daydreaming halfway through a sentence and didn't realize it until I was at the end of the page. Even Sparknotes couldn't make this book interesting. The whole book was just really boring and so much of it just felt so unnecessary. I definitely skimmed through 3/4 of the book because I gave up trying to actually read and understand what was going on. Please let me never have to read anything by Joyce again for a class or anything.
emotional
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced