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3.43 AVERAGE
3.43 AVERAGE
"To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life!"
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
"Mother indulgent. Said I have a queer mind and have read too much. Not true. Have read little and understood less. Then she said I would come back to faith because I had a restless mind. This means to leave church by back door of sin and re-enter through the skylight of repentance. Cannot repent. Told her so and asked for sixpence. Got threepence."
finally found the nerve to tackle my first Joyce, looking forward to Ulysses✨
finally found the nerve to tackle my first Joyce, looking forward to Ulysses✨
emotional
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
"We have had too much God in Ireland. Away with God!"
"And he wondered what Father Arnall and Paddy Barrett would have become and what Mr McGlade and Mr Gleeson would have become if they had not become jesuits. It was hard to think what because you would have to think of them in a different way with different coloured coats and trousers and with beards and moustaches and different kinds of hats."
Part 2 of prepping for reading Ulysses. This was almost as boring as Dubliners. Things are not boding well.
--- after second read ---
Wait, I had read this already?
I have no memory of doing so, but I guess it is pretty boring and unmemorable.
I like this paragraph though:
"And he wondered what Father Arnall and Paddy Barrett would have become and what Mr McGlade and Mr Gleeson would have become if they had not become jesuits. It was hard to think what because you would have to think of them in a different way with different coloured coats and trousers and with beards and moustaches and different kinds of hats."
Part 2 of prepping for reading Ulysses. This was almost as boring as Dubliners. Things are not boding well.
--- after second read ---
Wait, I had read this already?
I have no memory of doing so, but I guess it is pretty boring and unmemorable.
I like this paragraph though:
The formula which he wrote obediently on the sheet of paper, the coiling and uncoiling calculations of the professor, the spectrelike symbols of force and velocity fascinated and jaded Stephen’s mind. He had heard some say that the old professor was an atheist freemason. O the grey dull day! It seemed a limbo of painless patient consciousness through which souls of mathematicians might wander, projecting long slender fabrics from plane to plane of ever rarer and paler twilight, radiating swift eddies to the last verges of a universe ever vaster, farther and more impalpable.
I thought it was brilliant. Well written and painted the time and place of Ireland so well it makes you understand what it was like living there in Joyce's time.
I'm sooo tired today that I keep nodding off , I'll think about it more tomorrow and write some thoughts down then but generally I didn't enjoy it, this was a slow and inconvenient bore and I hope Ulysses is far better because believe me, I want to love Joyce. I just detested this 'Bildungsroman'.
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
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes