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shazzer's review against another edition
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
3.5
schwarali's review against another edition
4.0
Typical classic - that keeps you thinking about the relevance of title and the storyline until the very end.
wmhenrymorris's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
I'm not someone who thinks everyone needs to read Joyce (especially Ulysses), but if you're going to read one work by him, this is the one.
alexoc4's review against another edition
5.0
Beautiful, haunting, and evocative - a bittersweet lament for fading and the passing of youth. I was tremendously moved by this section.
“But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hypereducated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day. Listening tonight to the names of all those great singers of the past it seemed to me, I must confess, that we were living in a less spacious age. Those days might, without exaggeration, be called spacious days: and if they are gone beyond recall let us hope, at least, that in gatherings such as this we shall still speak of them with pride and affection, still cherish in our hearts the memory of those dead and gone great ones whose fame the world will not willingly let die.”
Perhaps, indeed it is, "Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. "
“But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hypereducated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day. Listening tonight to the names of all those great singers of the past it seemed to me, I must confess, that we were living in a less spacious age. Those days might, without exaggeration, be called spacious days: and if they are gone beyond recall let us hope, at least, that in gatherings such as this we shall still speak of them with pride and affection, still cherish in our hearts the memory of those dead and gone great ones whose fame the world will not willingly let die.”
Perhaps, indeed it is, "Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. "
frakalot's review against another edition
3.0
This one didn't grab my interest at any point. Other reviews claim that the ending was worth wading through the banality of the dinner party, but I've either missed something important or I just don't feel it. The writing is lovely but the story has no appeal for me.
myreadingcorner_'s review against another edition
3.0
I found it beautifully written and very nostalgic. It could have been a 4-star if I wasn't so sick while I was reading. I want to read it again a second time one day (when I'm feeling better) to see if I add some stars to it.
Also, this was my first time reading Joyce's prose and I was surprised in a good way.
Also, this was my first time reading Joyce's prose and I was surprised in a good way.