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geowhaley 's review for:
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
My Recommendation: If you like stream of consciousness, random shifts in perspective and timeline, have at it. If those two things are not your cup of tea then pass. I will not be reading James Joyce again in the future no matter how many beautiful passages I stumbled into, there weren't enough to make me want to voluntarily subject myself to this again. I fell asleep trying to read this SO MANY TIMES! And I'm not talking fell asleep in bed, I'm talking on my lunch break at my desk in the office, standing up in line at the post office, and even at one-point walking around the house specifically trying NOT to fall asleep just to get through Chapter 3!
My Response: Ugh—I should've given up while I was ahead, or used the same app I used to slog my way through Ulysses. This was the longest 215 pages of my life.
I actually broke down for the last chapter and found an audiobook version from my local library to listen to at 1.25x speed while sorting data and stuff at work. So, at the very least I can say I enjoyed the Irish accents for that portion of it and the Whaley last name shout out about 75% of the way through :-D
Continue reading on my book blog at geoffwhaley.com.
My Response: Ugh—I should've given up while I was ahead, or used the same app I used to slog my way through Ulysses. This was the longest 215 pages of my life.
I actually broke down for the last chapter and found an audiobook version from my local library to listen to at 1.25x speed while sorting data and stuff at work. So, at the very least I can say I enjoyed the Irish accents for that portion of it and the Whaley last name shout out about 75% of the way through :-D
Continue reading on my book blog at geoffwhaley.com.