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midnightbagel 's review for:
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
*4.5*
Well. I finally did it. I read this with my book club and we read this at an extremely slow pace, but it actually made the reading experience great because we would talk in depth for an hour about only 30 pages. I appreciate this book so much, I think I could have given it a 5, but I really just want to save them. Who knows though, once this sits with me I may come back and change this. Joyce guys, he knows what he's doing when he writes, so much so that that's the one reason I'm hesitant of giving it the full 5. Sometimes the writing was just a little too much I think. Sometimes I just felt like Joyce was writing it to feel pretentious. Other times, most of the time, it was fantastic though.
Overall I just think this book did an incredible job documenting the psychological struggle of a growing adolescent boy, and with that, bringing up many interesting discussions, and being quite revolutionary in terms of stream-of-consciousness writing. This was definitely not "easy" to read, but I'm very glad I read it.
Well. I finally did it. I read this with my book club and we read this at an extremely slow pace, but it actually made the reading experience great because we would talk in depth for an hour about only 30 pages. I appreciate this book so much, I think I could have given it a 5, but I really just want to save them. Who knows though, once this sits with me I may come back and change this. Joyce guys, he knows what he's doing when he writes, so much so that that's the one reason I'm hesitant of giving it the full 5. Sometimes the writing was just a little too much I think. Sometimes I just felt like Joyce was writing it to feel pretentious. Other times, most of the time, it was fantastic though.
Overall I just think this book did an incredible job documenting the psychological struggle of a growing adolescent boy, and with that, bringing up many interesting discussions, and being quite revolutionary in terms of stream-of-consciousness writing. This was definitely not "easy" to read, but I'm very glad I read it.