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ajkane 's review for:
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
Well thank God that's over. I have such mixed feelings about this book I'm not sure how articulate this review is going to be but I'm willing to give it a go.
The first third of this book is amazing. I truly enjoyed getting to know Stephen as a child and being able to see through his eyes as he tries to come to terms with the world around him. The description of hell presented in the book may be one of the most vivid things I have ever read and then this book got bad, so very very bad. Once Stephen got to university I just didn't care, like at all. The stream of conscious writing is very confusing making it a very difficult book to set down and pick back up again.
All in all, I would recommend this to people if you enjoy Catcher in the Rye kind of angsty rambling (Stephen is so Holden Caulfield without actually being as interesting as Holden Caulfield) or are at all interested in modernism or if you're a fan of Joyce. Other than that I'd maybe give this one a miss.
The first third of this book is amazing. I truly enjoyed getting to know Stephen as a child and being able to see through his eyes as he tries to come to terms with the world around him. The description of hell presented in the book may be one of the most vivid things I have ever read and then this book got bad, so very very bad. Once Stephen got to university I just didn't care, like at all. The stream of conscious writing is very confusing making it a very difficult book to set down and pick back up again.
All in all, I would recommend this to people if you enjoy Catcher in the Rye kind of angsty rambling (Stephen is so Holden Caulfield without actually being as interesting as Holden Caulfield) or are at all interested in modernism or if you're a fan of Joyce. Other than that I'd maybe give this one a miss.