maureenrust 's review for:

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

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I can't rate this book. It is everything all at once --it's brilliant and nonsensical. It's boring, and then interesting. It's both a slow and a fast read ( how is that possible?). It has no plot most of the book, but there is an overall plot that organizes it. By the end of the book, I felt both that I didn't understand it, and, yet, I completely empathized with the main character. So, I will just have to leave this one unrated.