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A review by godotwillseeyounow
The Dead by James Joyce
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
3.0
Although I wasn't bored, I wasn't fully engaged with it either.
I liked the ending pages, there's some beautifully written sentences in there;
And I like to think that Dickens, Joyce and Fitzgerald are all encompassed in this one, even through the barriers of space and time: "Like distant music these words that he had written years before were borne towards him from the past."
And also Thomas' 'Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night': "Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age."
ps: seeing all the rave reviews it feels like I simply don't know how to appreciate it
I liked the ending pages, there's some beautifully written sentences in there;
And I like to think that Dickens, Joyce and Fitzgerald are all encompassed in this one, even through the barriers of space and time: "Like distant music these words that he had written years before were borne towards him from the past."
And also Thomas' 'Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night': "Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age."
ps: seeing all the rave reviews it feels like I simply don't know how to appreciate it