***Read for my Classics Challenge***And my Joyce readings bad luck troubles continue. I just couldn't really connect with anything in this. And I would ramble on what went wrong and where for me, but I just can't. It's all a blur for me. It's terrible, in my defence. I just can't...I'll only be read...
Honestly, I'm not sure I would have gotten through this if it wasn't a school required read. While the themes and overarching ideas are interesting and poignant, the writing style was incredibly difficult for me to sit through, and honestly, sometimes it just felt plain weird. If you're a Joycian, m...
One evening he found himself sitting beside two ladies in the Rotunda. The house, thinly peopled and silent, gave distressing prophecy of failure. The lady who sat next him looked around at the deserted house once or twice and then said: -- What a pity there is such a poor house to-night! It's so ha...
Dubliners is so short, yet so vast. I didn't love every story equally, but I plan to at least write here my thoughts on every one of the stories, but I plan to do so over time, and some maybe I will have to re-read. I read this collection as part of my Ulysses book-club preparation, and it definitel...
Dubliners is not a collection of happily-ever-after tales. None of the wide arrays of characters achieved their ideal fantasies or remotely reach success. Instead, the citizens are oppressed most of the time and they struggle through their lives routinely. At first, I thought Joyce's writing to be f...
There's nothing I can say about this collection of fifteen short stories (or rather, fourteen short stories and one novella) which hasn’t been said thousands of times before. However, I can say that it's been a revelation to discover that Joyce's early work is so accessible. I found these stories - ...
I really love reading about Ireland and reading lit by Irish authors but I can't begin to explain my dislike of short stories. This has been on my shelf a long time, staring at me. Some of the stories were good, "The Dead" for instance. It was longer, though, and is also considered a novella. One of...
I'll be honest and say up front that the edition of Dubliners that I picked up kind of frightened me. A lengthy introduction (nearly 50 pages), which I skipped. (I rarely read intros to classic books I'm reading for the first time, as they tend to explain in detail why the book ends as it does.) And...
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