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I've read Freedom but can't remember anything about it. I can tell you though that the above book, which I have just finished, was quite boring.
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I'm reading the Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man due to the vague feeling that I "should" read Joyce some time. So far it's funny and enjoyable (and strangely... I'm not good at describing literature, but alive, I think I'm trying to say) and not the chore that I had somehow been lead to believe Joyce might be.
Ugh, I've started Ulysses for a book club thingy.
The only bit I don't like in Portrait is the young childhood section, it doesn't ring true to me. It's great once he becomes a mopey teenager.
mind you
A year later and this is still ongoing, the book club fell apart for ages and is only getting back together now. I had to go reread a whole pile to remember what was going on. Ulysses is hard : (
Better than Purity though. If you can imagine that.Freedom is awful
Is Purity shite?Better than Purity though. If you can imagine that.
Let the Great World Spin was shite
You're a gas man! It was great. A bit Irish American early on, but it picked up.
It's interesting though. Do you think it's Shite shite or shite just not into it? How to separate the two?
Like, there are many books I used to refer to as shite, but I suppose I just disliked them. There are of course many books that are shite shite.
Hmmm, that's a great question.
I wasn't into it anyway but I think it was a bit shite* too. I didn't like his writing, I thought it was a bit poor.
* IMO. Just not my cuppa tea, like. I don't subscribe to any theory of objective artistic/moral values
I finally finished Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. It was great at times but infuriatingly long-winded. I had more than enough of it by the end.I'm making hard work out of Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. I've been reading it for weeks and I'm only on page 123.
Next up: Reds and the Green: Ireland, Russia, and the Communist Internationals, 1919-43 by Emmet O'Connor
€0.00 from my local libraryHow much did it cost you?
Yeah. He switches narrators so you think it's gonna get good but instead it gets less good.Is Purity shite?
16 pages into this and I'm already bored to tears with it. I think I'll skip it and read Invisible Cities by Italo CalvinoNext up: Reds and the Green: Ireland, Russia, and the Communist Internationals, 1919-43 by Emmet O'Connor
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