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... January 08, finishing January 09.
Books read so far:
1. Atonement by Ian McEwan
2. Oleanna by David Mamet
3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
4. The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld
5. Mercy by Jodi Picoult
6. Before I Die by Jenny Downham
7 ... ... it! I tried twice to finish it, but couldn't, though everyone at work read it and raved about it. I also hated Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I had to read it for a college lit class and had only 5 pages to go to finish, and just thought, "Why bother? I hate this book." Al ... ... of -- and I realize this is probably an exaggeration -- Clockwork Orange, which I highly respect but don't like, meets Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which is/was my favorite of Joyce's (other than a couple of his stories). It felt like the author was trying to be mysterious yet ... >342 I felt the exact same way about A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I wanted it to end and just barely willed myself to finish it. ... l
The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp
The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man. It seems like such a self-serving book. It keeps going on and on about how he was wronged. It barely mentions anyone else. It seems to say, "Poor me, poor me." If he wanted it to be a condemnation of the Catholic church in Ireland I would understand. But ... ...
by Charles Bukowski
07/06/08
The Wings of the Dove (#145) ****
by Henry James
07/07/08
***40,000 Pages***
†A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man *****
by James Joyce
07/07/08
The Last Battle ½
by C.S. Lewis
07/07/08
Emma ****
by Jane Austen
7/10/08 OC: Emma EX: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 36. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce (Finished July 8) 281 pgs
Honestly, I didn't really enjoy this one. I was really looking forward to it, too. I can definitely see how it is such a classic and how important it could be for a young person reading it. Maybe I should ... ... Ivan Ilyich (Leo Tolstoy): The letters in this book look funny and I’m not entirely sure it was written in English.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce): Has more than five words in the title.
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf): Was not written by me.
So, to ... finished portrait of the artist as a young man, my first James Joyce. Not tough going once I got over the intimidation of Reading Joyce I really enjoyed it. Daedalus dwells rather overmuch on Hell in the middle of the book, but the last hundred pages or so (when he really is a young man as ... Well, I finished portrait of the artist as a young man. I'm glad I persevered with it, the last hundred pages were by far the best. probably Crime and Punishment next in my Literature slot yes to The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Anyone read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce? ... uses his talent to take pulp to the next level. Very well written, funny and wrapped up in one neat little package.
24. Portrait of an Artist as a Young man by James Joyce
I now understand why Stephen was a whiney bitch throughout Ulysses. This is definitely aimed at a younger crowd ... 31.) The Critic as Artist, Oscar Wilde ***
I may be the only person who in reading The Critic as Artist feels sorry for Ernest. He never really gets a chance to defend his point of view. I've also realized that about half of the dialogue from Todd Haynes's film Velvet Goldmine ... ... Out in Paris and London by George Orwell ****
4. Night by Elie Wiesel ****
5. Factotum by Charles Bukowski **
6. The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce *****
7.
8.
Extra Credit: Non-Fiction
1. The Gulag Archipelago: Vol. 1 by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ... ... for a book most people haven't read (and may never want to), I'd like to see Finnegans Wake. The FS has done Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses. So I'd like to have a nice, new edition of the Wake to go with the others. I'm with Django and don't necessarily ... I agree that Dubliners isn't too bad, and I enjoyed it when I read it. I read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man for a college class with a good professor, so I had someone explaining it to me as I went - I think that's probably why I didn't have as much trouble with it as I expected. I ... Dubliners is a wonderful set of stories, and not difficult to read. A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man is not difficult but you really need a study guide (or some background info) to understand it properly. As for Ulysses - good luck! And Finnegan's Wake - I don't think I've met anyone ... In highschool we had to read Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and the only thing I remember about it is how torturous it was. At that time I swore off of Joyce forever. Now that I'm getting older, though, I'm thinking of trying one of the others, but I'm not quite to the point of picking ... ... House of Mirth
Kokoro
Works by Robert Frost
Stories by Chekov and Lu Hsun
Zuleika Dobson
Stories by Joyce and Portait of an Artist as a Young Man
Stories by Kafka and The Trial
Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, and To the Lighhouse
Sons and Lovers
Brave New World
The Sound ... ... 1960s, but I didn't know there was a "real" book. Sounds fun. And I love your list as edited. Joyce has to grow on you. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is my favorite, followed by Dubliners; if I were trying it again, I'd bet that Ulysses by Joyce would end right back up on my Can't ... ...
I've already read ten, but some of the ones left on the TBR pile include;
Classics:
Pride and Prejudice
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Maurice
Moby Dick
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Tom Jones
Island of Dr. Moreau
Lord Jim
Around the World in Eighty ... I'm lost on #157 & 167
#156 is A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (That's a self-portrait of Pablo Picasso, as a young man). ... was surprised because I read Red Mars about 9 years ago and hated it.
My least favorite of this set would have to be A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, I guess. I found it to more interesting than enjoyable, if that makes sense. It is an important book in terms of the development ... ... was surprised because I read Red Mars about 9 years ago and hated it.
My least favorite of this set would have to be A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, I guess. I found it to more interesting than enjoyable, if that makes sense. It is an important book in terms of the development ... ... Chevalier
The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (Everyman)
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster (Everyman)
Nine Horses by Billy Collins
Select Stories of V.S. P ... A portrait of the artist of a young man had a big effect on me when I was younger. I read it when i was 14 and I’m Irish so – despite the 100 years between his birth and mine – a lot of the plot resonated with me. It was the first real work of literature I read and before it I never knew ... ... course, a terrible idea. For several years I shunned the man due to that experience, in fact. Recently, however, I read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and now Dubliners and I'm starting to see why people love him so. He's not the kind of writer that will end up on my favorites ... ... the birth of our eponymous son - now I am preparing to enter the fray. Over the years, I've read Ulysees, Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and thoroughly enjoyed them, but have never been able to get beyond the first few pages of Finnegan's Wake. However, a few months ... Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ? 36-and-a-half book: James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I didn't finish it - but I wrestled with it for over halfway so I've included it as a 'half' book. I really wanted to like it - one of my friends raves about it, but I've not been in the frame of mind to appreciate pages ... Well I've read The Dubliners and A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man. But I'm not touching Ulysses or Finnegan's Wake before some extensive further conditioning. I don't want to pull a muscle between my ears... Have been given a book by Tracy Fobes called Portrait of a Man. Are you familar with this author? ... for a time i really need a good read.
i've not yet read Ulysses (for shame) but thats in the long term pile too, a portrait would be another of my big favs.
i have loved the McGahern's ive read, The dark and the barracks. i got a first edition of the pornographer which i'm ... 10. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
For some reason, I expected James Joyce to be either boring or incomprehensible. It was neither.
11. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
This was my 3rd annual reading of North and South, so I think I can safely say that it ... ... on the problems with the novel.)
As for nursing dislikes, I hated both Hawthorne´s The Scarlet Letter and Joyce´s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man when I had to read them for high school. These were both dislikes that I was more than happy to express in the most colorful terms I ... Started to pick up A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, it was really good, and easy enough to understand, but when I plodded on, my mind was aching and I had to retreat into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which was just as demanding for some reason or other.
I got the same problem ... ... Man and the Sea just could not keep my attention. Heart of Darkness and The Scarlett Letter were almost as tedious.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was also not my favorite read, and I can't say I didn't like the book at all because I did to an extent. I think it was just that Step ... Dubliners is a great. Can't say the same for Portrait of the Artist and haven't tried Ulysses. Another collection of short stories of place that doesn't get the attention it deserves is Rudyard Kipling's Plain Tales from the Hills. But maybe that is because Kipling is out of favor ... A Portrait of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce ... used the Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake to help me through and prepared myself by going back and re-reading Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses. Now I can go on "vacation" and read something quick and easy...
In the buginning is the woid, in the muddle is ... I just checked my copy of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and that's not it. ... well-deserved trip to HPB today. For $23, I snagged:
Demian by Herman Hesse
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
Kushiel's Chosen by Jacqueline Carey
The Metamorphosis by ... ... it was fantastic. I bought The Count of Monte Cristo recently to add to the fun (and because Joyce goes on about it in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. And Sijie in Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. The latter being less of a significant classic...)
I have maany maany ... ... the introduction. As a spoiler-hater, I appreciated this greatly (although it feels a little redundant in books like A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which isn't particularly imbued with plot!) Expand upon this thread? How many examples of tedious stereotypes of librarians can you name? I nominate The Music Man and the goody-two-shoes Marian. Ack. Classics - Fiction:
1. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
2. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (completed 1/10/2008)
3. Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott
4. My Antonia by willa Cather (completed 1/21/2008-
5. Silas Marner by George Eliot
6. < ... My list of reads for 2007 are as follows, and these lists with over 100 in them is very intimidating indeed!:
1. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce
2. Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own Isaac Asimov
3. Goodbye, Mr. Chips James Hilton
4. Loving Danielle Steel
5. Asking ... I failed to see any importance to Portrait of the Artist but maybe it was just so complex that my elementary little mind didn't get it. LOL I learned that I don't like modern literature this semester. Murphy by Samuel Beckett, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, and so on - ick! And the rest of my class really enjoyed the reading, so I guess it's just me.
Funny how some of my favorite books/authors ( ... Rarrrhhhh! These are five here I planned to read since 2006, as I know it's late by now, and have since read.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man -- Read Dubliners and Ulysses last year (or year before??), and had meant to read this before that particular year ended, but never found ... ... feelings. I gave it away.
Books that I hated for a class which has convinced me that I simply do not like modernism:
Portrait of the Artist as a young Man - James Joyce
Murphy - Samuel Beckett
The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien
I recognize that some people love these ... The ones that stand out for me right now for this year's reads are:
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
just really complex and too much for me to get settled into.
Loving I've had about enough of Danielle Steel's whiny cry-baby characters that just cannot seem to get it together.
C ... I've only read 2 for the year so I'm stuck!
Animal Farm and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ... Row John Steinbeck
13.The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
14.A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
15.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce
16.Nana Emile Zola
17.The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
18.The Fall of the House of Usher Edg ... ... ronte
Lost Horizon by James Hilton (a particular favorite of mine, but rather politically incorrect for current tastes.)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Can't remember many others. My sons had to read
A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations by Dickens
Hear ... ... Hobbit. I'm not a fantasy fan in the first place so this one is at the bottom of that pile of dreads. I trudged through Portrait of the Artist and am not looking forward to reading any more Joyce either, but I did pick up Dubliners at a book sale of $.10 so I figured I'll read it so I can ... So far I have read:
The Grapes of wrath
To Kill a Mockingbird
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Animal Farm
A Clockwork Orange
A Farewell to Arms
The Scarlet Letter
Beloved
Herzog
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
and Charlotte's Web
in my TBR pile are the ... 20. A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man, by James Joyce
21. One L, by Scott Turow
I started Tristram Shandy but I'm finding it slow going, so I'm breaking it up with shorter reads for the moment. Probably going for Things Fall Apart next.
... stable with The Long Goodbye, by Raymond Chandler. I also picked up Tender is the Night, Tristram Shandy, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Virgin Suicides, Robinson Crusoe, and Hard Times at the library today. I'm planning/hoping to get through all of them ... Zima Blue - Alastair Reynolds
A Portrait of the Artist - Charles Midwinter
Hieronymous Bosch's Apprentice - Rudy Rucker
A whole lot of people were always telling me that every writer or wannabe writer needed to read James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a young man I tried several times & didn't get very far. Then I got the brilliant idea of taking it along when I flew from OH to CA to visit my daughters. I ... I got home yesterday evening to discover Ulysses, which I must confess to being kind of excited about. I enjoyed A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man but it was quite developmental somehow, so I'm interested to see where he ended up going.
On a slightly lighter note, A Wrinkle in Time ... Yeah, 10 years to read Ulysses is a bit much. It took me two months to finish Portrait so that seems a bit exaggerated. Now, War and Peace...maybe. ... The invisible man, The island of dr. moreau and The time machine. I really loved the time machine. I also read The dubliners and ethan frome. I really enjoyed Ethan frome, if you can enjoy that book. I also finished My Antonia which was a good read.
This week, I will ... Oh, I am so in agreement with James Joyce. I read Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and just was baffled by the whole thing. I fear reading anything else by him. A Clockwork Orange is a great book but without that glossary of slang terms, I'd have never made it through that book either. ... Steel now really annoys the crap out of me as with any other sappy romance books. I was totally at a bores end withPortrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I had to force myself to finish that one. I have no desire to read Harry Potter and I also attempted to read The Hobbit to no ... #37 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is not that difficult (and not too long) and I enjoyed it. ... someone suggested to me, I'm looking forward to "1001 Lists I Must Read Before I Die."
By the way, I haven't yet read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man but I was planning on saving it for my 11th decade, or so. ... tho. It's only one person's opinion as to what you SHOULD read before you die. Why oh why should anyone be subjected to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is beyond me. I don't feel any more knowlegable since reading that. ... books I've read so far this year. I don't see me making it to 50 by the end of the year but maybe 25. We shall see.
1. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (**)
2. Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own by various women authors (***)
3. Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilt ... ... Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling
107. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling
108. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
109. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling
110. North-Eastern England during the Wars ... ... be appropriate. As usual with me, I did a tagmash on Dublin, novel -- and came up with:
Ulysses by James Joyce
A portrait of the artist as a young man by James Joyce
Paddy Clarke, ha-ha-ha by Roddy Doyle (a romp of Dublin by a ten-year old trying to figure out his paents ... The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce ... of college (!). So, I've been reading The Life of Elizabeth I and Middlemarch for some time now. I'm also reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce and Russia : a history by Gregory L. Freeze for classes, which slows me down even further. Perhaps some of this is a question of what "foreign" means.
James Joyce's Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man is a foreign work for me, using that term in several ways. It is foreign in that he is an Irish writer, and is writing about an Irish boy, and I am American (albeit with some ... I've been hitting the classics recently: The Thirty Nine Steps, which is a great short read, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which I quite enjoyed but found difficult in places (read: the ridiculously long sermon on hell in the middle!) and I've just finished Dracula, which I really ... ... The brutality of the campaigns is pretty depressing.
After this I plan to read 1491 The Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann though this is not particularly military in focus.
My interest in WWII naval matters has been piqued. I bought an interesting book Somerville's Force H: ... ... the period from 1865 to maybe 1920?
Jessamyn West wrote about rural life in turn-of-the-last-century in California
Manfred Mann Green Earth is about a farmer's wife in the Midwest, early 20th. cent.
Bess Streeter Aldrich wrote several books about farm women in that same time period. Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
Death at the Fenice by Donna Leon
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro I finished A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which I'm trying to make my mind up about: I found it compelling to read but also quite frustrating, maybe because it's really quite a good portrait of a *young* man. And some of the Catholicish stuff made my head hurt. I also polished off Wyrd ... ... I want to go and climb big hills!) and am also sharing in Stephen Dedalus's teenage angst in early 20th century Dublin in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. ... by Jill Churchill
The Vicar's Daughter by E. H. Young
Surviving a Writer's Life by Suzanne Lipsett
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
... finished off The Eyre Affair, which I really enjoyed: fantastic literary escapism!
I'm just testing the water with A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce. I'm not sure I'm in quite the right frame of mind to read it at the moment but I seem to be finding the writing ... |
