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| Topics | | messages | Last message | | | 50 Book Challenge : lycomayflower's 2008 books | | 98 | lycomayflower, Monday 12:06pm |  |
| 50 Book Challenge : Zero to 150 - 2008 | | 88 | zanix, Monday 2:45am | |
| 50 Book Challenge : 1st year with library thing | | 14 | bigbaddom, Sunday 12:14pm | |
| 888 Challenge : Zero's 888 | | 65 | zanix, Saturday 11:00pm | |
| 888 Challenge : Shinyone's | | 41 | shinyone, Saturday 8:15pm | |
| 50 Book Challenge : 80 in 2008! | | 41 | shinyone, Saturday 11:33am | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : Winesburg, OH and environs | | 11 | laytonwoman3rd, Thursday 3:38pm | |
| Short Stories : All Time Favorite Short Story | | 53 | karenmarie, September 29 | |
| Australian LibraryThingers : Five of your personal favorite Australian novels, please! | | 67 | avaland, September 9 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : What books are you most and least looking forward to reading on the list? | | 21 | jlelliott, September 6 | |
| Awful Lit. : Awful Classics, Part 2: Son of Awful Classics | | 188 | Booksloth, August 16 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : It's a long way to Tipperary... | | 9 | gforce7, August 16 | |
| ReJoyce : Finnegans Wake | | 10 | ateolf, July 23 | |
| Folio Society devotees : Which 'Complete works of ' would you like to see? | | 32 | Django6924, June 29 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : Toughest books to get through | | 111 | 0bazooka0, June 7 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : mcglocklin's 2008 | | 23 | mcglocklin, June 6 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : A gathering place to chat | | 212 | laytonwoman3rd, May 29 | |
| Awful Lit. : I Love You Guys! | | 68 | Kplatypus, May 17 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : What are you reading for March 2008 | | 128 | odysseya, March 31 | |
| Folio Society devotees : Sale! | | 51 | LucasTrask, March 6 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : What are you reading for February 2008 | | 123 | Vonini, March 5 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 9 February 2008 | | 148 | GreyHead, February 17 | |
| Dormant: Poetry Fool : recent poetry purchases | | 28 | LheaJLove, December 2007 | |
| Dormant: Reading Resolutions : Five big books you will read in 2007 | | 95 | RSHabroptilus, December 2007 | |
| Dormant: 1001 Books to read before you die : Books that you dread | | 30 | digifish_books, November 2007 | |
| Dormant: Writer-readers : the exquisite package | | 19 | andyray, November 2007 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : Giving Up on a Book You Don't Like | | 127 | Esta1923, November 2007 | |
| Dormant: ReJoyce : Re-Joyce Message Board | | 50 | keigu, October 2007 | |
| Dormant: Reading Globally : Where in the World Are You Now? September 2007 | | 155 | digifish_books, October 2007 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 22 September 2007 | | 147 | judylou, September 2007 | |
| Dormant: Modernist elusions: madeleines for Sweeney : Characteristics of Modernism | | 18 | mrsradcliffe, September 2007 | |
| Dormant: The City and the Book : Dublin | | 3 | fictionmap, September 2007 | |
| Dormant: Reading Globally : Australian and New Zealand Fiction | | 33 | aarti, September 2007 | |
| Dormant: List Five Books Parlour Game : Cities | | 28 | Polite_Society, June 2007 | |
| Dormant: Esoterica : The Last Five Books Your Read | | 15 | Hera, May 2007 | |
| Dormant: Combiners! : Goethe's Faust- Why won't my copy combine? | | 30 | myshelves, May 2007 | |
| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : Great "CHEATER" Books | | 12 | Concetta, April 2007 | |
| Dormant: What did YOU buy today? : Message Board #3 (Feb. 2007) | | 98 | Shrike58, March 2007 | |
| Dormant: ReJoyce : Young Audience | | 1 | Dydo, October 2006 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : Best 1001 Books Alphabetically | | 161 | hemlokgang, Yesterday 9:36am |
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| 50 Book Challenge : soylentgreen23's list for 2008 | | 42 | soylentgreen23, Yesterday 8:50am |
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| 75 Books Challenge for 2008 : TrishNYC's Attempt at the 75 book Challenge | | 184 | Cariola, Saturday 10:11am |
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| 20-Something LibraryThingers : Books Read in High School English | | 28 | writemeg, September 29 |
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| 1001 Books to read before you die : 1001 Short Stories you must read before you die -- let's have 'em! | | 95 | Booksloth, September 8 |
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| 50 Book Challenge : An expanded gathering place to chat | | 205 | shootingstarr7, August 29 |
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| 50 Book Challenge : KPlatypus: Going for 150 in 2008 | | 97 | Kplatypus, August 25 |
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| What Are You Reading Now? : Abandoned Books | | 335 | Cariola, August 16 |
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| 1001 Books to read before you die : April 2008: What are you reading from the 1001 list | | 83 | strandbooks, April 28 |
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| Dormant: Myers-Briggs: All Types : Which other types are you most curious about? | | 64 | historydoctor, January 11 |
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| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : Message Board | | 210 | injenyworld27, December 2007 |
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| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What books came into your home today? - OCTOBER 2007 | | 175 | greenery, December 2007 |
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| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 9 Dec 2006 | | 103 | margaretplays, January 2007 |
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The Cleveland connection Les Roberts
Berlin Diary William shirer
Dubliners James Joyce
The Magician of Lublin Isaac B. Singer
The cellist of Sarajevo Steven Galloway ... some reason, against using the Romans and Greeks. The all-time worst book I've ever read was in 11th grade Honors English: Dubliners. Ugh.
It wasn't until college that I got to read the more modern stuff--I took a women writers class where we read Bridget Jones's Diary.
And I must ... ... is exactly what you need in order to turn it from a chore to a pleasure. This is exactly what I found with book number 6, Dubliners by James Joyce. Nobody needs me to tell them that Joyce was a wonderful writer, but even if this is his "easiest" read, a little effort is certainly rewarding. ... time I was supposed to read this book and the first time I have. (Shhhh.) I enjoyed it quite a bit. Better even than Dubliners (as a whole, anyway) and much better than Ulysses, which makes me cranky. ... wasted my time unnecessarily on it! (Btw, I found Portrait quite bearable, along with the collection of short stories Dubliners. Less certain about tackling Ulysses.)
The only thing is that I just might find myself at the age of 67 with a hundred or so books that I just have no desire ... 45. Dubliners by James Joyce
A fabulous collection of thematically connected short stories. Why, oh why, did I wait so long to read James Joyce? I probably should have read this one before Portrait of the Artist, because I found it more accessible. These are very well crafted stories that ... Since my last post I finished Dubliners and To Kill a Mockingbird.
Dubliners was great! I don't know why I waited so long to read James Joyce. These are extremely well-constructed short stories that are thematically related. I don't read short stories very much, but this book renewed my ... ... I think science fiction and mysteries (think Sherlock Holmes) are about the best formats for great short stories.
The Dubliners by James Joyce includes some wonderful stories.
Poe and de Maupassant and O. Henry wrote some of the best short fiction too. Oh, and The Call of Cthulhu ... ... one!
The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst
Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir
Saturday by Ian McEwan
Dubliners by James Joyce. The collection was read by seceral Irish actors and writers, including Ciarin Hinds, Stephen Rea, and Frank McCourt.
Kitchen Confidential ... ... is a lifetime of literature there but it was made worse by my making Ulysses my fourth book (after angela's ashes, The Dubliners and a book of Irish Mythology) and I never got any further than that. I didn't get past the library on that attempt at Ulysses and it took most of the second ... ... of asking 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 ... 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 ... ... rather they didn't.
Classics-wise, I'm planning an assault on the works of James Joyce, starting with the easiest (maybe Dubliners) and working up to Finnegan's Wake. Unfortunately, other books keep getting in the way ... 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 Finish list -- right next to Gone With the Wind. I've started ... 17. Dubliners- James Joyce. My first attempt at Joyce. I had heard that this collection of short stories was the most accessable of Joyce's works, so I figured that this was the best place to start. Extremely well written portrayal of the city in which the author grew up in from the ... ... Invisible Man, Death of a Salesman, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Araby, one of the short stories from Joyce's The Dubliners, and Barn Burning by Faulkner. To tell you the truth, I pretty much ended up loving all of them, though I started out certain they would be torturous to ... RE: Message 39
I do like Joyce . . . sometimes. Some of the stories in Dubliners are my favorites ever. The last page or so of "The Dead" is probably in my top five favorite literary passages. I've never been brave enough to try Finnegan's Wake (beyond the few pages the members of ... ... date. Pretty light reading for the most part, but well written like most everything else on this list. I started reading Dubliners by Joyce assuming it was on the list, but I was wrong. Once I finish that I'm going to read The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. I've been looking ... Dubliners is on my TBR pile, and then Ulysses if I can get through it. I've heard that Dubliners is better and less "arrogant" (friend's words not mine) than Ulysses so if you get to the novel first, we'll have to compare.
Enjoying your list and reviews, thanks! ... fifth French novel of the year. Paul Auster negates any needless duplication among my contemporary authors. James Joyce's Dubliners contributes to my short story reading for the year and both Racine and Schiller make their mark among my years playwrights. The Body Artist (#55) ½
by Don DeLillo
04/04/08
†Dubliners ****
by James Joyce
04/05/08
Ghosts **½
by Paul Auster
04/05/08
Mary Stuart ****
by Friedrich von Schiller
04/06/08 ... ending, so I read it again. While I don't love this book as I love her major works, it's pretty awesome.
and!
48. Dubliners, by James Joyce
Finished! Maybe this will make me sound like a donkey, but I didn't know this was a collection of short stories going in so when the story ... ... a reliable timeline) can help, but I didn't know that when I read it.
As for me, I'm slowly working my way through The Dubliners. It's not that I'm finding it hard or boring- just that I only really feel up to reading one story at a time then letting it sit. ... from my wife on 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 ... ... One Belongs Here More Than You
2. Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones
3. Gustav Flaubert - Three Tales
4. James Joyce - Dubliners
5. Robert Musil - Five Women
6. Sherwood Anderson - Winesburg, Ohio
7. Leo Tolstoy - "The Kreutzer Sonata; Family Happiness"
8. Ryunosuke Akutagawa - Ra ... ... I would be more inclined to mock, which is why I don't comment.
To keep it on topic, I'm still slogging through The Dubliners. Honestly, slogging isn't really the right word, since I do like the book- it's just not exactly a page-turner. I'm finding it easier to read about a story ... ... here I was claiming to be a book snob on someone else's list- this would be one of those guilty pleasures), and technically The Dubliners and The Death and Life of Great American Cities though both are sort of on hold. I may start in on The God Delusion soon too, since I have that from the ... ... intend to go back. Abroad: British Literary Travelling between the Wars has been on hold for a suspiciously long time. The Dubliners and The Death and Life of Great American Cities are both really good but my mind isn't quite focused enough to take them in just now, so they may have to go ... 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... ... So far it's pretty good (better than I expected, given the movie and hype, to be honest). In theory I'm still working on The Dubliners too, though it's been a few days since I picked it up. Oh yeah, and I grabbed The Turn of the Screw, since I started it as an audiobook and was rather ... ... both of these books are, they may go on the backburner until my mind if more composed, and thus able to appreciate them:
The Dubliners by James Joyce
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens (though I would not call ... Still working on Dubliners from last month, and theoretically Pickwick Papers, though I think I'm going to bail on the latter. ... I guess my brain just wasn't in the mood.
On the plus side, however, I did finish Wide Sargasso Sea and just started The Dubliners. My MSOffice crapped out, so I can't use the lovely spreadsheet anymore :( This makes it much more difficult to keep track of which books are where. I had ... 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 ... > 131 & 134 - Glad to see someone who thinks as highly of Dubliners as I do. It is truly in a class by itself.
I recenlty finished William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. Although I think I could read it 100 times and still be baffled by parts of Quentin's section, I now find that Benj ... I'm in the middle of Dubliners by James Joyce, which I'm reading for school but am loving all the same - probably the best forced read I've ever had. ... the Wake! I 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 ... ... want to confront something of the size of Middlesex just yet. That said, I like a challenge!
I've just finished:
4. Dubliners by James Joyce (161p). I don't often read short story collections, but there was a lot to like here in Joyce's study of early-20th century Dublin, and the ... ... Solzhenitsyn
The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
Great Short Stories
Dubliners by James Joyce
I am such a very weak person. ... Goldsmith
3. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
4. The Devils by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
5. Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell
6. Dubliners by James Joyce
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X. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
8 Classics - Rereads
1. Persuasion by Jane Austen
2. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
... ... 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 the time. Was kinda a letdown when ... #28
Dubliners is actually pretty awesome. You don't have to like Joyce or his style to love the characters he creates in the short stories. ... 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 put it behind me. Yesterday I picked up Dubliners by James Joyce as well as Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille.
In the mail I recieved the horror anthology Spellbinding Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
I checked it out from the library when I was about 12 or 13 and loved it... I then ... Picked up Dubliners and Mansfield Park today at the library book sale for $.20 today. Adding to the 1001 books list. ... attempting to read the rest of the book on my own. I might look out one of those reader's guides some time.
We also read The Dubliners: one of my classmates presented the teacher with the ashes of the book in a little bag at the end of term, and I think a lot of us felt the same way.
I ... ... neglected piles are liberally seeded with impressive examples of design ideals over time. I have a 60s? trade paperback of The Dubliners published by Compass Books with this great iconic 2-color print. (See if http://www.librarything.com/i/covers/med/2531801-m.jpg shows it to you.) Not ... ... those of you who have and had a tough time with it, please don’t swear him off entirely! Try his short story collection Dubliners—it’s entirely readable and “The Dead” breaks my heart every time. I am not a short story fan but I could read this one again and again. ... Ever Comes by Anne Tyler.
And am almost finished God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens.
Just started The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen - yet to form an opinion.
Back in Austria with Correction by Thomas Bernhard Hemingway's "A Clean Well-Lighted Place" I read over and over again when I was 18.
Anything from Dubliners, especially "The Snow".
... by Flann O'Brien (set in Dublin, very Irish, but I don't remember it as very Dublinish in the viewing sense).
Dubliners by James Joyce
... book, my downstairs book, my bedtime book, my comic relief, my dinnertable book, my bathroom book, the emergency copy of Dubliners in the glove compartment... not to mention the book I'm currently reading.
But maybe it's because I'm an INFP that I can do that - carry all these characters ... ... and Folk Tales of Ireland by W. B. Yeats
Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America by James Webb
Dubliners by James Joyce
Absolution By Murder (A Mystery of Ancient Ireland) by Peter Tremayne
The Lieutenant of Inishmoreby Martin McDonagh
*Edited ... London:The Novel by Edward Rutherford
Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin
Dubliners by James Joyce
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene #61 I haven't even had the courage to try to tackle Portrait, much less Ulysses, but I did read some of the stories from Dubliners and surprisingly enjoyed them a lot! One day I plan to read them all, but I doubt I'll ever read anything more complicated than that of his. ... me."
I haven't even had the courage to try to tackle Portrait, much less Ulysses, but I did read some of the stories from Dubliners and surprisingly enjoyed them a lot! One day I plan to read them all, but I doubt I'll ever read anything more complicated by him. Sorry if I was unclear. I have two volumes. Goethe's Foust : Part I and Goethe's Faust : Part II *not* one anthology of both volumes.
In my catalog I just look like I'm the only person who owns a copy of "Faust", and that just isn't right. ... Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Yellow Wallpaper Charlottle Perkins Gilman
Two early feminist must reads!
The Dubliners James Joyce
The Dead by James Joyce
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
Also, a lot of classic and/or Canonized (oh how I hate to bring up ... ... of New Zealand, as I suspected, but is well worth a read. Reminded me a lot of my two favourite short story collections: Dubliners and Exile and the Kingdom, but is more shot through with humour than either of these.
On the NZ front, I have bought another Patricia Grace, following my ... ... Baxter's.
Actually, I enjoyed Ulysses, thought A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was slow in spots, and thought Dubliners was uneven. It's been a while since I read any Joyce and when I get Ulysses catalogued here may take it on again. I don't think I'll be re-reading any of ... ...
I can't think of any high-brow literary choices, embarrassingly enough, but my St. Patrick's vote goes to James Joyce's Dubliners. Absolute perfection. ... Dover Thrift Editions
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
Dubliners by James Joyce
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Softback books ($1.50) various
Three Men in a Boat and Thre ... eday6: Cloud Altlas is unusual but worth the effort.
keren7: loved Disgrace and Dubliners ... by J.M Coetzee. I am excited for this book as I am South African and enjoy books set there. I am also reading The Dubliners by James Joyce and I will let you know how that goes ... I'm not talking about Faulkner or Woolf here):
First, I have trouble with Joyce. I didn't mind Ulysses but The Dubliners, etc. were just not happening for me. Second, I really cannot stand Dickens. I have no idea why; apparently he's not a problem for most people to read, ... ... to him throughout The Wasteland.
Although it's received wisdom that WWI was the crucible for modernism, Joyce's Dubliners was written well before that time. Gerard Manley Hopkins' poetry is an obvious precursor of the 'fractured' language of Modernist literature and the layered ... Something vaguely curious about the number of students (especially as young as 9th grade) who chose (and enjoyed!) Dubliners as their "Summer Reading Club" book (2 required, then this piece chosen off of a list as the 3rd required).
There's hope yet! ... recently, I decided to take the risk)
2. The Essential James Joyce which contains a selection of poetry, as well as Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Exiles in full, plus extracts from Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake. Only 25c. Some people may legitimately ... I have copies of Finnegan's Wake, Ulysses, and Dubliners. ... (This book is absolute love)
2.) Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid (This book is the opposite of absolute love)
3.) Dubliners by James Joyce (Joyce is always love)
4.) The Robert Shaw Reader ed. Robert Blocker (collection of things written by Robert Shaw) <3 this book too
5.) T ... ... with the help of the newly reprinted Skeleton Key to Finnigan's Wake by Joseph Campbell. So what do I do? I reread Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man first. And now I'm halfway through a third reading of Ulysses, using the great Ulysses Annotated for help.
On ... ... with the help of the newly reprinted Skeleton Key to Finnigan's Wake by Joseph Campbell. So what do I do? I reread Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man first. And now I'm halfway through a third reading of Ulysses, using the great Ulysses Annotated for help.
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