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Originally Posted by issybird
Does “mostly” leave room for an exception for Dubliners? Because I take your point, but Dubliners strikes me as accessible. “The Dead” is a masterpiece.
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Dubliners is the most readable, but I didn't finish it. IMO still garbage. Though I only visited Dublin in 1960s & 1970s and lived there in a "Western Britain" suburb in the later 1980s, but my job was in the City Centre.
One of the most over-rated Irish authors.
The more recent Angela's Ashes set in the past annoys me too as I've lived in or near Limerick for nearly 40 years. Being poor anywhere in 1930s (Brooklyn) or 1940s (Limerick) with an alcoholic father from Norn Iron isn't going to be nice. It's a biased voyeuristic book & I can't see the point of it any more than the Dubliners. I'm sceptical too that a lot isn't fictional.
Most of the world is poor and living in unpleasant circumstances.