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Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami | 7 | 41.18% | |
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks | 10 | 58.82% | |
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12-09-2012, 04:27 PM | #16 |
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12-09-2012, 08:55 PM | #18 |
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^It's certainly something. I read it last year. Parts were very fun, parts very irritating. I read Artist this year and I think I'm done with Joyce now.
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12-10-2012, 05:48 AM | #19 |
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Try his short story collection The Dubliners, before you leave him altogether {assuming you haven't already read the collection}.
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12-10-2012, 07:34 AM | #20 |
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It's not that I hate Joyce, but reading him feels like a million monkeys to me. Just throw a lot of words on the page and something amongst them has to be good. I can understand the interest with allegory, metaphor, and allusion being so important to the writing, but so much of it is just so daft boring. It's something to study, not to actually sit and enjoy, unless of course one is an English Literature major. I'm not. That's probably where the disconnect is. I plead guilt of ignorance and will go back to reading cereal boxes.
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The portraits may not be very pleasant but they are beautifully written, accessible and worth exploring {eventually }. |
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12-10-2012, 12:50 PM | #22 |
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I just started reading Year of Wonders last night. Looks like a good read.
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