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Dubliners
Registered by zafferoni on 9/7/2003
3 journalers for this copy...
Arguably some of Joyce's best work, Dubliners is a must-read classic collection of short stories.
I am making this a bookray book! PM me to join at any time and I will add you to the list.
Warning: I used this book in school (I have another copy which is why I'm bookraying this one) so it does have some highlighting/notetaking within.
I am making this a bookray book! PM me to join at any time and I will add you to the list.
Warning: I used this book in school (I have another copy which is why I'm bookraying this one) so it does have some highlighting/notetaking within.
I am starting the bookray, sending it out through the mail on Wednesday, September 24. Here is the order:
elizz273
quorcester
kalahari
izinha82
...and then off into the wild blue yonder :)
elizz273
quorcester
kalahari
izinha82
...and then off into the wild blue yonder :)
just got the book in the mail from zafferoni. will start reading it tomorrow. this is the first James Joyce i'll have read so this should be interesting. And short stories a good place to start, probably.
I wasn't sure what to expect from this book, because i had never read any James Joyce. all i knew was he had written some classic books, that you're "supposed" to read. i'm not sure if i just wasn't in the right frame of mind to enjoy these stories, but i didn't. i didn't even finish the book.
have you ever gone to an antiques store, or an auction, and there's a scrapbook of someone elses' family? you look through the pictures, which may be old and fading, maybe even damaged. you think, there must be some interesting stories that go along with these picture, but too bad i don't know any of these people. you can imagine that it would be nice to know what had happened, but don't really feel engaged.
that's how i felt reading these stories. it may have been the language, or the formal style of writing, where everyone was referred to by their last names. or, again, maybe i wasn't in the right frame of mind and was too distracted to really understand what he was trying to convey. but i felt like each time i began to get involved in what a character was doing, the story ended. a little to quickly. and the stories which were longer, seemed to me filled with irrelevant detail about minor characters, and not enough detail about the major ones. in one story he took a paragraph to explain the history of one character who showed up two thirds of the way through, and had only one line, and no direct interaction with any of the main characters. i didn't understand.
and i kept thinking that there were things missing about the motivations of some of the characters. the people i wanted to know more about i still felt that things were missing. or maybe the information was there, and i just didn't see it.
in the introduction, it was written that all these stories were connecte somehow. perhaps if i had finished the book, i would understand that connection, and maybe more of the irrelevant detail would have made sense, and perhaps more of the motivations of some of the characters would have been made clear.
i enjoy a good short story, and i understand that authors writing them obviously cannot explain as much about background etc as can be done in novels. and in one of the stories, which name i cannot remember at this time, the lack of information worked to make the main character seem universal. but even in that story, just as i was beginning to really feel for the character, (who was trying to decide whether or not to leave Ireland and her father, to take a ship to Brazil, i think, with a man she met) the story ended.
i'm going to try again with Joyce, to see if something longer would make more sense to me, but i just did not enjoy these stories. but i'm sure other people will, and i hope from their comments, i'll understand more of what Joyce was trying to do.
it's now on its way to quorcester. ;-)
have you ever gone to an antiques store, or an auction, and there's a scrapbook of someone elses' family? you look through the pictures, which may be old and fading, maybe even damaged. you think, there must be some interesting stories that go along with these picture, but too bad i don't know any of these people. you can imagine that it would be nice to know what had happened, but don't really feel engaged.
that's how i felt reading these stories. it may have been the language, or the formal style of writing, where everyone was referred to by their last names. or, again, maybe i wasn't in the right frame of mind and was too distracted to really understand what he was trying to convey. but i felt like each time i began to get involved in what a character was doing, the story ended. a little to quickly. and the stories which were longer, seemed to me filled with irrelevant detail about minor characters, and not enough detail about the major ones. in one story he took a paragraph to explain the history of one character who showed up two thirds of the way through, and had only one line, and no direct interaction with any of the main characters. i didn't understand.
and i kept thinking that there were things missing about the motivations of some of the characters. the people i wanted to know more about i still felt that things were missing. or maybe the information was there, and i just didn't see it.
in the introduction, it was written that all these stories were connecte somehow. perhaps if i had finished the book, i would understand that connection, and maybe more of the irrelevant detail would have made sense, and perhaps more of the motivations of some of the characters would have been made clear.
i enjoy a good short story, and i understand that authors writing them obviously cannot explain as much about background etc as can be done in novels. and in one of the stories, which name i cannot remember at this time, the lack of information worked to make the main character seem universal. but even in that story, just as i was beginning to really feel for the character, (who was trying to decide whether or not to leave Ireland and her father, to take a ship to Brazil, i think, with a man she met) the story ended.
i'm going to try again with Joyce, to see if something longer would make more sense to me, but i just did not enjoy these stories. but i'm sure other people will, and i hope from their comments, i'll understand more of what Joyce was trying to do.
it's now on its way to quorcester. ;-)
This came in the mail today. I read A Portrait... by Joyce many years ago, so I'm looking forward to reading yet another one of his works.
I have a couple of books ahead of this one that need to be read, but I promise to get to it and through it asap! :-)
I have a couple of books ahead of this one that need to be read, but I promise to get to it and through it asap! :-)
