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Spring in Fialta

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I'm debating adding this to my reading list for next year. I'm really interested in your thoughts on it. Have you read anything else by Joyce?

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(published as River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West outside of the UK)

I've only read Dubliners which I thought was excellent. I'm only 65 pages in here - although the book itself is at a flat 250 pages - and while very good so far, I struggle to see why it's considered such a masterpiece. It's eclectic and I can appreciate Joyce's experimental streak but I feel it lacks emotional depth so far as well as the intellectual depth Joyce is known for. Still very entertaining, though.
 

GB

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I read The Dubliners and thought it was OK but nothing more. The format annoyed me; I'm hoping a novel may suit me better.

Had to take Motion Studies back to the library so now I'm reading

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Franky

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I am currently reading "All the lights we cannot see". Am about 50% in the book and love it.
 

Thucydides

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I seem to have hit a wall with reading the last 3 weeks or more. Haven't been reading at all. Hoping to change that .

Started this :

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Spring in Fialta

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QUOTE=GB;135657499]I read The Dubliners and thought it was OK but nothing more. The format annoyed me; I'm hoping a novel may suit me better.

Had to take Motion Studies back to the library so now I'm reading

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Joyce truly feels like one of those writers who can dazzle you with his mastery of prose but can't seem to hit you emotionally. Too involved in the technique and trying to push the boundary, it feels. I respect it but it won't make me tear.
 

GB

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That exactly describes my feelings about Nabakovas well, in part, as with The Dubliners. I'm hoping with a longer narrative I'll find something to care about in the book. I'm looking forward to your review :)

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Thucydides

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Hadn't read it since the 9th grade, I think, but I read Ceremony's write up on it in the "last book.." thread that made me want to check it out.

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Spring in Fialta

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Yeah, Ceremony's post is what made me decide to read it once again as well. I've always thought The Great Gatsby was decent but I've never been touched by Fitzgerald the way many people appear to be. Hopefully this reading will help.And Joyce is pretty good but I haven't touched it in the last couple days due to business with my girlfriend. I'm about a third of the way into The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and I feel it's losing a little bit of steam as he's drifted into more conventional writing instead of the experimental, energetic and child-like writing of the beginning.
 

GB

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I've had a copy of The Great Gatsby on my shelf, unread, for 15 years now. Ceremony's write up has pushed it near the top of my to read pile.
Before I get to that I've got 5 books I want to read. First up:

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Thucydides

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I've had a copy of The Great Gatsby on my shelf, unread, for 15 years now. Ceremony's write up has pushed it near the top of my to read pile.
Before I get to that I've got 5 books I want to read. First up:

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How far into this are you? I have it on my ereader .
 

GB

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I've just started it, 10 pages or so. I've got a lot on this week so I may not get it finished until the start of next week.
 

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Pretty good read on 1850s' Virginia.. Evolving legislation, regulation & attitudes toward slavery & manumission. The decline of Virginia's Whig party, gubernatorial campaigning, etc.
 
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