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Jan. 21st, 2006 at 1:37 PM

EDIT: OH HOLY GODS OF ALL HIPSTERS FORGIVE ME FOR BUYING AN ABRIDGED VERSION OF LE MIS! IT WAS AN ACCIDENT, I SWEAR, I'LL BURN IT AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE!
Total Amount spent: $4.50

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acommonreader

Jan. 21st, 2006 09:41 pm (UTC)

GOOD WORK!

I have that same copy of Ulysses, methinks!

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createdestiny

Jan. 21st, 2006 09:46 pm (UTC)

I haven't read any James Joyce except for "Araby."

A few weeks ago I also picked up Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I'm not sure where I should start. Any suggestions?

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acommonreader

Jan. 21st, 2006 09:59 pm (UTC)

One of my best friends, also an instructor in English at this university, just taught Dubliners and thinks it one of the prettiest collections she knows, close behind Salinger's Nine Stories. I haven't read any of the three completely, but will read Portrait within a class soon.

I would suggest reading Portrait before Ulysses, as the chrnology of the story moves in that direction as well, and treating Dubliners as autonomous, since it as, and reading it either before or after the two.

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