A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Rating: ★★★

Method of Reading: Personally owned paperback novel, 276 pages
Dates of Reading: September 9, 2010-October 27, 2010
Author: James Joyce
Publication Year: 1916
Recommended To: OCD English nuts
Quotes:
Movie: Yep 1977.... That would be a snoozer.

Wikipedia Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Portrait_of_the_Artist_as_a_Young_Man
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My View: The way that critics rave over it is understandable, and it is truly brilliant. It simply doesn't hold a whole ton of interest FOR ME. Beware that this book is written in extremely old, Irish-dialect-y language and can be hard to understand, especially thanks to the lack of quotation marks. Old writer, old story, old-fashioned. I'm all for retro and vintage or whatever, but this can be snooze-inducing.

Always,
Your Bibliomaniac

Bibliographic info:
Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. New York: Viking, 1964. Print.