"Then in New York I Fell Out with a Dragon..."

[psalm_onethirtyone]

Query:

Is there any actual merit at all (literary or otherwise) in James Joyce's Portrait of an Artist?

Discuss.

(we found a nest of baby rabbits to-day while picking up trash along Oriental Road. Baby rabbits, and one slithery garter snake that Maria almost stepped on, whispering over the leaves down the bank.)

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_grayswandir_/]

Er. That wasn't mean to sound mean, by the way -- I didn't realize you were actually reading the novel until I saw your comment back to tomecatti above; I sort of assumed you were just considering reading him, and asking whether you should. *hides* So. Sorry if that came out wrong.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

No, no, it's okay! We're about eighty-seven pages in, and I've been having trouble. But, as I mentioned below, I think that may have something to do with the fact that I'm reading it aloud to my sister.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_grayswandir_/]

o_O Okay, yeah, I would be very daunted by the prospect of reading Joyce out loud. The way he uses language is great for literature, but kind of inscrutable when you try to say it.

God, I wonder if there's an audiobook of Ulysses... it would be completely incomprehensible... o_O

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Daddy is having us do it for school. Dramatic reading.

...Wow. I. No.