Just finished Joyces Portrait Is it bad to say I honestly thought

yes dubliners is better

portrait is overrated because the people who tend to frequent this board sees something of himself in stephen, and the relatability/feels aspect bumps up their consideration of the book

portrait is joyce's worst book (which, mind you, still places it somewhere in the top ~250 books of all time)

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>>7683309
>better then

Dubliners is shit. You're a pleb. Congrats.

>>7683321
pg-13 board, no edge allowed

>>7683321
>dubliners is shit

wew lad. how embarrassing must it be to be this pleb.

>>7683316
Dubliners was better, yes. Portrait is ultimately a product of extreme self-consciousness in all the worst ways and it shows. Joyce is at his best when he doesn't give a fuck what anyone thinks and just does whatever he wants. Which is why Finnegans Wake is his best book by far.

>>7683316
>>7683319
>>7683321
>>7683324
>>7683325
>>7683334

I guess it is all a matter of opinion, they were both good books I just preferred on over the other.

What should I expect for in Ulysses, I heard it was one of his finest.

>>7683343
Ulysses is a masterpiece. Though brace yourself if you had problems with the stream of consciousness in Portrait because Ulysses uses it a lot too, and often in much more confusing ways.

>>7683371
Guess I'll give Joyce a bit of a break and come back when I get the Ramblings of thought process on fleek.

>>7683309
See >>7683940
come and join the wild ride

>>7683309
>thinks portrait was worse
>>believes himself capable of a reading of Ulysses

see ya kiddo