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[create_destiny]

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

Comments

[acommonreader.livejournal.com]

GOOD WORK!

I have that same copy of Ulysses, methinks!

[createdestiny.livejournal.com]

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?

[acommonreader.livejournal.com]

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.

[andeepants.livejournal.com]

Whitenoise is such a great book...same with Ulysses. Way to get a bang for your buck!

[korolyeva525.livejournal.com]

I kinda squealed with envy...

[ygolonac.livejournal.com]

That Mark Salzman book is now mine. Give it over.

[dietcokehed.livejournal.com]

Damn Skippy! I need to stop forgetting about those Saturday sales....

[substitute.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's a hell of a lot of good lit for less than five bucks. You're occupied for a WHILE now!

[derekfz.livejournal.com]

I was trying to come up with some crappy joke about that book being UL listed, but...

[mananath.livejournal.com]

ohh... go for the unabridged Les Mis!

[createdestiny.livejournal.com]

Oh crap! You're right! I didn't even think about that when I bought it.

[lcurtis.livejournal.com]

Good catch. Don Delillo's "White Noise" is one of my top 50 novels, of the twentieth century.