Half Day Off Really ISP / myLot

United States

February 12, 2016 9:33am CST

Yesterday morning was fine but later in the day my ISP took about 4 hours off as I was not able to get online so I started to read a book called Dubliners A portrait of the artist as a young man by James Joyce. The fifteen stories were meant to be a naturalistic depiction of the Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The first three stories are narrated by an unnamed boy. The rest of the stories are narrated by an anonymous third person. Short Stories, Genre: Fiction Prose. It is about the prison of routine, the desire for escape and the intersection of life and death.

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celticeagle

@celticeagle (189792)

• Boise, Idaho

12 Feb 16

This book doesn't sound very good. I probably couldn't have waded my way through it.

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marcyaz

@Marcyaz (35316)

• United States

13 Feb 16

@celticeagle I am finding the book very interesting although it may not be for everyone.

Patsie Hatley is Deceased

@Hatley (163772)

• Garden Grove, California

13 Feb 16

he seems bent on looking at life as pessimistically as possilbleand life nis not all like that brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

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celticeagle

@celticeagle (189792)

• Boise, Idaho

13 Feb 16

@Hatley ....Yes, brrrrrr. That's is true.

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fishtiger58

@fishtiger58 (29819)

• Momence, Illinois

12 Feb 16

And then there are people like me who rather enjoy their own little rut

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marcyaz

@Marcyaz (35316)

• United States

13 Feb 16

@fishtiger58 It was nice to get out of my rut.

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Patsie Hatley is Deceased

@Hatley (163772)

• Garden Grove, California

13 Feb 16

I had to read that in college and its time consuming and t o me it was sort of dry but then his viewpoint was in a different country and at a different era it was interesting but not enough to spend weeks on it. I was an adult returned to get my last two years at U of Calf Irvine for a BA in English I was more into the poets.too some hit home as I was middle aged so it was not a loss bo t not something I would have picked out onmy own

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marcyaz

@Marcyaz (35316)

• United States

13 Feb 16

@Hatley I also had to read some of his books in class but never really thought they were that interesting, his views and mine seem to differ but that is what makes the world go round.

Anna

@LadyDuck (502177)

• Italy

12 Feb 16

It is so true that the routine can become a prison and sometimes we are unable to escape.

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marcyaz

@Marcyaz (35316)

• United States

13 Feb 16

@LadyDuck I took the time to start this book that has been just sitting here for quite a long time.

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Patsie Hatley is Deceased

@Hatley (163772)

• Garden Grove, California

13 Feb 16

but really ultimately we c an change his book seems so dark and i always felt upset as I do not look at life as horrible and awful after all look at the alternative

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brendamarie

@whiteream (8567)

• United States

12 Feb 16

sounds like a very interesting book

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marcyaz

@Marcyaz (35316)

• United States

13 Feb 16

@whiteream It is quite interesting but not something you could read if there is a lot of noise.

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@VivaLaDani13 (60812)

• Perth, Australia

12 Mar 16

I'd love to give that book a read. I've had the same routine forever and it's hard to break. Once I started my beauty course, then it will be a bit different and then hopefully when I get a job, then that will be a whole different routine for sure.

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marcyaz

@Marcyaz (35316)

• United States

12 Mar 16

@VivaLaDani13 Once you get a job your routine will change and then you can read a good book or two.

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