There's nothing quite like A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Ulysses is great...

There's nothing quite like A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Ulysses is great, but it doesn't got the same feeling of Portait, even with Dedalus present. I enjoyed Portait more than Ulysses. Maybe I like bildungsromans overmuch, although, I usually don't enjoy them as much as I did this novel.

Read Finwake faggot.

I felt the same exact way when I first read Ulysses. Portrait changed my life. But a big reason for that was that Portrait came at the perfect time in my life when I needed something exactly like it. Ulysses was nice on my first reading, god-tier prose, but for whatever reason the timing of Portrait in my life is what made such a deep impression. I returned to Ulysses a year later, and it was even more rewarding than Portrait. But I totally hear you, Portrait is such a beautiful novel. I love James Joyce beyond words, he made me believe in God in a strange way. I'll be reading Finnegans Wake soon.

Portrait is a young man's book. It has more emotional resonnance to us because its written exactly for people at our stage of life and position. Ulysses has more of a universal value though I feel the same way

>Portrait changed my life.
How?

Unfortunately, nobody cares.

why are you here, faggot?

In what order should I read Joyce? Is it Dubliners - Portrait - Ulysses - Finwake? Or is there another, better way?

Certainly Portrait of the Artist is not as challenging as Ulysses. In Portrait Joyce takes Proust's up-close lens and applies it to a child in Dublin. In Ulysses Joyce pushes Proust's entire form in directions the French author would dare go. In Finnegan's Wake we see Joyce throw away Proust's playbook and open that floodgates of post-modern literature.

thats the way. Chronological order. Dubliners is the best entry point, portrait should be read before ulysses regardless of anything and finnegans should be last.