A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

One of my friends gave me a book by James Joyce for my Birthday. I was reading the Twilight Series at that moment so I save this reading for when I was done with the vampire books.
First, I have to admit it was hard for me to start reading non-fiction after having read tons of pages about fiction. In some way I missed reading about the vampire love and about Bellas life.
So , when my friend gave me this book titled “ a Portrait of the Artist as a young man” , she told me she wanted me to keep writing as I used to do and She hoped this book inspired me and opened new horizons for me. The thing was, the thing is that I never stopped writing. What happens is that I don’t write as much as I used to due to lack of time…
This book is really different to what I had read before. It is an “almost Autobiography” of the author.

There’s almost not dialogue in the book, it is just descriptions of a third person…it keeps changing in the same page. Once You are reading something, that suddenly changes to an imaginative situation and then it goes back to reality. There are points in the novel where You don’t know if what You are reading is actually happening or it is just another thought of the main character. There’s a game of words well managed by the author. The words are complex and so is the structure.

I can’t tell if I like it or not. I can just write it is different form what I read and that may be in the future I will use that style on my writings.

Stylistically, the novel is written as a third-person narrative with minimal dialogue, though towards the very end of the book dialogue-intensive scenes and finally journal entries by Stephen are introduced to mirror his alienation from society. Since the work covers Stephen's life from the time he was a child to his growing independence and ultimate abandoning of Ireland as a young man, the style of the work progresses through each of its five chapters, with the complexity of language gradually increasing. However, throughout the work, language and prose are used to portray indirectly the state of mind of the protagonist, and the subjective impact of the events of his life. Hence the fungible length of some scenes and chapters, where Joyce's intent was to capture the subjective experience through language, rather than to present the actual experience through prose narrative.

What I like about the book is that it describes the process of a kid turning into an artist, the process of how the writer turned into the recognized writer He became. Also it touches the theme of religion; how strong it can be in people’s minds. How for fear of your soul going to hell, you keep yourself from doing certain things that in most cases are not even bad actions….
And now…I’m going to start reading a novel title “ Stone Heart” Fantasy, which I’m madly in love in.