Dubliners

3.5 stars really. I liked this book, which is not really the experience I expected from as divisive a figure as James Joyce. This was my first foray into his œuvre, and I liked it? But didn't love it? It's definitely a solid, fantastically observed collection, and occasionally a story did leave me staring into the distance after finishing it, particularly The Dead and A Painful Case, but it just didn't hit the same as some of his contemporaries have. One day, I'll gird my loins and actually read Ulysses, but until then I'll guard my opinion of Joyce as a very solid writer who wrote horrifying smut to his wife.