#30 The Dubliners by James Joyce

This book by the great James Joyce is a collection of short stories dealing with characters who live in the city of, you guessed it, Dublin. There seems to be connections between some of the stories--some characters have the same names. Yet, after reading these short stories, I felt as though they lack in ways his novels do not. For instance, after reading some of the stories I felt as though there was more to be told; they felt incomplete. I'm not sure if other people have felt the same way about this collection or the individual stories. However, what is nice about this collection is that it is recognizably James Joyce. The stories exhibit his language, his themes, well everything that one would expect. But with that said, I would not recommend this to someone just starting off with Joyce, perhaps The Portrait of the Artist... is a more suitable place to start.