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A review by futurama1979
Dubliners by James Joyce
4.0
These stories are ordinary, realistic, sometimes without defined beginnings and ends, and yet there wasn't a single one that didn't capture my attention completely. Joyce's prose is so conversational, his dialogue flows so naturally, that it genuinely feels like you're just looking in on someone's life. It's just so beautifully done.
And, of course, "the Dead" is like one of the greatest short fiction pieces I've ever read. There was so much emotion in it in only ~50 pages it's just crazy. I love stories that describe feelings so well that the reader feels them, and when the joy of being together with friends and people you love was described in this story, when Joyce started talking about how when you're with friends you can't stop laughing even over little things, I genuinely started getting happy as well.
While a lot of these stories are sort of on the grimmer side - and not in an overly dark way, just in a realistic look at lower class life way - there's so many little moments of happiness snuck in to balance them out.
And, of course, "the Dead" is like one of the greatest short fiction pieces I've ever read. There was so much emotion in it in only ~50 pages it's just crazy. I love stories that describe feelings so well that the reader feels them, and when the joy of being together with friends and people you love was described in this story, when Joyce started talking about how when you're with friends you can't stop laughing even over little things, I genuinely started getting happy as well.
While a lot of these stories are sort of on the grimmer side - and not in an overly dark way, just in a realistic look at lower class life way - there's so many little moments of happiness snuck in to balance them out.