The Ulysses Guide: Tours Through Joyce's Dublin Book

I was a bit daunted by this book at first, but when I finally sat down to read it it was a breeze. The idea of reading a tour book doesn't appeal to me, but this paraphrases and discusses the events of "Ulysses" in addition to its practical advice for getting around the city, and is loaded with tidbits about Dublin both of Joycean and general interest. Nicholson is extremely in-depth, discussing the city so thoroughly even my dorm gets a mention:

"[Bloom:] turns right onto Brunswick Street, where the wall covered with hoardings has been replaced by a large student accommodation block (connected to the Trinity College campus by its own footbridge across Westland Row)." (p. 70) There's something very cool about reading about the environment you live in, a pleasure I've never had considering this is my first time in a city. So far no one's written a modernist novel about a day in East Longmeadow, Manchester, or Amherst.

Nicholson includes pictures from the National Photo Archives, so you get a good visual of Joyce's Dublin in 1904. As inclusive as it was, I feel Nicholson's holding out, and had much more cool facts to share than he actually did, and I would've preferred a bulkier appendix beyond brief explanation of the journey of the corrected text, a timetable of the characters' movements, and a bibliography.

Overall, worth reading if you have even a peripheral interest in "Ulysses", and is short so why the heck not?