I started it a few years ago but never finished it. She was a bit of a moan really.
This is brilliant
This line alone:
“The suspicion that fame is the will to defer responsibility to another”
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I plan on doing ulysses later.
Do Solar Bones you’d knock it out in 15 minutes.
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O’Mahonys love to see me rock up, here’s two class looking books, I really enjoy reading Ferriter and it’s a topic I’m not great on,
saves me a trip to the coffee thread also
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Boy on her last week on news talk if I’m not mistaken
A famous Cork publiccan Barry Buttimer ( now deceased afaik)
Was a gunner in a chopper during that conflict)
Only 19/20 and was only stateside a few year’s when he got pulled into it
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Have 7 hours or so in the car over the weekend - lay some audible recommendations on me, peeps.
Dead Wake, about sinking of Lusitania
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Bear Town. About a junior ice hockey team in a small town in Sweden. Very enjoyable
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Say nothing- park radden keeeffe
Something a bit more light hearted
Did ye hear mammy died - - is a grand listen and v funny in parts
That’s v good
Is the civil war one good ?
I’m tipping away at it, it’s not as accessible as Ferriters other books, quite academic so far, though the war hasn’t started yet
Chapter 25 of Trainspotting is powerful. Davey Mitchell seeking revenge on Alan Venters
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I’m approaching the end of this
For me this guy is the best novelist out there at the moment, his last three of Underground Railroad, Nickel Boys and this one here are an extraordinary achievement, this may be the weakest but it’s still a brilliant book
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Rereading it or only getting to it now? Some dark passages in that book.
Davie Mitchel was a great character
Was the best outside the main ones . Three great story lines
- the revenge
- the Iggy Pop concert
- the breakfast & bedsheets scene
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Revisiting though Audible. Welsh manages to capture the absolute misery of these people lives.
The journey of Tommy for example 
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