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[farmerinthecity]

Maurice all day long.

[farmerinthecity]

What I liked about Tangiers is that it is unconventional from the point of view of the standard way the story should have gone yet still says a lot in the path it does take.

[Rocko]

@Fagan_ODowd

Would you ever read a book written by a woman @Rocko

@Rocko

Catching up on lots of old posts here.

I don’t like any Sebastian Barry. Or Joseph O’Connor. I find them twee.

I thought Kala was ok but got worse as it went along.

I thought the Bee Sting was particularly bad. I couldn’t see any merit in it at all. I thought it was full of contradictions and ill thought out passages.

I haven’t enjoyed Donal Ryan.

I’d worry I don’t like contemporary Irish writers except I have loved all of Kevin Barry’s books. Hadn’t even realised he has a new one out.

And I need to read Colin Barrett’s novel because I thought his short stories were excellent.

And Godwin by Joseph O’Neill looks very good. Netherland might be my favourite novel.

That’s a fair point. I should broaden my horizons more.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Rocko

@Fagan_ODowd

Would you ever read a book written by a woman @Rocko

@Rocko

Catching up on lots of old posts here.

I don’t like any Sebastian Barry. Or Joseph O’Connor. I find them twee.

I thought Kala was ok but got worse as it went along.

I thought the Bee Sting was particularly bad. I couldn’t see any merit in it at all. I thought it was full of contradictions and ill thought out passages.

I haven’t enjoyed Donal Ryan.

I’d worry I don’t like contemporary Irish writers except I have loved all of Kevin Barry’s books. Hadn’t even realised he has a new one out.

And I need to read Colin Barrett’s novel because I thought his short stories were excellent.

And Godwin by Joseph O’Neill looks very good. Netherland might be my favourite novel.

That’s a fair point. I should broaden my horizons more.

Yes unleash your feminine side. You won’t regret it.

[TreatyStones]

@farmerinthecity

What I liked about Tangiers is that it is unconventional from the point of view of the standard way the story should have gone yet still says a lot in the path it does take.

I remember thinking at the time that the section that was based in a bar / club in Cork was unreal.

[farmerinthecity]

Was this the piece told from another narrator and mentioning the two lads?

[TreatyStones]

I can’t remember the specifics now. But it was the two lads drinking together in some sort of sheeben / Private club. Someone may have got stabbed.

[farmerinthecity]

That’s the one I was thinking about.

[Kyle]

@glenshane i finished Vodolazkin’s ‘Laurus’ last week, thanks . it was good but the translation felt a bit off in parts. It’s very Dostoyevsky-esque … Tho the type of spirituality that permeates the book is of a much older variety than Dostoyevsky’s existentialism… It’s almost pagan/monastic.

I’m starting into The Wind-up Bird Chronicles by
Murakami Haruki now… A Japanese book based on a lot of random dream like scenarios but is really an examination of choices in life and doing the right thing.

[Corksfinedtboy]

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[Arthur]

Whats the best one to start with? I never read at all anymore but read slanting of the sun on holidays based on your recommendation and enjoyed it. Yer one working as the care assistant

[backinatracksuit]

Start from the start I suppose and track his progression as a writer
There are little kingdoms is first

But any you can get your hands on really

[binkybarnes]

@Rocko

That’s a fair point. I should broaden my horizons more.

Try Clare Keegan. She’s v good

[Rocko]

@binkybarnes

@Rocko

That’s a fair point. I should broaden my horizons more.

Try Clare Keegan. She’s v good

I have been meaning to and shall do.

[Fagan_ODowd]

I am about to start Small Things Like These. I’ll file a report with the forum when I am finished.

[balbec]

@Fagan_ODowd did you ever read Max Hastings book about the Vietnam War? Saw it in a bookshop recently and was tempted.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@balbec

@Fagan_ODowd did you ever read Max Hastings book about the Vietnam War? Saw it in a bookshop recently and was tempted.

Yes it’s brilliant. Have it here in the house and marked as a book I’ll read a second time.

[Batigol]

@binkybarnes

Try Clare Keegan. She’s v good

Or JK Rowling

[Fagan_ODowd]

Finished Long Island there by Colm Toibin. Follow up to Brooklyn. Hadn’t read Brooklyn but Long Island is a nice book.

[backinatracksuit]

Nearly finished it now as well,
I’d say it’s no Brooklyn but it’s very readable