Significant people's (not celebrities) deaths

Juhniallio · May 17, 2018, 12:24pm

You’re having enough difficulty with picking out living celebs. Keep your beadies off the dead ones you greedy git.

balbec · May 23, 2018, 5:37am

Philip Roth. Writer.

Ashman · May 23, 2018, 5:44am

RIP

thedancingbaby · May 23, 2018, 6:44am

RIP whoever you are

balbec · May 23, 2018, 6:58am

Can’t say fairer than that.

Fitzy · May 23, 2018, 7:00am

Never heard of him

balbec · May 23, 2018, 7:00am

You’re usually the go to man for writers no one’s ever heard about.

Fitzy · May 23, 2018, 7:03am

He was probably too commercial for.my tastes. RIP whoever he was.

myboyblue · May 23, 2018, 7:08am

If it’s not got Koala Lou in it, Or something about dingos robbing incest babies, @Fitzy’s bet.

Special_Olympiakos · May 23, 2018, 7:42am

He was ahead of his time and slated for the sexual nature of his writings back in post war America. I’m surprised anyone hasn’t heard of American Pastoral or Portnoy’s Complaint.

backinatracksuit · May 23, 2018, 7:54am

Portnoy was a pure solid legend, a level of depravity that would put @Sidney’s tampon sucking in the shade

How the absolute fuck could you never have heard of him

Bandage · May 23, 2018, 8:18am

Never heard of this guy. Think it’s a stretch to even include him here, never mind the Celebrity Deaths thread.

Ashman · May 23, 2018, 8:24am

Is the ‘I never heard of him “ thing now another pretend ??

I am a philistine roaster from west limerick and I have heard of and read Philip Roth .

glenshane · May 23, 2018, 8:27am

You get a better class of roaster in West Limerick

anon67715551 · May 23, 2018, 9:10am

Whatever about a better class there is certainly a proliferation of them at least.
I’m getting my coat…

PhattPike · May 23, 2018, 10:02am

I’d read The Human Stain before. I’d give it a:
Meandering, But Daycent Overall/10

I may give Portnoy an auld lash in his honour.

backinatracksuit · May 23, 2018, 3:46pm

Portnoy’s complaint is an outstanding book, a deviant of epic proportions. I still refuse to believe that educated people have never heard Philip Roth’s name, lads who failed the leaving cert needn’t worry about it.

balbec · May 23, 2018, 3:48pm

You hardly think the muldoons on here have read anything apart from the Sunday Indo since they left school?

PhattPike · May 23, 2018, 6:02pm

Too busy pretend-reading Jordan Peterson’s Lobster Theory and PremierView.

dodgy_keeper · May 29, 2018, 7:17am

Cornelia Frances, who played Morag in Home and Away.

RIP.