Books

[Eoin McLove]

I read The Third Policeman a good twenty years ago. In my memory it was hilarious and completely nutty. I wonder if it would impact me the same way today. Probably!

I finished Engagement the other day and have to say, I really enjoyed it. I'm now ploughing through Said The Dead by Doireann Ní Ghríofa at the minute, and quite enjoying it. It's strange- the perspectives of the protagonists is ambiguous. Or maybe I'm stupid. But it's oddball and eerie.

[open face surgery]

I read The Third Policeman in Ray K's voice given the absurdity and wording of it reminded me of his madcap videos and stories like The Boiling Gourd etc. Thoroughly enjoyed it anyway.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Haha, maybe I'll try that myself! 

[Pentagrimes]

I read The Third Policeman a good twenty years ago. In my memory it was hilarious and completely nutty. I wonder if it would impact me the same way today. Probably!

Funny you mention that, it's about 30 years since I read it first, started rereading it recently and couldn't get into it at all. Found it annoying actually. I'll pick it up again at some stage.

Lately it's been strictly non fiction for me.
Just finished "The Stranger in the woods" by Michael Finkel, about a guy called Christopher Knight who lived in the wilderness in the US for 25 years.

Just starting Tiffany Francis Baker's "Dark Skies" which is, unsurprisingly, about night.

[leatherface]

Willian Gibson : Neuromancer

Any other sci fi similar to this can people recommend?.

[Eoin McLove]

Just finished a short book - A Short Stay in Hell by Steven Peck. A man dies and discovers he followed the wrong religion so is sent to a Hell modelled on Borge's Library of Babel. He can only escape hell if he finds a book containing the story of his life in a library of (possibly) infinite books.

Breezed through it and really enjoyed it.

Just nabbed this. Looks like it'll be fun.

[Don Gately]

Dubliners by James Joyce. Kinda in between books at the moment so a few stories will do. I have the Ginger Man on the locker next.
There was a pub in Merrion square or beside it we drank in in College with that name actually

[Carnage]

The Ginger Man's great, I think some of it is set around that area, if memory serves.

[mishima]

Willian Gibson : Neuromancer

Any other sci fi similar to this can people recommend?.

Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson

(And I'd also recommend Cryptonomicon and Seveneves if you like his style, even though they're not similar to Neuromancer.)

[Eoin McLove]

Just finished a short book - A Short Stay in Hell by Steven Peck. A man dies and discovers he followed the wrong religion so is sent to a Hell modelled on Borge's Library of Babel. He can only escape hell if he finds a book containing the story of his life in a library of (possibly) infinite books.

Breezed through it and really enjoyed it.

Just nabbed this. Looks like it'll be fun.

Finished this up just now. Mental and very amusing 

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

50 pages into The Third Policeman and have loved every sentence so far. Will be revisiting An Béal Bocht as soon as I'm done, which I've not read since I was 18.

[Dr Rockso]

Just ordered At swim two birds. Haven't read it in probably 20 years at this point but came back into my head recently. Can't wait to read it again

[Thorn]

Finished 'Dead Europe' (Christos Tsiolkas) the other day about a Australian guy of Greek descent who comes back on a photography trip, a lot of nightlife and drugtaking ensues and no small amount of graphic sex. An interesting look at the seedy underbelly of a decaying continent . Must have a look around for the movie of it.

[Eoin McLove]

Finished 'Dead Europe' (Christos Tsiolkas) the other day about a Australian guy of Greek descent who comes back on a photography trip, a lot of nightlife and drugtaking ensues and no small amount of graphic sex. An interesting look at the seedy underbelly of a decaying continent . Must have a look around for the movie of it.

I read it years ago and enjoyed it at the time, but the details are hazy.
Weren't there ghosts hovering in the background? Tsiolkas is an incredible writer- his sex scenes are graphic indeed, and that's just a feature of his writing. They can be challenging  I think I own all of his books at this stage. You should try The Slap, which was the first of his I read, an amazing drama about the fallout among a group of friends after an adult slaps someone else's child who is being a brat. Incredibly told piece of fiction. I have to revisit it because, again, it's been a good decade since I read it. Barracuda is another beaut. I was only thinking the other day he must have a new one on the way as it's been a couple of years since his last one, but whenever I see something new by him in the book shop, I dont bother looking around at anything else, I just grab it. Same with Ian McEwan. Some writers you just don't fuck around with!

[Thorn]

Yeah going to have to get some more of him on the shelves,.that was my first foray. Oh, it was actually a shout by you here that put me on to Mc Ewan years ago, must have most of his at this stage. Have you seen the movie of 'Dead Europe' at all?