For Irish literature, I'd say some Seamus Heaney and some mythology, maybe the Tain.
Saffron: I'll die. Mal: Well, as a courtesy, you might start getting busy on that, 'cause all this chatter ain't doin' me any kindness.
'Trash'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Hil R. - May 26, 2011 1:59:31 pm PDT #14942 of 28288
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
erikaj - May 26, 2011 2:04:24 pm PDT #14943 of 28288
Always Anti-fascist!
Sorry, JZ, I tried. But for me, it's still a hideous doorstop. Although it's probably not good for my sanity to argue with a dead guy about Darwin.
Connie Neil - May 26, 2011 2:20:42 pm PDT #14944 of 28288
brillig
I was reading "The Odyssey" on the bus and snickering regularly, and I glanced up to see half the bus riders staring at me in consternation and dismay.
A couple of week's later I was intently studying "Calculus for Beginners," and was likewise being stared at. I kind of miss the bus.
Ginger - May 26, 2011 2:28:21 pm PDT #14945 of 28288
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Moby Dick is very funny indeed.
You don't like Synge, flea? Not Playboy of the Western World or The Aran Islands?
Lady Gregory's retellings of Irish myths are interesting.
javachik - May 26, 2011 3:20:09 pm PDT #14946 of 28288
Our wings are not tired.
Flea, all the Oscar Wilde stuff should amuse you.
Laga - May 26, 2011 3:21:47 pm PDT #14947 of 28288
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Pity my love could not withstand the endless "non-fiction" chapters in which we learn that whales are fish, and so forth.
I love that part! People will tell you they're mammals, but I've seen a lot of mammals and these are fish. You can tell by the fins.
hippocampus - May 26, 2011 3:23:35 pm PDT #14948 of 28288
not your mom's socks.
Seconding Wilde and Heaney. Listen to some Yeats if you can find it. And some of the myths.
Hayden - May 26, 2011 5:06:56 pm PDT #14949 of 28288
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Oh, I'll definitely double-down about how funny Moby-Dick is. I live my life by the loose-fish vs. fast-fish rule.
Kat - May 26, 2011 6:10:31 pm PDT #14950 of 28288
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Oh Heaney for sure.
If you want something mildly contemporary and Ireland-related, I loved Leon Uris's Trinity. I read it instead of cramming for finals my first year of college.
Rayne - May 26, 2011 10:07:35 pm PDT #14951 of 28288
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
I just finished A Feast for Crows and now I'm sitting here wondering why it took 6 years to release the next book when it sounds like it was already written 6 years ago. It doesn't exactly fill me with faith that this is a well planned out series.
Ugh, I hate reading unfinished series! (But damn, what an addicting series it is!)