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.
You do well to flee, townspeople! I will pillage your lands and dwellings! I will burn your crops and make merry sport with your more attractive daughters! Ha ha ha! Mark my words! Ooh! Ale! I smell delicious ale!
Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'
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."
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
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!)
Toddson - May 27, 2011 5:18:01 am PDT #14952 of 28288
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Although it's probably not good for my sanity to argue with a dead guy about Darwin.
You prefer arguing with live people about Darwin? at least Melville won't answer back.
Kathy A - May 27, 2011 5:49:26 am PDT #14953 of 28288
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Irish writers -- what's the name of the guy who wrote The Commitments? He wrote a trilogy of books about the same family, starting with that one and including The Van and another book, all of them made into films with Colin Meany.
Jesse - May 27, 2011 5:53:22 am PDT #14954 of 28288
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Roddy Doyle?