Gunn ,'Just Rewards (2)'
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."
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.
Seconding Wilde and Heaney. Listen to some Yeats if you can find it. And some of the myths.
Oh, I'll definitely double-down about how funny Moby-Dick is. I live my life by the loose-fish vs. fast-fish rule.
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.
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!)
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.
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.
Roddy Doyle?
I think that's him.
The endless non-fiction whale chapters are actually very funny. You have to imagine Ishmael saying everything in such a dry droll way that you're almost, but not quite, certain he is kidding.
Count me as another Catalog of Whales fan.
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 was almost finished 6 years ago. "Almost" being, it seems, an entirely subjective term.