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.
Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.
Lilah ,'Destiny'
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."
Kat - May 26, 2011 6:10:31 pm PDT #14950 of 28769
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Rayne - May 26, 2011 10:07:35 pm PDT #14951 of 28769
"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 28769
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 28769
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 28769
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Roddy Doyle?
Kathy A - May 27, 2011 5:57:27 am PDT #14955 of 28769
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I think that's him.
Jessica - May 27, 2011 5:58:28 am PDT #14956 of 28769
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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.
-t - May 27, 2011 6:13:49 am PDT #14957 of 28769
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The Snapper is the other movie in the trilogy, iirc.
sumi - May 27, 2011 6:29:37 am PDT #14958 of 28769
Art Crawl!!!
George R.R. Marting had alot of book 6 years ago but then he or the publisher decided it should be two books which meant, not just cutting off his writing where he was at but a bunch or rearranging and rewriting and addition of chapters. He talks about the process here - if you're interested.
ETA: I should say that there is information about what POV characters are in ADWD and which ones are not.
erikaj - May 27, 2011 9:08:17 am PDT #14959 of 28769
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
I love Roddy Doyle, though. TB, good point. You know, I tried, with Moby Dick, cause y'all(and David Simon) list it as a favorite. I at least waded in, which is better than the whole looking-at-it-and-deciding it's boring thing I did before. Points for effort?