At Swim-Two-Birds
by:
Flann O'Brien (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780670002115 (0670002119)
Publish date: August 15th 1967
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Novels,
Humor,
Comedy,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Irish Literature,
Ireland
3.5 stars Postponing review until later today
Opening: having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant preoccupied expression.Grazie, Hayes! I roared with laughter at the 'ickle red vespa magnet - and ho...
One of the oddest books I ever tried to read. There is a lot of drinking and pookas and Irish humor that I did not quite get. Before reading this book you should attempt to walk the length of Ireland with a buffalo hidden on your person and only then will you be prepared.
Not really my kind of read but not a bad read.