Two problems with this book. First, the title is misleading since only about 1/5 or the stories (and a couple of essays) deal with what I would call amnesia, the rest could mostly be loosely defined as mind or memory stories, and about 1/10 just don't belong here. They must have been editor favorite...
Going to put this book on hold til I get the German edition so I can read it in my native language. I'm not ashamed to admit that the original one is a little too exhausting for me ^^
Organizing your thoughts and articulating them in a concise and clever fashion is hard so here's me rambling on for a while!First off, this took me...hold on...more than four months to read. 200 pages. Four months. Pathetic. Of course I wasn't reading it throughout the entire four months, I had sort...
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...
Why did I read it? It was recommended to me by the son of an Irish author as essential reading. What's it about? Yes, I'm still trying to figure it out. What did I like? The narration by Jim Norton was fine and the audio was clear. As to the book: A very different style of book from my usu...
This was a satire about the Irish life told by narrator Bonaparte O'Coonassa (what a name!). There are LOTS of references to potatoes, poverty, drunkenness, perpetual rainfall and the Gaelic language issue. It's a very grim book but manages to be quite funny because of the narrator's writing style. ...
Bizarrely good. An aura of strangeness tinged the first few pages, and then it intensified, and then there was a surreal tumble down the rabbit hole into a very curious world. A place where "...the trees were active where they stood." You need to "use your internal imagination". Descriptions and ...
What I like and dislike about the Third Policeman would all be classified as spoilers, I think. I hate that kind of review.It is, at least, interesting and more than simply weird.
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.
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