by Roddy Doyle
"Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha is an appropriate title for this book. This stream of consciousness narrative puts you into the mind of a ten-year old where at one moment you can be communicating one thing and at a drop of a hat you can become fixated on another. The author channels his inner child, complete...
Rating: An irritable 3* of fiveUgh.Books written in the voice of a child had best use that technique for a reason...the child's perspective becomes wearing unless there is some very, very compelling narrative reason to make us follow a kid around without wanting to scream blue murder after a while.I...
At first Paddy Clarke may look like a tough son of Barrytown, with a sharpened slangish tongue, a small gang of his own and a cigarette to cough on, but he is also a sensitive one. And yet, Paddy's most satisfying hobbies are tyrannizing his little brother as well as burning fires with his friends o...
Read for book club in 2000, not really my genre of book..
I don't know why but it didn't excite me and I didn't find it interesting. It comes across as a "boy book," and not because it's about a boy.
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