The Third Policeman
by:
Flann O'Brien (author)
Within the boudaries of this novel the reader will find: a murder thriller; a comic satire about an archetypal village police force; a surrealistic vision of eternity; the story of a tender, brief unrequited love affair between a man and his bicycle; and a chilling fable of unending guilt.
Within the boudaries of this novel the reader will find: a murder thriller; a comic satire about an archetypal village police force; a surrealistic vision of eternity; the story of a tender, brief unrequited love affair between a man and his bicycle; and a chilling fable of unending guilt.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780586087497 (0586087494)
ASIN: 586087494
Publish date: 1993
Publisher: Flamingo
Pages no: 207
Edition language: English
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...
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...
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.
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