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    #242
    facehugger99
    Registered Users Posts: 7,216 ✭✭✭facehugger99


    Breakfast of Champions - about halfway through and seriously considering giving up and starting something else.


    What am I missing?



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    #243
    protosByte
    Registered Users Posts: 32 ✭protosByte


    John Banville - way too wordy and his books are boring and depressing

    Julian Barnes, I always finish every book I start, and `Lets talk about death` or whatever it was called, really screwed up my reading cadence. It took me 6 months to get up the stomach to finish it, and it's a tiny book.

    Agree with OP on Beatlebone. I liked other KB books, but couldn't finish this one.

    I also agree that there's a lot of complacent scratching of each others backs with Irish authors. Paul Murray, Colm Toibin and Colum McGann are excellent, but the rest feel lazy and self-indulgent.



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    #244
    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,304 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    Banville is one of the finest writers alive today - his writing may not be to everyone's taste but he is certainly not overrated and is fully deserving of all of the acclaim he has received.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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