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The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary Stewart
The Eloquent Baton by Will Earhart At Swim-Two-Birds it is. Thorold, you're up! >161
It's a long time since I've read any of them, but it sounds like Flann O'Brien. Is it At Swim-Two-Birds? The greatest book of this type is At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien. The only thing I could compare this book to would be the matryoshka -- the russian nesting dolls, those egg-shaped dolls that, when opened, merely reveal another doll just a bit smaller, which in turn discloses another ... I didn't just buy books for myself today! Though I couldn't buy presents at the discount bookshop, where I got:
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf and other plays by Ntozake Shange, cos my drama teacher stole my copy ... ... Clarke, ha-ha-ha by Roddy Doyle (a romp of Dublin by a ten-year old trying to figure out his paents and the world)
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien (set in Dublin, very Irish, but I don't remember it as very Dublinish in the viewing sense).
Dubliners by James Joyce
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
Birdy by William Wharton
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou ... (Panther S.) by Haruki Murakami
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
The Bird Artist by Howard Norman
At Swim-two-birds by Flann O'Brien I'm really struggling through At Swim-Two-Birds - not enjoying it at all. I might pass on it and go back to some more readable Dickens for a while. I have never read Hard Times so I might try that. ... when I was about 16 - I found its 1500 odd pages far easier and infinitely more enjoyable than the 67 endless pages of At Swim-Two-Birds that I've got through so far (it's taken me days). As someone who grew up a postmodernist I do struggle with the modernists. Any tips, anyone? ... which have affected me deeply since then are: The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary (even a great artist can be a jerk), At Swim Two Birds by Flann O'Brien (cynicism and great art are not mutually exclusive), One Hundred Years of Solitude (no touchstone?) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (a ... I can recommend all of these:
A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf
At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O'Brien
Three Day Road, Joseph Boyden
Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot
Five Quarters of the Orange, Joanne Harris
Now That We are Six, A.A.Milne
Seven Types of Ambiguity, Elliot Perlman
Adventur ... Fogies, I do already have At Swim-two-birds, and I agree with you - it is a work of genius. There are so many things to love about it... I'm especially fond of the bits concerning Suibhne Gealt (mad Sweeney). Obviously it's time to go back and re-read it.
Edited to remove embarrassing ... ... and that his method was the absurd injection of the mundane into the sublime. Well, if so, both of you ought to get into At Swim-two-birds. There you will see how a genius does that. The book seems to go slowly at first, but once you catch on to what he's doing and how he does it, you will ... Definitely Tristram Shandy and At Swim-Two-Birds. A book that I found challenging was At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien. I learned about it through the audio tour at the Dublin Writer's Museum. The narrator said something like the following about it: it's a book about someone writing a book about someone writing a book. I admit I got very ... Most truly great writers are funny -
Ulysses
The Trial
Tristram Shandy
At swim two birds
Murphy
Gerald's Party
Mulligan stew
Herzog
see what I mean? Read at swim-two-birds because, well, I kinda had to because it was the one book one city book for Dublin for June/july. I honestly idn't get on that well with it and my bookclub, the dublin (and surrounding counties) bookcrossers didn't get on too well with it either.
I suppose I'm just not ...
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