Dalkey Archive Press reads discussion

Hello everyone,

In the future, I'd rather do a poll to determine which recent Dalkey book everyone would like to discuss. Don't get me wrong, my book decision-making skills are top notch, but this is a democracy. But for this first month, my decision reigns: THE SHORT FICTION OF FLANN O'BRIEN.

Sunday, the first of December? See you then!

I read this recently, so will be overthrowing the democracy and re-reading The Third Policeman in December. The new pieces from the Irish in here were excellent (even if sadly Slattery's Sago Saga is still dreadful).

MJ wrote: "I read this recently, so will be overthrowing the democracy and re-reading The Third Policeman in December. The new pieces from the Irish in here were excellent (even if sadly Slattery's Sago Saga ..."

I like this idea, so I will be appropriating it for The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story About the Hard Life or At Swim-Two-Birds pursuits, depending on how the cards fall.

fucking knopf raised it and everybodyelse folded (just in case you need an all-in-one for dec 1st.) The Complete Novels
um...mj, are you talking about "at war" ? At War

Tuck wrote: "um...mj, talking about "at war"? [book:At War|8..."

Eh? No. That's Cruiskeen Lawn material about the war. Sometimes you baffle me, Tuckshop.

MJ wrote: "I read this recently, so will be overthrowing the democracy and re-reading The Third Policeman in December. The new pieces from the Irish in here were excellent (even if sadly Slattery's Sago Saga ..."

I for one, as a good Citizen, will do as directed, and direct myself towards the shorts - I have read At Swim and The Great and Beautiful Love between a Man and his Bicycle already, and know nowt of his littler pieces, so will ask for it in my Hanukkah present list...

MJ wrote: "I read this recently, so will be overthrowing the democracy and re-reading The Third Policeman in December. The new pieces from the Irish in here were excellent (even if sadly Slattery's Sago Saga ..."

Will you think I'm an disreputable human being if I say that I didn't think Sago was completely awful?

Began this collection yesterday. I'm new to the author's work, so I appreciated the intro and notes about the texts. More later...

The stories in the "translated from the Irish" section were funny, but somewhat culture-specific and era-specific. Without knowing the history of that time, as well as a fair amount of Irish/English history, a lot of the jokes and references were lost on me. I'm sure they were very funny in 1930's Dublin though.

'Scenes in a Novel' is quite funny. I find I'm imaging various novels I've read going through this kind of revolt by the characters. Very amusing!