Book Review
This book is basically about the author: an Irish guy who becomes an alcoholic and then dies. It was written by someone who doubted his own writing abilities. However, it actually got a lot of publicity and stuff and lots of people actually liked it along with several of his other books. There are several fun passages in the book apparently, although the review itself doesn’t really do a good job of transferring any humor and good-book-ness whatsoever because the review is almost too boring to read, but I’m sure what it says about the book being good is true. It gives a lot of background information on the author, and provides the context that he died shortly after publishing this book. There are several summaries about each of the other books that he’s written, and they all have to do with unhappy irish people because he himself was an unhappy irish man. There are many parallels between his characters and himself, such as one character’s inability to distinguish between men and woman that mirrors his inability to distinguish between failure and success. Or so says this reviewer. Personally, I think that’s stretching similarities and parallels just a little bit. But that’s just me. http://www.powells.com/review/2008_04_15
