Roddy Doyle

I saw the commitments movie, it's ok. Didn't make me want to read the book. Never read any doyle. In summary: idk.

Meh tbh. Not much better than brendan ocarroll iirc

The original Barrytown books are fairly good IMO, v light reading, good sense of Dublin. The Commitments should have been about house/techno though.

Paddy Clatke Ha Ha Ha is good too.

Clarke not Clatke

I loved all his books right up to "A star called henry", which gets a bit silly (slipping into brendan o'carroll territory) and it didnt interest me enough to check out the rest of the "last roundup" trilogy. The barrytown trilogy is good though and "the woman who walked into doors" is my favourite of his.

Can he fuck off with this 2 guys at the bar banter? The Prince one is the final straw for me now

ha was the one about tintin and the Brussels bombings not nadir enough for ye?

I tend to not read them tbh

good plan. it only came to my attention due to some minor internet furor

Had an awful accusation thrown at me this week by an ilxor along these lines

haha

a terrible man for the earthy, homespun repartee altogether

(written in jest)

An awful man surely

The barrystown stuff is good despite my post upthread but really I just love Colm meaney and yknow how Irish and 1990 it all was

Je Suis Tintin

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this year just keeps getting worse

it does

remember 2015

yeah. great times.

didnt know how good we had it

we didnt. remember rickman in die hard

yeah. great

great

ah there's darragh, are you well in yourself this morning

yeah

two pints there oleg like a good man

isn't the multiculturalism great

stand by the assertion that colm meaney is owed the credit for everything tbh

for all of doyle. i read all the books aged about 12 and LOVED them, i also read trainspotting around that time and also loved it. i doubt i'd enjoy them as much now. i feel similarly with music i liked back then. makes me think a lot of "all-time great" populist stuff is actually just for 12-year-olds.

meant to have a question mark to ask if your theory was that meaney gets cred for all of doyle?

most of it. say everything after 1992. and for anyone outside of corpo limits

I still reckon "A Star Called Henry" was his jump the shark moment.

Anyone reading “Love?”