Thursday 16 June 2011

Bloomsday

Let's face it. If you haven't read James Joyce's ULYSSES by now, you're probably not going to. But what you could do instead on this fine day is check out Adrian McKinty's THE BLOOMSDAY DEAD. It's the book I describe as the "bastard child of Tony Soprano morality and James Joyce literacy". Gotta be good, right?

Right.

4 comments:

Paul D Brazill said...

That's a great book.

seana graham said...

Nice plug, and I agree, but no one's off the hook on Ulysses as far as I'm concerned. Maybe read The Bloomsday Dead first and then read Ulysses so that you can get the references...

Michael Stone said...

Read this last week (about time an' all) and it absolutely rocked. The tension builds and build to a truly satisfying climax.

And yes, I was still talking about the book.

Gerard Brennan said...

Paul - T'is indeed.

Seana - I'll try and get around to it...

Mike - Nothing sorts out tension better than a satisfying climax. Ahem.

gb