RE: Book Recommendations?
January 22, 2015 at 1:03 am
(This post was last modified: January 22, 2015 at 1:04 am by SteelCurtain.)
(January 21, 2015 at 2:30 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: Yeah, I read Angela's Ashes and loved it (thanks, Mom, for the great B-Day gift!). Did you read 'Tis? It lacks the impact of its predecessor but was a good read nonetheless.
I've long wanted to travel to Dublin for Bloom's Day to take in the events. Would love to see what, if anything, is left of Dublin from 1904.
The friend that recommended Angela's Ashes walked up to me two days after I started it and laid down 'Tis and said, "For when you're done." The last page of Ashes did it for me. He wrote a third memoir called Teacher Man about his time teaching at Bedford-Stuyvesant Vocational High School as an Irish immigrant with crusty eyes and all the children not giving a fiddler's fart what he told them.
Oh man do I love those books.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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