The Ginger ManJ.P. Donleavy
Read February 2008 Copy borrowed from Ramsey County Public Library, White Bear Lake branch Essay written May 3rd, 2008 I think I was expecting Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas but with alcohol only, and Dublin. It was very confusing the way it switched from first person to third person all the time. Plus there were so many Irish/English expressions and terminologies and politics and history, a lot of this was lot on me. I am and American, and this book was written by an Irishman, from the point of view of an American in Ireland. Perhaps Donleavy felt Americans talk that way, but there's no way in a million years you would ever hear an American say many of the things Sebastian Dangerfield says. Fun though. Rollicking, the way a bender should be. Like Finnegans Wake without so much gibberish. I don't know if I would go out of my way to read more by J.P. Donleavy though. By about a third of the way through this one I didn't care anymore, felt I had seen all I was going to see, but plodded along anyway just because. So I could say I had read it. And now I have. Back To Books |