Very bleak and depressing but so readable and honest. I loved it and went on to read ´Tis!
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Very bleak and depressing but so readable and honest. I loved it and went on to read ´Tis!
I'm with you on this one. I read this years ago. My wife had picked it up, got about as far as you did and bailed. I rescued it from her stack and decided to read it because it had a reputation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Buh-RUH-thuh! I kept on going only because I was morbidly curious as to how much worse things could get. Here's a guy who goes BACK to Ireland from America in spite of the even worse economy. A guy that takes his own dead son's coffin and uses it for a table IN A BAR (where he customarily squanders every cent he has) to set his pint on. A guy who finally - thankfully - disappears during the war after leaving for England to find work.
I'll pass on the movie.
I don't know if I want to read about alcoholism at its worst.
Is there such a thing as alcoholism at its best?