Love

This dialogue-based novel centers on two sixty-ish men, Davy and Joe, who have been friends since their youth in Dublin. The whole story in encapsulated in a pub crawl and unfolds over the conversation the two are having one night while gradually becoming more and more intoxicated: Davy now lives in Leggi tutto

There used to be a TV show in the 1970s in the United States called the Bob Newhart Show, It was very good —Newhart played a clinical psychologist, and with his deadpan style of humor he played his role very well. There were some episodes I remember in which he and his friend, who was played by Tom Leggi tutto

In brief - The good parts are really great - maybe a little longer than I would have liked. Two old friends are chatting in a pub in Dublin. They haven't seen each other for a while and over a few (!!) drinks the conversation is varied. While they were friends in their youth Davy moved to England so Leggi tutto

Several years ago an author I respect told a hilarious story about spending a year in Ireland, writing a novel there, then hiding it away so that it "never would see light of day." His reasoning was that he felt he lacked the mastery of the rhythm of the brogue, so essential to any story based in Ir Leggi tutto

Well this one won’t be for everyone. Basically on the face of it it’s two old mates going on a pub crawl in Dublin, reminiscing about their youth and their lives today. It’s nearly all dialogue rather than narrative and it takes a bit of getting used to. Our two protagonists are Davy and Joe, drinki Leggi tutto

Two Irishmen walked into a pub… That might sound like the beginning of an unfunny joke, but it is actually the premise of Roddy Doyle’s latest novel - “Love”. Davy and Joe were drinking buddies in their youth. They are now close to sixty, and Davy has lived in England for more than three decades. How Leggi tutto