The Last True Gael dan repost
So far this is very very good. 500 pages in.
Far from perfect but it goes into places that no modern novelist would even touch.
While Sally Rooney is writing romance novels dressed up with references to Trinity to sound clever, this book covers an awful lot.
A lot of "based" ideas in here.
Things this book covers:
Mass immigration, abuse of the elderly, weak men and IVF treatment, AI, broken families and anhedonia, erosion of democracy, nature of the medical system in terms of priorities, NGOs, relationships and true connections being the answer.
Loads going on.
I think most of all, the idea of an author writing a book like this is becoming increasingly redundant in our modern society.
Which is mad in a sense. Literature has, unlike other art forms, the ability to put us in the mindset/thinking pattern of other people. To see the loss of that is horrific to say the least.
Far from perfect but it goes into places that no modern novelist would even touch.
While Sally Rooney is writing romance novels dressed up with references to Trinity to sound clever, this book covers an awful lot.
A lot of "based" ideas in here.
Things this book covers:
Mass immigration, abuse of the elderly, weak men and IVF treatment, AI, broken families and anhedonia, erosion of democracy, nature of the medical system in terms of priorities, NGOs, relationships and true connections being the answer.
Loads going on.
I think most of all, the idea of an author writing a book like this is becoming increasingly redundant in our modern society.
Which is mad in a sense. Literature has, unlike other art forms, the ability to put us in the mindset/thinking pattern of other people. To see the loss of that is horrific to say the least.