Aidan McCourt Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Aidan McCourt

@MaryKenny4 @_internalexile @carolinemadden2 @writing_ie I’d have to admit that the vast majority of books, fiction or non-fiction, I’ve read were written by men. Off the top of my head, SPQR by Mary Beard and The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin come to mind, but I’d struggle to go too far beyond that.

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Came upon the Granada Television’s early 1980s adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited on Virgin Three. Jeremy Irons et al. I’ve watched it through before and will probably do so again. I doubt if there’s anyone in tv production capable of producing such a series now.

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La Disparition, a 300-page novel from 1969 by Georges Perec, avoids completely the use of the letter ‘e’, as do four English language translations, including A Void by Gilbert Adair, for which he won the Scott Moncrieff Prize in 1995. Quit rmarkabl.https://t.co/PltDaWnX1q

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Pro-life people occasionally put up a photo of Margaret Sanger addressing a KKK rally. A co-founder with her of the American Birth Control League, which later became Planned Parenthood, KKK member Lothrop Stoddard, had an even more interesting life story.https://t.co/sq6c9WlCnH

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‘The death toll thus stands at a minimum of 45 million excess deaths … Some historians speculate that the true figure stands as high as 50 to 60 million people’. Frank Dikötter, Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962., page 333. https://t.co/lauYrBerjI

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@_internalexile @MaryKenny4 @carolinemadden2 @writing_ie Flann O’Brien’s At Swim Two Birds is said to have a Joycean influence and Joyce himself praised it. To me it is his cleverest work but his least enjoyable. I suppose it depends on what one is looking for from a novel.

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