You can't fool the children of the revulsion
It is with great interest I note that The Pope's Children by David McWilliams has become the Publishers' Book of the Year, for the reason that:"The Pope's Children has simply been a publishing phenomenon. We can't recall the last time we had to reprint a book so frequently and so frantically. "
Does this not tell us more about the state of the nation than the contents of the book itself?
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posted by Admin @ 1:52 AM
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I agree with your point that the reprinting of this book has more to do with the state of the nation than the contents of the book.
I read this book a few months ago after a friend gave it to me on her last visit to see me in Spain (where I live). I had heard none of the hype and in fact the book stayed on the shelf for quite a while before I happened upon it.
I was exhilarated by the opening chapters feeling that this was a book that I had been waiting for. A book that had it's finger on the pulse of the Irish nation, A book that could summarise the state of my generation in an Ireland I left a in '97, just as the Celtic Tiger began to roar.
McWilliams talent is his ability to coin a phrase and convert the staid dry world of social comment and economic analysis into a page turning Davinci Code of a book.
McWilliams sugar does help the medicine go down. Sadly though, the final chapters became hard going, like so many chocolates on on a Christmas day.
Interested to hear how this book had been received in Ireland I called a few of the Pope's children. Yes they had all heard of it, of course. And they had all purchased it. It was on every bedside table or coffee table. "Yes I am reading it", "I'll have to get into reading it", " I haven't had a minute to read it".
All in all, very few people had read it. This shed some light on the Popes children for me.
We know what we should read, should have read, should do, but we often don't have time nor the real urge to do it. We are collecting modern day football cards. "Which ones have you got?"
Alas, perhaps the Pope's Children are indeed a flock after all.
I agree with your point that the reprinting of this book has more to do with the state of the nation than the contents of the book.
I read this book a few months ago after a friend gave it to me on her last visit to see me in Spain (where I live). I had heard none of the hype and in fact the book stayed on the shelf for quite a while before I happened upon it.
I was exhilarated by the opening chapters feeling that this was a book that I had been waiting for. A book that had it's finger on the pulse of the Irish nation, A book that could summarise the state of my generation in an Ireland I left a in '97, just as the Celtic Tiger began to roar.
McWilliams talent is his ability to coin a phrase and convert the staid dry world of social comment and economic analysis into a page turning Davinci Code of a book.
McWilliams sugar does help the medicine go down. Sadly though, the final chapters became hard going, like so many chocolates on on a Christmas day.
Interested to hear how this book had been received in Ireland I called a few of the Pope's children. Yes they had all heard of it, of course. And they had all purchased it. It was on every bedside table or coffee table. "Yes I am reading it", "I'll have to get into reading it", " I haven't had a minute to read it".
All in all, very few people had read it. This shed some light on the Popes children for me.
We know what we should read, should have read, should do, but we often don't have time nor the real urge to do it. We are collecting modern day football cards. "Which ones have you got?"
Alas, perhaps the Pope's Children are indeed a flock after all.
I agree with your point that the reprinting of this book has more to do with the state of the nation than the contents of the book.
I read this book a few months ago after a friend gave it to me on her last visit to see me in Spain (where I live). I had heard none of the hype and in fact the book stayed on the shelf for quite a while before I happened upon it.
I was exhilarated by the opening chapters feeling that this was a book that I had been waiting for. A book that had it's finger on the pulse of the Irish nation, A book that could summarise the state of my generation in an Ireland I left a in '97, just as the Celtic Tiger began to roar.
McWilliams talent is his ability to coin a phrase and convert the staid dry world of social comment and economic analysis into a page turning Davinci Code of a book.
McWilliams sugar does help the medicine go down. Sadly though, the final chapters became hard going, like so many chocolates on on a Christmas day.
Interested to hear how this book had been received in Ireland I called a few of the Pope's children. Yes they had all heard of it, of course. And they had all purchased it. It was on every bedside table or coffee table. "Yes I am reading it", "I'll have to get into reading it", " I haven't had a minute to read it".
All in all, very few people had read it. This shed some light on the Popes children for me.
We know what we should read, should have read, should do, but we often don't have time nor the real urge to do it. We are collecting modern day football cards. "Which ones have you got?"
Alas, perhaps the Pope's Children are indeed a flock after all.
I agree with your point that the reprinting of this book has more to do with the state of the nation than the contents of the book.
I read this book a few months ago after a friend gave it to me on her last visit to see me in Spain (where I live). I had heard none of the hype and in fact the book stayed on the shelf for quite a while before I happened upon it.
I was exhilarated by the opening chapters feeling that this was a book that I had been waiting for. A book that had it's finger on the pulse of the Irish nation, A book that could summarise the state of my generation in an Ireland I left a in '97, just as the Celtic Tiger began to roar.
McWilliams talent is his ability to coin a phrase and convert the staid dry world of social comment and economic analysis into a page turning Davinci Code of a book.
McWilliams sugar does help the medicine go down. Sadly though, the final chapters became hard going, like so many chocolates on on a Christmas day.
Interested to hear how this book had been received in Ireland I called a few of the Pope's children. Yes they had all heard of it, of course. And they had all purchased it. It was on every bedside table or coffee table. "Yes I am reading it", "I'll have to get into reading it", " I haven't had a minute to read it".
All in all, very few people had read it. This shed some light on the Popes children for me.
We know what we should read, should have read, should do, but we often don't have time nor the real urge to do it. We are collecting modern day football cards. "Which ones have you got?"
Alas, perhaps the Pope's Children are indeed a flock after all.
I agree with your point that the reprinting of this book has more to do with the state of the nation than the contents of the book.
I read this book a few months ago after a friend gave it to me on her last visit to see me in Spain (where I live). I had heard none of the hype and in fact the book stayed on the shelf for quite a while before I happened upon it.
I was exhilarated by the opening chapters feeling that this was a book that I had been waiting for. A book that had it's finger on the pulse of the Irish nation, A book that could summarise the state of my generation in an Ireland I left a in '97, just as the Celtic Tiger began to roar.
McWilliams talent is his ability to coin a phrase and convert the staid dry world of social comment and economic analysis into a page turning Davinci Code of a book.
McWilliams sugar does help the medicine go down. Sadly though, the final chapters became hard going, like so many chocolates on on a Christmas day.
Interested to hear how this book had been received in Ireland I called a few of the Pope's children. Yes they had all heard of it, of course. And they had all purchased it. It was on every bedside table or coffee table. "Yes I am reading it", "I'll have to get into reading it", " I haven't had a minute to read it".
All in all, very few people had read it. This shed some light on the Popes children for me.
We know what we should read, should have read, should do, but we often don't have time nor the real urge to do it. We are collecting modern day football cards. "Which ones have you got?"
Alas, perhaps the Pope's Children are indeed a flock after all.
I agree with your point that the reprinting of this book has more to do with the state of the nation than the contents of the book.
I read this book a few months ago after a friend gave it to me on her last visit to see me in Spain (where I live). I had heard none of the hype and in fact the book stayed on the shelf for quite a while before I happened upon it.
I was exhilarated by the opening chapters feeling that this was a book that I had been waiting for. A book that had it's finger on the pulse of the Irish nation, A book that could summarise the state of my generation in an Ireland I left a in '97, just as the Celtic Tiger began to roar.
McWilliams talent is his ability to coin a phrase and convert the staid dry world of social comment and economic analysis into a page turning Davinci Code of a book.
McWilliams sugar does help the medicine go down. Sadly though, the final chapters became hard going, like so many chocolates on on a Christmas day.
Interested to hear how this book had been received in Ireland I called a few of the Pope's children. Yes they had all heard of it, of course. And they had all purchased it. It was on every bedside table or coffee table. "Yes I am reading it", "I'll have to get into reading it", " I haven't had a minute to read it".
All in all, very few people had read it. This shed some light on the Popes children for me.
We know what we should read, should have read, should do, but we often don't have time nor the real urge to do it. We are collecting modern day football cards. "Which ones have you got?"
Alas, perhaps the Pope's Children are indeed a flock after all.
I see, but are you proving a separate point by posting it six times, a comment on the re-prints of the book itself perhaps?
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