Ghosts and Lightning

from biblioholic29

I tried hard to like this book. Scratch that, I tried hard to get through this book, however, after 150 pages, I've given up. It's hard to say what it is that turning me off. The lack of a discernible plot line? The weird dashes to denote conversation instead of quotation marks? The incomprehensi...

from Mmccullough

A modern day Irish version of Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat. Heavy on the Irish dialect, slang and swearing. After his mother's unexpected death, Denny inherits her house along with his heavy drinking and partying sister. Denny takes trips throughout the countryside with a few friends while trying to...

from pastrydeity

The style of writing in this book took me a little getting used to at first, but it was worth it. It tells the story of Denny Cullen on his return to his late mother's house, and the self-destructive ruts that he and many of his friends and family are trapped in. I spent a lot of the book wanting...