We're feeling the love this week, people, and from 'Ireland's biggest-selling weekly magazine' (™) the RTE Guide at that. The gist of their review of The Big O runs thusly: "A smart, cynical, twist-tastic romp about a disparate group of good, bad and ugly types that is just crying out for a movie treatment ... Message to Paddy Breathnach: read this and go eat Hollywood." Paddy Breathnach? Y'mean Paddy Breathnach of I Went Down fame? Criminy! They still haven't hoisted it onto the books section of the RTE website yet, but we're not greedy - we're just going to bask in the moment. Like, c'mon, it was the Guide fer Chrissakes ...
Monday, May 21, 2007
The Embiggened O # 1,007: In Which We Discover It's Actually Possible To Bust A Lung Blowing Your Own Trumpet
We're feeling the love this week, people, and from 'Ireland's biggest-selling weekly magazine' (™) the RTE Guide at that. The gist of their review of The Big O runs thusly: "A smart, cynical, twist-tastic romp about a disparate group of good, bad and ugly types that is just crying out for a movie treatment ... Message to Paddy Breathnach: read this and go eat Hollywood." Paddy Breathnach? Y'mean Paddy Breathnach of I Went Down fame? Criminy! They still haven't hoisted it onto the books section of the RTE website yet, but we're not greedy - we're just going to bask in the moment. Like, c'mon, it was the Guide fer Chrissakes ...
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Declan Burke has published a number of novels, the most recent of which is ABSOLUTE ZERO COOL. As a journalist and critic, he writes and broadcasts on books and film for a variety of media outlets, including the Irish Times, RTE, the Irish Examiner and the Sunday Independent. He has an unfortunate habit of speaking about himself in the third person. All views expressed here are his own and are very likely to be contrary.
George Zip says...
ReplyDeletePaddy Breathnach? More of a Joe Comerford fan myself. Have you seen Waterbags? No? I don't think he has either.