“Declan Burke is his own genre. The Lammisters dazzles, beguiles and transcends. Virtuoso from start to finish.” – Eoin McNamee “This bourbon-smooth riot of jazz-age excess, high satire and Wodehouse flamboyance is a pitch-perfect bullseye of comic brilliance.” – Irish Independent Books of the Year 2019 “This rapid-fire novel deserves a place on any bookshelf that grants asylum to PG Wodehouse, Flann O’Brien or Kyril Bonfiglioli.” – Eoin Colfer, Guardian Best Books of the Year 2019 “The funniest book of the year.” – Sunday Independent “Declan Burke is one funny bastard. The Lammisters ... conducts a forensic analysis on the anatomy of a story.” – Liz Nugent “Burke’s exuberant prose takes centre stage … He plays with language like a jazz soloist stretching the boundaries of musical theory.” – Totally Dublin “A mega-meta smorgasbord of inventive language ... linguistic verve not just on every page but every line.” – Irish Times “Above all, The Lammisters gives the impression of a writer enjoying himself. And so, dear reader, should you.” – Sunday Times “A triumph of absurdity, which burlesques the literary canon from Shakespeare, Pope and Austen to Flann O’Brien … The Lammisters is very clever indeed.” – The Guardian
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hi was just passing randomly
how different lives can be!
my life... your life...
both bloggers... there the similarity ends!!
take it e.z
gledwood "vol 2"...
Vincent Banville, unlike his bad ol' bro, is on my "to-read" list. The dude was recommended to me by Dermot Bolger (no slouch himself, in the world of Irish crime fiction) years ago.
Man, it pisses me off that piles of reviewers are heaped on John Banville's Christine Falls Bandwagon-of-Praise like so many plague-ridden corpses.
It pisses me off that John kicks Vincent's stick-figure ass. http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=%22vincent+banville%22&word2=%22John+banville%22
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