The Butcher Boy

[holyzombiejesus]

I just finished this, what a horrible book!

[dontpaintyourteeth]

Horrible meaning bad or horrible meaning unpleasant

[holyzombiejesus]

Unpleasant. Reminded me of the film Bad Boy Bubby.

[madhair60]

perpetuates negative stereotyping of mental butchers

[AllisonSays]

Good book, as is The Dead School. He's got a real sense for the dark brutal currents of small town Irish life, I think.

His latest one in kind of psuedo blank verse about Irish immigrants in London threatened to be right up my street for a while but I thought it was kind of bad in the end. I don't know, really, it was alright but I thought some lazy writing and clunky phrasing was concealed by the odd form and it didn't have anywhere near the horrible intensity of Butcher Boy. I feel like Pat McCabe used to DJ in a pub near my house in Dublin but this could be a totally false memory, a lie someone told me, or whatever.

[dontpaintyourteeth]

Reading this now

[dontpaintyourteeth]

hmm yes this is rather grim isn't it

[George White]

The film has one of the great screen nonces in Milo O'Shea's priest with a bonnet fetish.