Comments on: At Swim-Two-Birds is Go!

By: twomoons

twomoons — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:07:21 +0000

Argh!! ASTB sucks…does Gabrirel have any idea how much we think of him? If not, we are proving it RIGHT now, sticking to that damn book!!! I thought JOyce’s Portrait of an Artist was bad…

By: Lozzie

Lozzie — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:07:32 +0000

BillyBoo you’re in good company here as far as liking Gabriel Byrne is concerned.

By: Stella

Stella — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:15:23 +0000

billyBOO, I sent you an email about joining the Byrneholics Forum. Looking forward to chatting with you in the Forum! Stella

By: billyBOO

billyBOO — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:59:20 +0000

hi guys.. About the ASTB, im still searching for it all around the bookstore here(brunei darussalam) and it seems like around next two weeks till i get my hands on it! So can you all please give me some time before you guys start to do anything.. But if you all think thats gonna be troublesome for u all, just continue without me, alright? Btw, you all are welcome to add my email (removed by admin for privacy purposes). I need someone to talk to anyway about gabriel. All of my friends at school think im weird for loving him. They just cant understand it.

By: Stella

Stella — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:40:09 +0000

Count me IN! I just bought it at Amazon and it will be here in a couple of days. I’m ready to start reading. Doing a little background research on it now (well, what can I say, I’m a librarian after all) and am well intrigued! If we stick together, I think we can make our way through it and have fun on the journey.

Ok. I just set up a new forum called The Book Club and a subforum in it called At Swim-Two-Birds. These are under the For the Fans category in the main Forum. I started a topic thread too. I’ve been busy and I don’t even have the book yet! Woo hoo. Looking forward to some grand discussions!

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By: twomoons

twomoons — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:11:12 +0000

OK, let’s fly with the “Gabriel Byrne Book Club”; homebase to be at Byrneholics!! Stella et al, you have done such a great job and this is really the best place for it. If it drags more of the loyal HBO gang over here, then all the better. I’m sure things will creap onto that site, and we can always send each other to either site or copy/paste some intriguing comment(s). But if a core group of us stay here, that would work best, I think.

For those who are just buying it, we can wait a few weeks, then set a date. I will need all the time I can get cause I only manage to read a few pages of anything in the evening, and then the eyes go south on me. I just retrieved it from my library, and will get started tonight, but I have The Wishing Year on the go, and want to get it done soon.

I have read NTtoL, and would be very happy to discuss/review it after this one. Funny thing is that I left my book group because I felt that I wanted to explore more Irish/English literature, including poetry and the classics, and try to explain that to a group who has no idea what was motivting me!!

Good night all. Crazy night raising teenagers has gotten the better of me!

TwoMoons (also a GREAT book you all have to read)

By: Lozzie

Lozzie — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:21:16 +0000

I am absolutely 100% up for the book club idea, please count me in. I’m reading ASTB at the moment.

In fact, there are lots of books I’d love to discuss in depth with you guys. Everything from Raymond Carver to ‘Night Train To Lisbon’

By: Noraa

Noraa — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:45:52 +0000

I can see that the book was translated into Norwegian in 1998!

O’Brien, Flann
På svøm-to-fugler / Flann O’Brien ; oversatt av Bjørn Alex Herrman og
med etterord av Robert Ferguson. – [Oslo] : Bokvennen, 1998. – 262 s.
– (Klassikerserien moderne tider ; 34). – (823[S])
Originaltittel: At Swim-two-birds. – Flann O’Brien er psevdonym for
Brian O’Nolan
ISBN 82-7488-090-0 (ib.) : Nkr 345.00

As you (maybe) can see from the (Norwegian) post from my library the real name of the author is Brian O’Nolan.

I think I will read the book in English, and order it today.

By: Stella

Stella — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:35:45 +0000

Count me in for the book club. There is a thread at the Forum about Books already. We can jump over there. I’m buying it now (sorry to say I don’t own it yet!).