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audreybrown's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
2.75
broo23's review against another edition
4.0
well done serial novel with very different voices but a little hard to follow...!
psalmcat's review
4.0
Pretty funny, not to mention a bit nonsensical. Set in Dublin, and actually very hard to describe. The plot revolved around the accidental killing of a man who turns out to have the last unpublished work of James Joyce, and who also may have created either an anti-aging cream or a paper-aging formula.
sentient_meat's review against another edition
4.0
15 Irish writers writing a novel about that leads to a lost Joyce manuscript. What's not to love? A fun light read, and a great way to meet some new (to oneself) Irish writers.
laguiri's review
3.0
This book is unavoidably rambling, as the authors of each chapter make things harder and harder for whoever comes next. Don't expect a cute, nostalgic or commedy-of-manners Irish caricature, although the kind of humour is definitely recognisable. It is also a lot more violent than I expected, so it reads sometimes like a novelised Quentin Tarantino movie, making fun of its own gore and not even trying to make any sense.
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