Stuff what annoys me. And a good book.

[odycee]

I've been very un-updatey this weekend haven't I. Probably because I've got nothing exciting to say!

I finished reading At Swim, Two Boys on Sunday. Loved it. What a fabulous book. It took me two days to get round to reading the last fifty pages because I knew it couldn't end well and couldn't stand to read it. And I was right. Gah. But it couldn't have ended any other way really.

I am pissed off with NTL yet again. The channels have been disappearing one by one and what we do have is freezing. An engineer was meant to come out this evening and surprise, surprise, they couldn't come. And so I couldn't watch Smallville because E4 disappeared today and so has Sky One. Fuckers. I think Sky may be getting a new customer.

And now Semagic won't post this. Bugger it.

Comments

[danachan.livejournal.com]

*kicks the things wot annoy you*

Also, At Swim, Two Boys was fantastic. It doesn't end well, no (I mean, that happy ending thing, and all, and how it doesn't have one), but the book is just... well... good. I should read it again.

[odycee.livejournal.com]

Yay for kicking annoying stuff. *joins in the kicking*

I knew there wasn't going to be a happy ending and I don't think the book would have the impact it did if it had have had one - it would have been false. The saddest thing is what Jim became, even though he hated it and knew Doyler would have done too. But you can't blame him. It also made me realise that I really ought to know more about the recent history of Ireland than I do.