I got Screwed at Crimefest 2013, plus DBB goes to Ireland
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| Above, Muiredach's Cross, Monasterboice, County Louth, Ireland. Below/right, Ha'Penny Bridge, Dublin. Photos by your humble blogkeeper |
Eoin Colfer's Screwed, the second "adult" crime novel by the author of the Artemis Fowl series, Half Moon Investigations, and other Y.A. big sellers, was a welcome find in my Crimefest 2013 book bag.A few chapters into this joke-filled tale about a dodgy nightclub owner in New Jersey, I'm finding much to answer anyone who doubts that jokes and crime are incompatible.
Meanwhile, enjoy these views from Colfer's native land.
© Peter Rozovsky 2013
Labels: comic crime fiction, Crimefest, Crimefest 2013, Dublin, Eoin Colfer, images, Ireland, Monasterboice, what I did on my vacation
posted by Peter Rozovsky at 6:13 PM
5 Comments:
I have both these Colfer books and am looking forward to them, especially now I hear they are funny.
As for "cool American speech," perhaps in your reading you will be spared the word "like," which has become an obligatory (nearly) every-other-word in speech by the under 25 crowd. Enjoy the land that Queen Elizabeth I hoped (but failed) to subdue. Odds, isn't it, that QE1's successors persisted in her folly?
Seana, Colfer is one of the funnier writers you'll read, no matter your age. The opening of Half Moon Investigations is especially good.
R.T., like has been abrading the ear drums Americans intermittently at least since the 1950s. Some of its first utterers are probably well into their eighties now, and I wonder if they say things like "I'm, like, going in for a hip replacement next month."
R.T., the Irish don't muck like Oliver Cromwell, either, but Queen Elizabeth II did win props in some quarters for her visit here.
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