Vincent reviewed At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
Review of 'At Swim-Two-Birds' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
I don't know how I slogged through the first half. Whether because I'm not familiar at all with Irish folklore, or because I wasn't reading it in my native language, but the whole Sweeney-thing and hopping-from-tree-to-tree and recounting of other haphazard stories did nothing for me. I somewhat liked the story of the characters interacting with their writer, but in the end the book felt to me to be about 50 pages worth of interesting storylines, most of it in the second half, and the rest filler content that I could not make heads or tails of.
Who knows, maybe I just wasn't ready for this book yet.
