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1. The Guts by Roddy Doyle

Sun Sep 27, 2015, 04:34 PM

Sep 2015

I have read some of Mr. Doyle's books before including The Barrytown Trilogy of The Commitments, The Snapper and The Van which were made into movies.. The Guts features the same working class family, the Rabbitte's maybe 20 years after the band fell apart (the Commitments). Jimmy Rabbitte Jr. has been diagnosed with colon cancer and is in a funk.

This book is written in the same Dublin working class Anglo/Irish slang with lots of scatological words as many of Doyle's other novels. It promises to be as humorous as the The Barrytown Trilogy was. I just started it and already I was made to laugh even though the subject is serious.

BTW- I just had a colonoscopy Friday where they removed and sent one polyp for biopsy. I don't know the results yet, but this book may be closer to home then is comfortable.

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What are you reading this week of September 27, 2015? [View all] hermetic Sep 2015 OP

The Guts by Roddy Doyle TexasProgresive Sep 2015 #1

I like it when I am made to laugh. Good luck on your test results, TexasProgresive. Enthusiast Sep 2015 #3

That (osteonecrosis) sounds scary TexasProgresive Sep 2015 #4

I was deep in the woods when I discovered it. I was deer hunting and it started to get dark. Enthusiast Sep 2015 #5

I take it that the bone at the hip just died from lack of blood. TexasProgresive Sep 2015 #6

That's what happens, the bone just dies. Enthusiast Sep 2015 #7

My husband had necrosis Worried senior Sep 2015 #9

Dang! He has had a rough time of it. Enthusiast Sep 2015 #10

Hello, everyone! Thank you for the thread, hermetic. Enthusiast Sep 2015 #2

Finished reading Steven Wise's book, Sing for Us, which I like very much. japple Sep 2015 #8