So, I forced marched my way through this book after the first maybe 25%.TMoK is a 'bodice ripper' or 'true romance' dressed up as something more. And told from the frustrated but virtuous male point of view. All this sleeping together nude, but such a gentleman.All this self searching of his m...
". . .every legend and all mythologies exist to teach us how to run our days. In kind fashion. A loving way. But there's no story, no matter how ancient, as important as one's own. So if we're to live good lives, we have to tell ourselves our own story. In a good way. A way that's decent to ourse...
Part way through this book I realised that Delaney had written another book, Venetia Kelly's Travelling Show. I felt that perhaps I should have read the earlier book first, but not having done so the Last Storyteller had to stand on its own. It didn't quite, for Venetia also occupies some of th...
Delaney's use of voice in this novel is excellent, as is the massive amount of local flavor with which he imbues his writing. That's the best I can say about this book. As you probably already know, Ireland attempts to tell the story of Ireland (surprise, surprise): about half the novel is a fram...