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Title: Dull and depressing
Review: Memoirs of more or less "ordinary" people can be interesting and involving as Frank McCourt, Rick Bragg and Russell Baker, among others, have proven.(I wish I could think of some women to add to this list). But simply naming obscure Irish poets and writers without fleshing them out for the reader leads to an attitude of "who cares?". There was not a single character in this book who was not a victim, predator, petty, repressed, deluded, or in some other way unlikeable. Unfortunately, this includes the author. I give an extra star for the occasional beautifully written passage; I wish there were more of them.
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