"The Snapper" is the first Roddy Doyle book I have read and it will definitely be my last. Captured almost exclusively in dialogue, the celebrated Doyle may be giving us a real slice of Irish working class life,  but I didn't enjoy one moment of it. Perhaps the setting is too alien to  me. The profanities that litter the lines and the heavy of vernacular may  be authentic and true to the milieu, but I found it all too much. Sorry, I  know this is a minority opinion but Doyle's exalted literary status escapes  me.