Sez the lad who wrote a Maeve Binchy pastiche and managed to persuade people it was literary fiction 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 https://t.co/YTpCavZIpT
— Marian Keyes (@MarianKeyes) July 22, 2019
Brooklyn is better than anything that absolute charlatan Marian Keyes has written. pic.twitter.com/k1R8b5ogj8
— The Man in the Black Pyjamas (@pyjamas_black) July 23, 2019
Oh.
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I hope Ms Keyes’ writing is sharper than her wit, and I use the word lightly. Tobín has binned better than anything she’s had published.
Her cookbook is, it must be said, excellent. Not wild on her novels, mind.
She wrote a cook book did she Mill?
Ah here
Shur I’ll have to read her so
Toibin was being a pretentious gobpoo in the first place, to be honest. I also have to ask how would you know he’s “binned better than anything she’s had published” when you you appear to have never read any of her work?
What halfwit would follow anyone on twitter ? let alone Marian Keyes ?
Hilarious how a woman daring to make a pretty funny dig at Toibin is immediately met by the cynical male gatekeepers of literature telling her how terrible she is, apropos of nothing
I’d say hysterical rather than cynical. And not funny hysterical, either.
Whether you enjoy reading a Nobel Laureate’s novels or a good thriller, it makes you no better than anyone else. Reading is a hobby – you should enjoy it, not suffer through.
I do remember trying to read a Tóibín book once and happily “forgetting” to finish it halfway through.
Never read a Keyes book either, though I like her wit and lack of snobbery.
Keyes can dish it but can’t take it. I recall her gushing all over Marian Finucane during an interview a while back, only to decide in hindsight that she had been interrogated by the harridan from hell, and lashing out at her on Twitter.
She really gets into the Silly Season swing of things
Last year
Wasn’t there some pretty intolerant sniping about the Presidential
I dunno about this load of oul’ handbags
Since I’m no one to talk about other people’s writings
But Brooklyn was a Hollywood buy and got full production weight and budget
And a proper red carpet rollout
And it’s lead an Oscar Nomination
I suppose I am qualified to pass a remark
Or a whole load of them
About results and commercial outcomes
As far as Colm Tobin’s work goes, I wasn’t crazy about Brooklyn but really enjoyed The Master. Whatever gets people reading is fine by me but I’d have to pass on Marian Keyes. Too wind baggy.
I couldn’t tell ya
I’ve never read either of their works
Saw Brooklyn alright
I’ve seen worse
Might you the teenager says it’s one of her favourite fillums
Humph I think Colm is our greatest prize-writer