Seamus Kelly answers 13 questions in a Booker's Dozen.
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SK: Reheated Cabbage (a book of stories) by Irvine Welsh.
TPQ: Best book you have ever read?
SK: Trainspotting.
TPQ: Book most cherished as a child?
SK: James And The Giant Peach.
TPQ: Favourite childhood author?
SK: Roald Dahl.
TPQ: First book to really own you?
SK: Treasure Island.
TPQ: Favourite male and female author?
SK: Irvine Welsh and Enid Blyton.
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A Berlin Book Tower in memory of the Nazi book burning.
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TPQ: A preference for fact or fiction?
SK: Fact.
TPQ: Any book you steadfastly refuse to read?
SK: Roy Keane's autobiography. I’m still to this day sour over how that langball handled Saipan. Robbed us of a decent World Cup run and a memorable summer.
TPQ: Any author you point blank refuse to read?
SK: Can’t think of any.
TPQ: A book to share with somebody so that they would more fully understand you?
SK: Papillion.
TPQ: Last book you gave as a present?
SK: City of Bohane by Kevin Barry.
TPQ: Book you would most like to see turned into a movie?
SK: The Catalpa Rescue.
TPQ: A "must read" you intend chalking up before you die?
SK: The Count Of Monte Christo and Ulysses.
⏩Seamus Kelly is a Limerick hurling fanatic, posing as a carpenter in Sydney.
Seamus - thanks for this. I read Papillion while I was a 17 year old prisoner. Was enthralled by it. Couldn't get into Banco a couple of years later.
ReplyDeleteLoved that comment on Roy Keane - Langball!!!