Normal People (1 Viewer)

[7 - No tomorrow]

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"scorn the maternal and natal instincts."

I fecking ask you.

 

[ann post]

Periodic 'incel bait is designed to be outrage shared' reminder post.

 

[ann post]

I'm wondering if there'll be a grunge-like mass-signings/adaptation of all the young, sad Irish girl authors who have followed in Rooney's wake - Nicole Flattery, Naoise Dolan, there's probably more I've missed. Life awash with meaningless sex and crippling depression, it's never been better to be Irish!

Who will be the 'bush' of the rooney era? But yeah i think it'll be on the shelves for xmas now that you've brought it up

 

[ann post]

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[Cormcolash]

NOOOOOOOOOO! Just because one thing from an author makes a successful film/show doesn’t mean you literally have to make everything else by them. It’s the Stephen King effect. They will adapt any old garbage he scribbled down because his name is on it

Mr Mercedes is pretty good though

 

[jonah]

Watched the first 2, its decent but a bit slow. The super weighted down seriousness of it was something that didnt bother me in the novel - which I liked but didnt love, but she is a great writer, it's just not that great a story - but bored me a little here on screen. And I'm like, queen of the heavy emo nothingness.

But yeah not bad will keep watching. Bizarre it's so long, when they announced it, I'd presumed a 4 parter

 

[sleepy]

Mr Mercedes is pretty good though

I haven't watched or read Normal People but we've just finished watching Mr. Mercedes and loved it

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

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[Cormcolash]

Haha it's so fucking cringe. Their idea of a party is to sit in the living room drinking wine and talking shite. Even Trinity students aren't that fucking lame.

 

[Cormcolash]

Actually LOL wine wine wine always wine, and all of them drink wine. Where's the fucking cans? Wankers

 

[Anthony]

Do you think this exact conversation in going on in every city where every series is ever set forever?

 

[Lili Marlene]

Haha it's so fucking cringe. Their idea of a party is to sit in the living room drinking wine and talking shite. Even Trinity students aren't that fucking lame.

Ah they are

 

[chris d]

haha

 

[Space]

Actually LOL wine wine wine always wine, and all of them drink wine. Where's the fucking cans? Wankers

You'd think they'd have one lad drinking a soft drink with a dodgy Belfast accent. For realism.

 

[ann post]

This would have been the year to be a young lad in a gaa top at festivals.

 

[Cormcolash]

You'd think they'd have one lad drinking a soft drink with a dodgy Belfast accent. For realism.

EXACTLY!!

 

[GO]

theres too much fucking riding in it. And I hate all the characters .

But fuck it we're in a pandemic

 

[hugh]

Finished the book last night. It really is very good. For whatever reason, I rarely find myself reading novels which are (a) about relationships and (b) set in Ireland, so there might be a certain novelty factor there. In other words, the complaint that "this is a story we have heard so many times before" is not really one that applies to my experience of it. It takes quite a dark turn around 2/3 of the way through so it will be interesting to see how the TV series handles this. Some of its very insightful and I found myself thinking about it afterwards (which is not often the case). The class thing is a definite central core of the story but Hives is right in that it broadens out a lot to encompass more general things about how people communicate (or fail to communicate) with each other. It also zips along .... which helps a lot.

 

[hugh]

I still find myself immensely irritated by Irish Twitter going into paroxysms of outrage and disbelief at any criticism of Sally Rooney though.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Well, at the risk of sounding full of myself (come on you pricks, say something)- it's a novel, and a decent one at that; and any decent novel cannot be reduced to being "about" one or two single things. So both "it's a novel about class" and "it's not a novel about class" are incorrect through omission.

I mean, it's a novel about relationships, and insecurities, and Ireland, and class, and cliques, and sex, and loneliness, and depression, and romance, and language, and peer pressure, and university, and communication, and so on